Summary

With the Govstack content management system, you can add a page summary to each content page or outbound link on your website. The page summary provides an overall description of the information on the page and is used in multiple content components including:

• Subpage listing
• Related content
• Subcomponents within Pods

Add a summary to your page or outbound link

To add a Summary to your page or outbound link, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the page or outbound link in the Govstack back office
2. Select the 'Summary' tab located at the top of the interface
3. Insert a name in the 'Heading' field if required. The 'Heading' field will pull in the page name automatically if left blank, so is only required if the heading and page name differ
4. Insert a 'Secondary heading' if required
5. Insert the Summary description in the 'Text' field
6. Add a Summary 'Image' by selecting the '+' icon in the media picker and searching for an image from your 'Media' folders. Summary images are optional and can be turned off in the subpage listing component if required

Best practice for writing a page summary

Try to keep your summary descriptions the same length for each page. This will make it easier to format Subpage Listing components in the future.

How are page summaries used in Govstack?

Govstack's internal site search scans summaries to find content that a user is looking for when using the in-site search. The summary will display in the search results. To help users find the information they are looking for, it is best to include keywords in your summaries.

If a third-party site search provider is used, such as Google Programmable Search Engine or Cludo, those providers will use the SEO & Share tab's "Title" and "Description" properties instead. Learn how to add a page title and description.

Summaries are also used in various content components, such as Subpage Listings and Related Content sub-components within a Pod. These components will create clickable tiles on a content page that pull the page name and summary that you've written for each page or outbound link.