Getting Started Introduction and Basics

Introduction and Basics

Setka Editor is designed to create quality articles of different formats and complexity on an everyday basis. Create news articles, long reads, infographics, large affiliate pages with a personal design.

Setka Editor consists of two parts — Content Design System Manager (CDSM) and post editor.

CDSM defines Styles — appearance templates, corresponding to the corporate identity or brand book.

Editor uses styles from CDSM to create posts.

Table of contents

How Content Design System Manager (CDSM) and Editor are connected

Does Setka Editor HTML code affect your site?

Available sections

Styles

Layout Grids

CMS Integration

Posts

My Team

Editing posts

 

How Content Design System Manager (CDSM) and Editor are connected

Editor can work:

Before creating posts, you will need to configure Styles and Layout Grids, in accordance with the corporate identity. This process takes place in the CDSMin your Setka Account. Styles and Layout Grids will become available in the Editor upon completion.

All the settings from Styles and Layout Grids sections of your Setka Account will automatically sync with the editor integrated into your CMS. Content Design System Manager (CDSM) pushes these updates to domains set in the CMS Integration section.

 

Does Setka Editor HTML code affect your site?

By default, the HTML code of the post is placed in a container, that is isolated from the external elements of the site. We also name the CSS classes the way that they do not match the classes of your site. Thus, Setka Editor content does not affect your site in any way.

 

Available sections

Setka account contains:

 

Styles

Style is a unified way of formatting that includes fonts, text formats, text and background colors, indents, dividers, icons, and components. Style defines sets the general direction and canon of a publication, but you can change it in the editor, within the given framework: select various headers, text, and background colors, add animations, or other visual effects.

You can configure Styles in this section: create new, edit existing, enable or disable the display of styles in the editor.

More on editing styles

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Layout Grids

Modular grid organizes layout elements (text, headers, illustrations). The grid aligns these elements and ensures the integrity of the perception.

In the Layout Grid configurator you can create a grid, set options for its columns, gutters, and margins:

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Integrations

Configures the Setka Editor integration with your site. Will help to install Setka Editor CMS plugin or integrate the Editor with your custom CMS over API. Setka Editor license key is also located here. It is required for plugin activation or custom integration.

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Posts

Storage for posts made with the editor in Setka Design Cloud. Here you can edit existing posts and create new ones. Posts use styles and Layout Grids configured in Styles and Layout Grids sections.

Important note: the number of Design Cloud posts may be limited on some tiers.

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My Team

Managing a team of authors. Here you can grant access to your company account to several users: colleagues, freelancers, or clients.

More on team management

Important note: team management is not available on some tiers.

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Editing posts

With the styles and Layout Grids set up, you're ready to start creating posts. Go to Posts section in your Setka Account or create a new post from your CMS with integrated Setka Editor.

Helpful resources on how to create beautiful, well-read articles:

  • Setka Post Editor section in our Help Center — describes all types of interaction with the editor.
  • Tips section of Setka blog — contains many tips on post layouts and more.