Writing and publishing lichess blog posts

Publish blog post with prismic.io

login to lichess.prismic.io.

Start a new blog post

• Write something
• Blog post

Write the blog post

• Fill in the title, and post body.
• Fill the content of the Metadata tab.
• Click the Save button often.
• Images must be resized before upload. 744px width max.

Careful with collaboration

prismic doesn't deal well with concurrent edits.

• Synchronize with the team (tell them when you start and stop editing)
• Always reload the page before you start editing a post, so you start from the latest version

Embed a study chapter

Use the study chapter URL as both the link text and URL.

Embed a game

Use the game URL as both the link text and URL.

Embed a table

Change text type to preformatted and start with "markdown". Then use the markdown table syntax.

Preview the blog post

Click the top-right round eye icon in prismic, then 'prod'

Publish the blog post

When everything is ready and the post was reviewed by other team members, click Publish , then

• Click Publish on top right
• Select Publish it now
• Click Publish

Modify a published blog post

Make modifications to the document, then

• Click Save
• Click Publish on top right
• Select Publish it now
• Click Publish

Writing documentation?

• Make sure your document is of type "Documentation"
• Publish as normal
• Use Settings -> Bookmarks to generate a lichess.org/page/slug URI for your document