What is a Post?
Updated October 6th, 2020
This style guide covers content recommendations, style basics and features related to writing posts. Posts provide users with additional information about photos or historic sites on Urban Archive. Usually, they reference an event that was captured in the photograph or give users additional insight into the history of a location on the map. In any event, the post text is up to you, the creator, but here are examples we like if you’re looking for inspiration:
This post is granular and provides the history of a building.
This post describes what’s happening in a specific photograph.
This post relates to an event or person associated with the site.
What Posts Look Like
Posts appear under photos in Urban Archive. They can be pinned to a location page, as shown at left, and also appear below individual images.
Authorship
On any post you write, your organization’s name will be added to the bottom of the post to ensure proper accreditation.
Body
Your post should offer further context about the building, location, or event that is depicted in the image you’re attaching your post to. Unlike body text in stories, posts have no character limit. They can tell as much information about a site or image as you want.
Pinned Posts
Posts that are the first to be written about a location will be automatically pinned to the location page.
You can also see that each image with a blurb has a post associated with it.
