Managing Your Site

Managing groups

Groups define the sections of your site and control how articles are organised in navigation menus.

To create a group: Open your site in Scribe CMS and click New Group. Give it a name — this becomes the section heading on your website.

To reorder groups: Drag groups into the order you want. Connected websites reflect this order in navigation menus.

To rename a group: Click the group name to edit it. The change takes effect on your website immediately.

Caution

Renaming a group changes its URL segment on your website (e.g. /writing/ might become /notes/). Old URLs will break unless your website is configured with redirects. Check with your developer before renaming a group that already has published articles.

Managing articles

To move an article between groups: Drag the article to a different group. The article remains published — only its group changes.

To unpublish an article: Remove it from its group. It becomes Unpublished — still associated with the site but no longer visible on any website. You can re-publish it at any time by adding it back to a group.

To delete an article: Open the article and click Delete. Deleted articles are permanently removed from your account.

To edit a published article: Open it, make changes, and save. The updated content appears on connected websites immediately — no need to re-publish.

Site settings

Open your site and click Settings to update:

• Title — the name of the publication
• Description — a short summary used in RSS feeds and search results
• Domain — the domain of the website this site powers (e.g. alice.example.com)
• URL prefix — if your blog lives at /blog/ rather than at the root, set this to blog
• Splash image — a featured image for the site, used in social previews
• Logo — an image used in website headers. Scribe also uploads a square version as the publication’s icon, which Bluesky-compatible reading apps use to identify your site.

Subscriber notifications

When a reader clicks the Subscribe button on a site powered by Scribe, they are added to the subscriber list for that publication. When you publish a new article, Scribe can send each subscriber a Bluesky direct message with a link to the article.

How it works

1. You publish an article as normal — click Publish, choose a group, and click Publish in the modal.
2. A “Notify subscribers?” prompt appears immediately after publish.
3. Click Notify subscribers to send a direct message to every current subscriber, or Skip to publish without notifying.

The message includes the article title, a link to read it, and an unsubscribe link so readers can opt out at any time.

Disabling the prompt

If you prefer to notify subscribers manually rather than on every publish, you can silence the automatic prompt per site:

1. Open your site in Scribe CMS.
2. Click Configure.
3. Under Notifications, uncheck Show “Notify subscribers?” prompt after publishing.
4. Save.

With the prompt silenced, you can still notify subscribers at any time from the site management view.

Subscribers and unsubscribing

Readers can unsubscribe by clicking the Subscribe button again on any page where it appears — it acts as a toggle. They are shown a confirmation before their subscription is removed. Every notification message also includes an unsubscribe link for readers who prefer that route.

Multiple sites

You can manage multiple sites from a single Scribe account. Each site has its own groups and articles, and each can power a different domain.

To create a second site, click New Site from the site list. Articles belong to exactly one site — you cannot share a single article across multiple sites.