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 game

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

Preview the blog post

• Save
• Publish
• Publish it during a release
• Publish it during a new release
• Type a new release name. No spaces or fancy chars. Exemple: "wcc1".
• Add to release
• Go to https://lichess.org/blog?ref=wcc1 where you replace "wcc1" with your release name.

The second time, don't make a new release, but reuse the existing one.

Publish the blog post

When everything is ready and the post was reviewed by other team members, click Planned releases on the left side.

• Publish
• Apply now
• Publish

Modify a published blog post

Make modifications to the document, then

• Save
• Publish
• Publish it now
• Publish