Digistorm’s Newsletter add-on is a powerful tool designed to help schools create and manage engaging, visually appealing newsletters with ease. This add-on provides a seamless way to share school updates for prospective and current families by highlighting important news while maintaining a professional and cohesive design.
Newsletter key features
Configurable layout options – Customise the layout to suit your school’s specific needs. Choose between:
A single-page format displaying the entire newsletter in one view
An article-based format, where each article is displayed on a separate page
Multiple newsletter types – Create and manage different types of newsletters within the same add-on to cater to various audiences.
Categories and filtering – Easily organise, filter and search for newsletter articles by category
Engaging content options – Enhance articles with a variety of configurable content sections, including:
Rich text with multiple heading sizes, bold and italic formatting, and alignment options
Images and image galleries for a visually dynamic experience
Embedded videos for interactive storytelling
Testimonials and quotes to highlight key messages
Feature articles for important updates, such as a Principal’s Welcome
Seamless Craft CMS integration – Manage and update newsletters effortlessly through dedicated newsletter entries in Craft CMS.
Creating a Newsletter
Make sure Newsletters are enabled on your Digistorm website. You can check this by adding a section to your page. If Newsletter Listing is shown, newsletters have been successfully enabled.
Newsletter Terminology
Newsletter Articles refers to the articles you will add to build out your newsletter editions.
Newsletters refers to the editions. For example Newsletter 2, Week 2, Term 2, 2025. This is built from articles.
Newsletter Category refers to the newsletter. If your school is publishing multiple newsletters, for example a sport newsletter that is seperate to the main schools website, this is when you add a Newsletter Category.
Step one: Adding a Newsletter Category
Within Categories > Newsletter. Create the category. This is your newsletter. If you have multiple types of newsletters, this is where you will add them. For example, these might include your School Newsletter, Athletics Newsletter and Alumni Newsletter.
Step two: Creating Newsletter Articles
Navigate to Entries > Newsletter Article > + New entry.
Create your article by adding a title, excerpt and image.
For the Content Builder, similar to creating a regular content page, add the relevant sections to create an engaging article. Sections included for Newsletter articles include Gallery, Rich Text, Video and Quotes.
Once your article is complete, click > Save entry in the top right hand corner.
Continue to add articles following the same process until you’ve created all articles needed for your newsletter edition.
Step three: Creating Newsletter Editions
Navigate to Entries > Newsletters > New Entry
Title your newsletter, add the category of the newsletter (Eg Main school newsletter).
Add a cover image for your Newsletter. The cover image will be shown on the newsletter listing as well as your SEO listing tile.
If you wish, select a highlight/pinned article. This article will appear outside of all the below sections and sit at the top of your newsletter.
5. Add the content of your newsletter within Newsletter sections. Newsletter sections are the sub sections within your newsletter, which you add articles in to.
6. Once you’ve created your Newsletter sections, choose the articles you wish to add to each section.
7. Press save and your newsletter has now been created. You can use this URL to directly share, or you can add to a Newsletter Listing Page.
Step four: Creating a Newsletter Listing Page
Navigate to Pages > New Entry
Create a new Standard Page entry.
Navigate to the Content tab of your page.
Within the content builder > + Add a section > Select Newsletter Listing.
Title your newsletter heading. If you wish to show ALL newsletters, leave the Category blank. However, if you wish to only display specific newsletters, select the category that applies.
Your Newsletter Listings are now added to the page. Hit Save.
