How to Set Up Site Service for Themes

Section metadata

This documentation explains what fields are used in Site Service for Theme websites. Example screenshot of a section’s fields:

These fields are included by default in Site Service, and are not able to be changed.

Field label	Explanation	Where used on Themes
Name	Display name of the section	Anywhere the section name appears to readers – in the navigation, overline, or other blocks.
Section ID	ID Cannot be modified after creation	Creation of URL to section front pages (a trailing slash is added to this value by the Arc Blocks). When you configure theStory-Feed-Sections Content Source to display content in a given section.
Website	Website the section belongs to Cannot be modified after creation	Not directly used by Themes, but is an integral part of Arc data structure.

These fields are optional. If you wish to use them, they must be configured per the specs below in the Site Service field configurations.

Field label	Field slug*	Field type	Field Default Value	Field Group	Field Help Text	Default field	Required field
Metadata Description	metadata_description	Text		metadata	If present, will be included as the <meta> description tag and associated metadata tags on the section page.	True	Our recommendation:FalseYou can change this depending on whether you want to require editors to populate these.
Metadata Title	metadata_title	Text		metadata	If present, will be included as the section page <title> tag. If empty, a default <title> tag will be made by combining the section name and website name.	True	Our recommendation:FalseYou can change this depending on whether you want to require editors to populate these.

The Field Slug and Field Group are the most crucial to configure exactly as indicated. The data is stored in these fields in the data – [group].[slug] – for example, metadata.metadata_description); if it is incorrect, the Arc Blocks will not recognize/render it.