Adding a press mention

The press page at https://rladies.org/about-us/press/ lists every press mention RLadies+ has earned, year by year. Each entry is a small page bundle under content/about-us/press/<date-slug>/. Adding one is a small PR — a folder, an index.en.md, optionally a PDF.

Folder structure

Each press mention is its own folder named after the publication date in YYYY-MM-DD form. If two entries land on the same date, append the outlet name to the folder:

content/about-us/press/2021-10-30-times/
└── index.en.md
content/about-us/press/2021-10-30-buzzfeed/
└── index.en.md
content/about-us/press/2021-12-23/
└── index.en.md

The folder name does not need to be repeated in the URL — Hugo will use it as the slug, so the article ends up at /about-us/press/2021-10-30-times/.

File content

The press layout reads only the front matter; the body of the file can stay empty. A complete entry:

---
title: "El aporte silencioso a la agroinformática"
date: "2017-06-26"
source: "http://ria.inta.gob.ar/contenido/el-aporte-silencioso-la-agroinformatica"
language: "es"
---

Fields:

title — the article title in its original language. The press list shows the title verbatim with a lang attribute set, so screen readers can pronounce it correctly.

date — the publication date as YYYY-MM-DD.

source — the full URL to the article.

language — the ISO 639-1 code for the article’s language (en, es, pt, fr, de, …). This is what powers the lang attribute on the title and helps the press list categorise content. Optional but recommended.

Optional: a local PDF

If the article is paywalled or might disappear, we can host a PDF copy alongside the front matter:

content/about-us/press/2021-10-30-times/
├── index.en.md
└── 2021-10-30-times-when-r-ladies-came-to-paris.pdf

Any .pdf file in the bundle becomes a “Download PDF” button on the press list. Use a descriptive filename — the visitor downloads exactly that name.

Confirm with the article’s publisher that hosting the PDF is acceptable, particularly if the article is behind a paywall.

Submitting the entry

Working with the website covers the general clone-and-PR workflow. The press entry is small enough that the GitHub web UI works fine — create a new file at the right path, fill in the front matter, write a commit message, propose the change.

A team member from @rladies/website will review and merge.