Add the Acknowledgements section to your article template

The Acknowledgements section provides a checkbox and a statement to certify that your reader has read and acknowledged reading a Required Reading article.

It looks like this initially:

And like this once a reader has checked the box to acknowledge they've read the article:

You can choose where in your article layout this statement goes.

We recommend only including this section at the bottom of the article body or in the article footer, to encourage people to actually read and scroll the entire page. Don't put this section in your right column!

To add the Acknowledgements section to your article template:

  1. Go to Settings > Style.
  2. Below the Preview Pane, be sure Custom HTML is selected.
  3. Select Article from the Custom HTML dropdown.
  4. Copy the merge code below. (You can also find the merge code by clicking the -- Select a Merge Code -- dropdown, go to the Article Merge Codes section, and select Required Reading Acknowledgement.)
    [article("required_reading_acknowledgement")]
  5. Paste the merge code into the article template wherever you'd like the acknowledgement section to appear. Here are some of the most popular placements:
    1. Below the article body but above the article footer:
      Sample acknowledgements section after the article body. Note that the largest white space is between the acknowledgements and the footerTo achieve this placement, find the article("body") merge code, add a new line after it, and paste the merge code onto that line:
    2. At the top of the footer, above Related Articles:
      Sample acknowledgements section after the article body. Note that the largest white space is between the body and the acknowledgementsTo achieve this placement, find the hg-article-footer div, add a new line after it, and paste the merge code onto that line:
  6. If you've already enabled Required Reading, you can Preview Changes to see how they look (just be sure "Article" is selected from the Preview Pane dropdown!).
  7. Once you're done making changes, be sure to Save them!