Story templates and how to use them

Instead of creating the same type of content from scratch every time, you can use a template to save time and ensure consistency across your stories.

Templates are pre-made story layouts that include headings, sections, and placeholder content. They’re useful when you regularly publish similar types of stories, such as:

• Press releases
• Product updates
• Event announcements
• Internal communications

Using a template helps you focus on writing the content, instead of formatting everything from scratch.

You can create custom templates for your team to use.

1. Find the Templates link (under “More” in the left sidebar)
2. or go to your Organisation settings and click the Templates card
3. In the templates page, click Create template
4. Add your content and structure
5. Give the template a name
6. Click Save
7. You template is now created and added to your templates list 🎉

All templates created here will be available to your whole team when starting a new story.

When you create a new story in Prezly, you’ll be given two options:

• Start blank – an empty story with no structure
• Pick a template – select from a list of available templates

Once you choose a template, the story editor will open with the template content pre-filled.

Templates can only be used when creating a new story. If you’ve already started writing, you won’t be able to apply a template afterward.

However, for reusable content blocks, you can use Snippets. You can learn more about snippets on this help article.