From the user home page (/en/usr), click Add channel. You'll need:
- Organization — the channel's billing/team parent. If you belong to only one org, it's preselected.
- Title — the display name readers see at the top of the public site.
- Perma name — the URL-friendly slug used in
/en/c/<perma-name>. Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only. Must be unique across OmniCon. - Default culture — the primary language of the channel. Articles can still be written in other cultures, but this one drives the default public URL and public-feed fallbacks.
After creating, you land on the channel details page. The next steps are usually:
- Open Settings and add a description and logo.
- Invite or create authors.
- Start writing articles or building pages.
First-run welcome card
A brand-new channel (no articles yet, created in the last 24 hours) shows a one-time "What are you building?" card on the details page instead of an empty list. Pick a shape and OmniCon seeds 1–3 sample articles plus a matching layout, so there's something real to open and edit on your first visit:
- Help center — support/product-docs articles.
- Blog — posts with author bylines.
- News — release notes and announcements.
- Docs — long-form developer documentation.
- Sandbox — skip seeding, just an empty channel.
The card disappears as soon as you pick a shape (or dismiss it with the ×) and never reappears for that channel. Everything it seeds is a normal, fully editable article — rewrite it, delete it, or use it as a model for your own.