diff --git a/.forestry/front_matter/templates/newslinks.yml b/.forestry/front_matter/templates/newslinks.yml
index afb4757a..f5265619 100644
--- a/.forestry/front_matter/templates/newslinks.yml
+++ b/.forestry/front_matter/templates/newslinks.yml
@@ -26,15 +26,33 @@ fields:
     type: file
     config:
       maxSize: 64
-    label: card_image
-    description: The card image should have an approximately <strong>1.9:1 aspect
-      ratio </strong>to display correctly inside the cards.<br>If your image doesn't
-      meet the requirements you can crop it at <a href="https://ipfs-blog.netlify.app/image-crop"
-      title="https://ipfs-blog.netlify.app/image-crop" target="_blank">https://ipfs-blog.netlify.app/image-crop</a>
+    label: Card image
+    description: <strong>Must be twice as wide as it is tall (2:1 aspect ratio) and
+      at least 400px tall.</strong> Need help? <a href="https://ipfs-blog.netlify.app/image-crop/"
+      title="Use this crop/scale tool" target="_blank">Use this crop/scale tool</a>
+      to save a revised image to your local machine, then upload here.
   - type: datetime
     name: date
-    label: date
+    label: Date
+    config:
+      required: true
+    description: For blog posts and news/other links, use date of publication. For
+      events, use the date of the event itself.
   - name: tags
     type: tag_list
     default: []
-    label: tags
+    label: Tags
+    description: "<strong>Please copy/paste applicable values from this canonical
+      tags list (capitalization counts!):</strong><br>AEgir ... API ... async/await
+      ... Bitswap ... blockstore ... bootstrap nodes ... breaking change ... browsers
+      ... case study ... CDN ... censorship ... CID ...CLI tools ... collaborative
+      cluster ... community ... conferences ... containerization ... content routing
+      ... CRDTs ... DAG ... datastore ... demo ... DHT ... DNSLink ... Docker ...
+      docs ... Drand ... encryption ... Ethereum ... Filecoin ... gateways ... go-ipfs
+      ... Gossipsub ... identity ... infrastructure ... interoperability ... interview
+      ... IoT ... IPFS Camp ... IPFS Cluster ... IPFS Companion ... IPFS Desktop ...
+      IPFS Web UI ... IPLD ... IPNS ... js-ipfs ... Kademlia ... Kubernetes ... libp2p
+      ... Linux ... MacOS ... MFS ... mobile ... official meetup ... package managers
+      ... pinning ... project planning ... pubsub ... QUIC ... recap ... research
+      ... Rust ... SECIO ... security ... static publishing ... streaming ... Testground
+      ... tutorial ... Windows ... weekly ... whitepaper"