For admin-level users only
1. Please do not execute theme, plugin, or WordPress system updates, even if you see a notification in the dashboard. Either email Justin ([email protected]) or use the WPEngine staging area to test the update fully before deploying it on the live site.
2. Please exercise extreme caution working with anything in the Appearance, Plugins, or Settings menus on the left.
3. If you need to know what theme and plugin files have been customized, see here.
In a nutshell: go here, copy the site from “live” to “staging,” then go here to view the staging site. To log in and administer the staging site, just append “/wp-admin” to the URL above (i.e., https://home.edweb.net/wp-admin)
You can also find helpful video tutorials on YouTube, like this one.
For all users
1. Click the “Screen Options” tab in the top right corner
2. Select (or deselect) any features you would like to hide or reveal on the editing page view
2. Add a title
3. Add and format your text. Some tips:
- See here for some helpful tutorials on advanced tricks in WordPress’s “TinyMCE” text editor).
- If you are cutting and pasting from Word or other programs, beware weird HTML code that Microsoft may sticks in your copy. If you notice sizing or font glitches, try pasting into Word, clearing all formatting, then doing your copy-paste anew.
- Here are some tips for using the special Shortcodes that came with our WordPress theme, Innovado (i.e., all those wacky colorful buttons just above the text editor)
4. Select a Category to identify the type of post you are publishing (i.e., Blog, Press Release, Radio Show, Webinar, etc.)
5. Enter Tags to identify the topic(s) of your post
6. Add a Featured Image that is 200px by 200px square — see below for instructions (upload image and click “Use as Featured Image”); then, if desired, click “Insert into post” to add the same image to the body of your post content. You can use the Add Media button, of course, to add any other images to the blog post in any size or layout you like.
*When uploading images, be sure to enter Alt text (description) which helps search engine optimization and makes the site more accessible to sight-impaired users who may be using special web browsers/readers. The Alt description does not show up on the site itself; use the Caption field to add a visible caption underneath an image. Here are some tips on advanced image formatting techniques in WordPress.
7. If desired, add a special “Focus Keyword” to your post and customize the automatically generated meta description and SEO title, which will appear in search results. Be sure to optimize for appropriate and popular keywords such as author/contributor names and terms like “Education,” “Social media,” “Webinar,” “Professional Development,” etc.
8. Publish!
- You can back-date your post or “embargo” it until a future date (which can be useful for press releases or for queueing up / spacing out blog posts).
- You can make a post (like this one!) password-protected
- You can save a post as a draft and circulate the link to teammates for review
- You can customize the permalink (just below the site title), which often helps SEO too, and you can generate a “shortlink” for use in emails, Twitter, or other promotions.
Here’s a little video tutorial on resizing images and using the “canvas size” tool in Photoshop to get it just right.
http://edweb.net/wp-content/uploads/your-file-name.pdf
2. Save a custom version of the cover of the report as a JPEG, 200 pixels square
3. Open a new blog post and categorize it as “Research”; edit your text as you would any other blog post, with an abstract or intro to the research report and the featured image you just created
4. Place the report cover image into the post (it can be in portrait format, at any size). In the image editing box, paste the URL from step 1 into the “link” section so that clicking on the report cover opens the report PDF.
5. Publish your post and back-date it if necessary to the date of the report’s publication.
2. Click “Edit” and copy the full URL for the uploaded audio file
3. Go to Posts > Add New
4. Give the radio show a title, enter descriptive text, select Category “Radio,” enter appropriate tags, and upload a Featured Image (as with any blog post)
5. Just below the Featured Image tab, in the Featured Audio tab, either paste the URL of your uploaded audio file or simply select the right radio show file from the list (which detects all previously uploaded MP3 files)
6. Publish your post. That’s it!
2. Enter the source name (i.e., the person who provided the testimonial) at the top, where the post title usually goes
3. Enter the quote itself in the main text area, without quotation marks or other special formatting
4. In the “Testimonial Data” tab, enter the source’s job title (i.e., “Teacher,” “Principal,” etc)
5. Ignore “Location” and “Email”
6. Add “Company” (i.e., name of school or organization)
7. Add a URL (formatted as the full address, beginning with http://) if you’d like the source’s company to be a working link to their company website
8. Check the display of your new testimonial. If there are funny characters or extra line breaks, go back to your Testimonial post, and toggle from “Visual” to “Text” (code) view using the tabs at the top right corner of the text editing panel. Delete any extraneous breaks, tags, etc and Update to save your changes.
2. In WordPress dashboard, go to Gallery (2nd menu button from bottom) > Add Gallery / Images. Upload your logo and add it to the “Sponsors” gallery.
3. Enter the company website under “image link” field.
4. Double-check the home page Partners carousel and the Partners page to confirm that the logo appears and links correctly.
2. This email includes links to edit, trash, or mark as spam
3. Should new comments require moderation?
Here’s a useful video tutorial: