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How to Add a New Post on WordPress and Utilize all the Features – on wpbeginner

Articles or Blog Post

Articles conform to most, if not all of:

• long;
• contains research and analysis, or information that might be part of a history resource, e.g. lists of COs, or a collection of pictures on slavery etc.;
• not particularly personal, or polemic, or anecdotal in style;
• may have footnotes;
• not likely to go out of date, or need updating within months.

Blog posts conform to most, if not all of:

• short;
• contains news items, updates, a brief thought, a ‘factoid’, an event report, or a call to action, and contains information that is not part of a history resource;
• the style maybe more personal, or polemic, or anecdotal;
• does not have footnotes;
• related to the time it is published, i.e. likely to go out of date, or need updates within months.

Adding Pictures

Single Pictures

1. On your computer open up the location of the picture you want to upload in a File Explorer/Manager window.
2. In the post you are adding the picture to click the ‘Add Media’ button, the ‘Insert Media’ dialogue box will open.
3. Drag the picture from the File Explorer onto the Insert Media bo; the file should upload.
4. Look to the right. Fill out the caption (if required), the Alt Text (REQUIRED) and leave the description blank.
5. Ignore ‘New Filter’.
6. Choose the ‘Alignment’; it is best to use Centre as I have, on the whole, avoided floated pictures (aligned left or right with text wrap).
7. For ‘Link To’ select ‘Media File’, so that the original picture file is linked picture in the post, or ‘None’ to have no link on the picture. DO NOT use ‘Attachment Page’.
8. The select a ‘Size’. The maximum possible width is 780px.

Note that all of the settings can be edited after the picture has been added to the post.

If you play around with the image sizes you will soon see which crop the image to a specific aspect ratio and which don’t.

To edit the picture, click on it in the post edit screen, then click on the pencil ‘Edit’ icon. In this dialogue box you can choose a ‘Custom Size’ as well as the prefixed sizes.

Adding A Gallery

1. Click on the ‘Add Media’ button.
2. Upload the pictures you want and add in the Caption and Alt Text etc. OR select some pictures that have already been uploaded.
3. Look to the top left and click ‘Create Gallery’, then look to the bottom right and click to on ‘Create a new gallery’.
4. Use:
   1. ‘Link To’ – ‘Media File’ or ‘None’
   2. ‘Columns’ – 2 or 3
   3. Random Order – you can drag and drop the pictures into an order or check this to have them in a different order each time the page loads.
   4. Size – 2_or_3_accross_crop (this will crop all the pictures to be the same height) 2_or_3_accross_no_crop (if your original pictures are different heights they will remain at different heights).
5. Click ‘Insert gallery’
6. Look to the top right and the ‘Publish’ section, click on Preview to see how the gallery looks on the front end; the editor is not that WYSIWYG and the more styling is added to the gallery when it is displayed on the front end.

To edit the gallery, click on it in the post edit screen and then click on the pencil icon.

Events

Title – If you can help it not too long (long titles mess up the page formatting so that it looks rubbish), remember there is a sub-title.

Permalink (slug) – Try to avoid changing this after publishing because it affects the URL and changing this will break any links people have made to the page.

Sub-Title – Normally anything after the colon in the title.

Content –

• Remember to us the ‘Paste As Text’ (clipboard with a T icon, 2nd row of buttons).
• Use ‘Add Media’ button to add pictures.
• Use heading styles appropriately (don’t use Heading 1). If unsure look at examples e.g. an Event with several separate speakers.

Excerpt – You can enter a brief description of the event here and it will appear in the Event Series programme table. If this is left blank, a truncated version of the first few lines of content will be used; however, in certain circumstances, this will not reflect the event, especially if it contains more than one talk.

Start Date – IMPORTANT! This is required.

Start Time – IMPORTANT! This MUST be 24hr clock, either 19:30 or 1930. This is not absolutely necessary.

End Date – If different from the Start Date.

End Time – You can enter this if you have one. IMPORTANT! This MUST be 24hr clock, either 19:30 or 1930.

**** Note that if the event lasts several days, and at the same time each day (e.g. and exhibition), enter a start date, start time, end date and end time. If the times are different each day, enter the dates and leave the times blank.

Price – Enter any text with currency units e.g. “Donation, £4/3 or £4 but no one refused due to lack of funds”.

Location – Enter the location within a venue where the event is taking place: e.g. Room 1.

Subset – This can be used to split the event programme table on the Event Series page. Enter the subset to which you want this event to belong to; e.g. Day 1, Exhibitions, etc.

Connected Contributors – Click ‘Create connections’, you can then start typing the name in ‘Search Posts’. When you see the name you want to click on it to add it to the Event. If you do not see the name, i.e. they are a new Contributor, click on ‘New Post’ and add the name (first name then surname, no commas). Note: when you add a new Contributor they are added as a Draft post and after you finish editing the Event you must go to Contributors and Publish the new Contributor; however, you can leave the details of the Contributor blank if you want but adding a short bio (may be copied and pasted from the Event itself) is more desirable.

Connected Venues – Similar to Connected Contributors; however, only bother adding a new Venue if it is likely to host more than one event. If you do create a new Venue please do not leave its details blank when you publish it (if unsure have a look at another Venue).

Event Series – Similar to Contributors. You can add more than one series to an Event. Note:

• If this belongs to a new Event Series that has not been listed, create the series first before you start adding the events.
• If it is one of our events but does not belong to a specific series it is ‘Miscellaneous 2017’.
• If it is not our event leave this blank.

Yoast SEO – Only bother to use this if you want to force Facebook and Twitter to use a particular picture when a link to this Event is added, you can ignore everything else. On the left click on the 2nd icon down, then use ‘Upload Image’ to Select a picture.

Related Items – This is currently broken.

Filter Options – Leave this unless you are desperate to stop this appearing in the New Feed.

Other People’s Events – Use this to tag an Event as being organised by someone other than us (or us in collaboration with other people). If ‘Someone Else’s Even’ is selected a bit of text disowning the Event is added to the listing.

Categories – Select one or more categories that the Event fits into. Note that these categories are called ‘Subjects’ when viewing the front end. PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY NEW CATEGORIES.

Tags – Add a few keywords. You can add new ones as you see fit. They should be used to relate content on the site.

Featured Image – You can ignore this for Events because they use the Event Series poster.

Link Projects – If this Event should be listed under one or more of the Projects tick the appropriate boxes.

Publish – You can ‘Save Draft’ to save the edits you have made without the Event ‘going live’. Otherwise Publish and be damned.

Classes

pic-border – <img> – add a light grey border around pictures which bleed to white.

pic-full-height – <img> –  make a picture no larger than the height of the window it is being viewed in.

q-list – <ul> – turn a list into a ‘q list’.

Shortcodes

[event_list_wrapper title='Full programme']

You can download the hardcopy event programme here.

Saturday 13th April



Saturday 20th April





Sunday 21st April





            

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