Brisbane German Club WordPress Website Manual
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Table of Contents
How To Add: A Page ...... 3 How To Edit: A Page ...... 4 How To Add: A Post ...... 8 How To Edit: A Post ...... 12 How To Edit: Home Page ...... 13 Editing the Home Screen Widgets: ...... 19 How To Change: The Menu ...... 22 Events & Calendar ...... 24 How To Add: a Hyperlink ...... 26
2 How To Add: A Page
Step 1: Go to „Pages‟ on the left sidebar of the backend. Click „Add New‟
3 How To Edit: A Page
Step 1: Hold the cursor over any specific page. 4 options appear – to edit/ quick edit/ trash/ view. These are self-explanatory however to edit a page select the edit function or alternatively just click on the page tittle and it will take you straight to the editing module.
Step 2: once in the editing module (as seen below) you can edit text add a picture and modify the format using the toolbox. Alternatively you can also edit text and formatting using the HTML code window.
4 Step 3: once finished editing make sure you hit the update. If the page is not updated changes will not be saved. Note, if you make a mistake and don‟t want to save changes you can simply exited out of the page without updating.
Page Options:
How to add other content elements to the page (Food, Gallery, Contact Form, Blog etc.)
The + will increase the width of the section eg. 1/1 is full width
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The – will decrease the width of the section eg. ½ is half the width (column)
Click to Edit
6 The Editor of the „Food‟ Area
Click to Delete
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Confirm the deletion
How to choose a Sidebar:
You can choose a specific sidebar for the page you are working on simply by selecting the layout and desirable sidebar, select and Update.
How To Add: A Post
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Step 1: Go to „Post‟ on the left sidebar of the backend. Click „Add New‟
Step 2: Edit the post in the same way as you would edit a page. Step 3. Assign a category Step 4. Set your featured image
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How to choose a sidebar
Blog Header Title (Grey Area) must be the same as the title as seen above
How to show Author Name
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How to show Social Networking Sharing buttons for users to share the post
How to Change Author Name
Select from the “Author dropdown” the author that you want to show in the post; by default it will show your user name (the one with you are logged in). In case you want to assign the post to another author, just use this tool.
11 How To Edit: A Post
Step 1: Hold the cursor over any specific post. 4 options appear – to edit/ quick edit/ trash/ view. These are self-explanatory however note you can backdate a post by selecting the quick edit and setting a predetermined date. To edit select the edit function or alternatively just click on the post you want to edit and it will take you straight to the editing module.
Step 2: Edit a post the same way you edit a page. Note make sure you update post to save it.
12 How To Edit: Home Page
Note: Individual sections of the home page are modified at different locations on the backend.
Header (CODE)
Slider Area Page “Main” PAGE HEADER TYPE ( TOP SLIDER )
Page “Main” ENABLE STUNNING TEXT (UNDER TOP SLIDER)
Page “Main” [Food]
Sidebar (Widgets)
Page “Main” [Food]
Page “Main” [Gallery] Gallery Area – “Homepage Gallery”
Footer (Widgets)
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Select an image from the media area (images are in the media library)
When you select the ‘Edit’ tool
14 Stunning Text (Under Slider)
Fill in the Title, Caption and Link
15 Page “Main”
The + will increase the width of the section eg. 1/1 is full width
The – will decrease the width of the section eg. ½ is half the width (column)
Click to Edit
16 The Editor of the „Food‟ Area
17 Click to Delete
Confirm the deletion
18 Editing the Home Screen Widgets: Step 1: Hover over “Appearance” on the Dashboard menu and select “Widgets”.
Step 2: Select which area you wish to modify by clicking on the dropdown arrow.
Step 3: Click on the editable widget that you wish to change and make your changes. Click “Save” when you‟re finished to save your changes.
19 How to Edit: Text Widget
Open a blank „post‟ in one „Browser Tab‟
Have the widgets open in a separate „Browser Tab‟
Copy the text from the widget
Go to the „Text‟ view tab
Past the text from the widget
Click on the „Visual‟ view tab
20 The visual view will show you how the code is seen in the sidebar/footer
Make changes as desired then go back to the „Text‟ view tab
Recopy the text
Go back into the widget „Browser Tab‟ and paste the new text then click „save‟
21 How To Change: The Menu
Step 1: Go to „Appearance‟ on the dashboard menu. Click „Menus‟
Step 2: To add a page, search for it in the search area on the left. Click the box left of the page. Click „Add to Menu‟
Step 3: The menu item will appear at the bottom of the menu. Click, Hold and Drag the item to the desired location on the menu. Click „Save Menu‟. Note that indenting a menu item creates a sub-menu.
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23 Events & Calendar
Fill, step by step, all the requested fields.
24 Fill in the event location details (Usually the Brisbane German Club)
Fill in the details of the organiser contact info
You can add images and info into the description area
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How To Add: a Hyperlink Step 1: Go to the Media Library
Step 2: Add the file/image to the media library
26 Step 3: Once the file is uploaded, click ‘edit’ to the right
Step 4: Copy the file URL to the right
Step 5: Go into the post/page/event/food where you wish you add the hyperlink, highlight the text and click the chain ‘link’ button
27 Step 6: Paste the copied file URL into the URL area, click the ‘open link in a new window/tab’ and click add link, update the post/page/event/food
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