Brisbane German Club WordPress Website Manual 1 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 5 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 7 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 8 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 9 Post Options: 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 10 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) 13 Slider 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. 22 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 25 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 28 .