Looking for tips on how to perform common tasks in your website? These will get you started!
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Getting Started
Logging In
- Your login link is www.youdomain.com/wp-admin.
- Your username/password is what was established during your training session or what you've changed it to since.
- Once logged in, you will be viewing the dashboard.
Editing Content
Pages / Posts (Blog) / News
- A page versus a post.
- Add a new page / post.
- How to access a page for editing.
- WordPress editing tools.
- Adding images.
- Inserting hyperlinks.
- Adding documents and other media items.
- Embedding a YouTube video.
- Switching between text / visual editor.
- Saving and publishing content.
Site Menu
Managing Media
- Navigating the media tab.
- Adding a file to media.
- Editing media file properties.
- Deleting a file from media.
- Organizing media. (video)
Resizing Images
- Free image editor.
- Open your image.
- With the crop tool selected, choose output size from the constraint dropdown.
- Enter the appropriate dimensions in pixels.
- Select the crop area on your image by clicking and dragging. Then double-click to accept the crop.
- Choose File > Save... in the main menu.
- Format should be set to .JPEG. Use the quality slider to reduce the file size to a manageable number.
- Click Save.
Add-Ons
Locations Tool
- Navigate to Locations in the sidebar menu.
- Either Add New or click on a location name to edit.
- Add or edit title, address, phone numbers, etc. Upload an image if desired.
- Add services in the right-hand sidebar, if desired.
- Click Save / Update in the right-hand sidebar.
Job Application / Forms Tool
- Creating a form.
- Form field types.
- Using conditional logic in your form.
- Adding a form to a page.
- Viewing form submissions.
- Changing confirmation the user sees after submitting the form.
- Setting completed form submission destination(s).
Employee Profile Management Tool
- Add a new user.
- Delete a user.
- Editing your user profile.
- To edit a user other than yourself, navigate to users and select their name from the list.
- Viewing, editing and removing groups.
- Assigning users to groups.
Ag Newsroom
- Stories will automatically populate in your posts or news admin area as unpublished.
- If you wish to publish a story, click on the story title to edit.
- Assign story to the appropriate categories in the right-hand sidebar.
- Adjust date in the right-hand sidebar, if needed.
- Click Publish.
Message Center
Creating a new subscriber list:
- Under Message Center in the menu at left, click subscribers.
- Click Add New.
- Fill out the title field and assign a list type (text/email).
- If you do not want the list accessible by the public (ie. Employees Only list), check the box for Is a Private List.
- Click Publish.
Adding subscribers to a list:
- Under Message Center in the menu at left, click subscribers.
- Mouseover the list you would like to add subscribers to. Click the subscribers link that appears beneath the list name.
- Search for and checkmark individual users or groups you would like to add. Then click Add Subscribers.
- Note: Users must have an account under users to be added as a subscriber.
- If you wish to use or provide your users with a link to subscribe use the following: www.youdomain.com/subscribe. This will automatically complete all of the previous steps in adding a subscriber to a list(s).
Removing subscribers from a list:
- Under Message Center in the menu at left, click subscribers.
- Mouseover the list you would like to remove a subscriber from. Click the link called subscribers that appears beneath the list name.
- Mouseover the user you wish to delete. Click the unsubscribe button that appears upon doing so.
Sending an email:
- Click Email Messages in the menu at left.
- If you are creating a new message, click Add New. If you are editing a message draft, click the subject of the email to resume editing your message.
- Enter the subject in the title field.
- Select a template by clicking the template icon (
) in the editor window.
- Add your message text, pictures and links.
- Click Save Message in the top right sidebar.
- Once your message is ready, send yourself a test message in the bottom right sidebar.
- If you are content with your message, select the lists you wish to send your message to in the right sidebar.
- Next select the time and date you would like your message to send.
- Click Save and Send Message. Please note, saving or scheduling a message should be your last step as your message will be queued for delivery after you complete this step.
Sending a text:
- Click Text Messages in the menu at left.
- If you are creating a new message, click Add New. If you are editing a message draft, click on the title of the text to resume editing your message.
- Enter a title.
- Add your message text.
- Click Save Message.
- Once your message is ready, send yourself a test message in the bottom right sidebar, if needed.
- If you are content with your message, select the lists you wish to send your message to in the right sidebar.
- Next select the time and date you would like your message to send.
- Click Save and Send Message. Please note, saving or scheduling a message should be your last step as your message will be queued for delivery after you complete this step.
Accessing Analytics
- Visit www.google.com/analytics.
- Click Sign in.
- Login using the credentials shared with you.
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