Transcript Instructions For Adding Content To The Website (September 2015)

St George’s C of E (V.A.) Primary School
Updating the School Website
General Concepts
• In the past we thought of a website as a collection
of pages.
• We needed to update a page and then link to it
from somewhere else on the website.
• Updating a page was difficult – it was hard to
format the text and include pictures and be sure
that it would then appear correctly to others
viewing the pages.
General Concepts
• We need to think differently now.
• Our school website has a theme which
automatically formats the pages.
• The theme has been set up with various
‘containers’ to store content.
• All we need to do is to put content in the
‘container’ and the website will present it for us.
• This is much a much quicker process and keeps
what others view consistent.
Content
• Posts
• Photo Albums
• Photographs
• Links
• Documents
• Comments
Logging On
• Each user has their own unique user name e.g.
mrhewitt.
• Your user name will appear at the bottom of any
post you add.
• You can log on directly from the website near the
bottom of any page.
Logging On
• Log in and you will be taken to the dashboard.
Dashboard
Clicking here will take you back to the website.
Dashboard
• As you hover over the menu at the left hand side of
the dashboard new options appear.
Post
• The content you are most likely to add is a post.
• A post is a piece of information you wish to display
on the website.
• It may be e.g. a news item or a link to a document
that has been recently placed on the website.
Post
• Its title will appear in the Recent Posts widget in
the sidebar down the left hand side of the website
if it is one of the latest five posts.
Adding A Post
• Hover over Posts in the left hand menu of the
dashboard and click Add New.
Adding A Post
• Enter the title (please use capital
letters at the start of each word).
• Enter the text you wish to write.
• Choose the Category for the Post –
this is the ‘container’ for the post
and how the website knows which
page to display the post on.
• Typically you will choose your class
but you can put it in more than one
category e.g. in News as well.
Photographs
• Photographs are the other content you are likely to
want to add.
• Before you add photos, they need to be stored in a
folder your computer can access.
• First, you need to add an Album for the
photographs.
Adding An Album
• Hover over Photo Albums in the left hand menu of
the dashboard and click Album Admin.
Adding An Album
• Hover over Photo Albums in the left hand menu of
the dashboard and click Album Admin.
Adding An Album
This is a list of all the current Albums – you may need the ID later.
Adding An Album
• Enter the name (please
use capital letters at the
start of each word).
• Choose the parent
album.
• Typically you will choose
your class but you could
put it in e.g. Whole
School.
• Note that you don’t
need to save the album
– that happens
automatically.
Photographs
• Now, you can upload photographs to the album.
• Click on Upload Photos.
Uploading Photos
• There are three
ways to upload
photos.
• Whichever way
you choose,
ensure that you
choose the album
to upload them
into.
Photographs
• Photo albums automatically appear in the Photo
Albums area of the website.
Photographs In Posts
• But, you can also add them to a Post as a
slideshow.
• Simply add the following text to your post –
[wppa type="slideonly" album="xx"][/wppa]
• You will need the album number of the album you
wish to include.
Adding A Link
• Hover over Links in the left hand menu of the
dashboard and click Add New.
Adding A Link
• Enter the name (please use capital
letters at the start of each word).
• Enter the web address of the link.
• Choose the Category for the Link –
this is the ‘container’ for the link and
how the website knows which page
to display the post on.
• You can put a link in more than one
category.
Link Categories
• Bullying Information (for documents to be included on the Anti-Bullying
page).
• Child Web Links (used for links on the children’s Launchpad – note that
these links need pictures).
• Derbyshire Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents
page).
• Government Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents
page).
• Governor Links (list of links on School Governor page).
• High Peak Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).
• New Mills Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).
• Other Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).
• Quick Links (used for links on the homepage)
• Report Abuse (do not use – used as a category for the Report Abuse link
on the sidebar)
Link Categories
• School Curriculum Information (used as a category on the Parents
Information page).
• School Forms (used as a category on the Parents Information page).
• School Information (used as a category on the Parents Information
page).
• School Policies (used as a category on the Parents Information page).
• School Prospectus (used as a category on the Parents Information page).
• School Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).
• Staff Information (for documents to be included on the Staff Links page
– note that this document is in this category).
• Staff Web Links (used for links on the Staff Links page – note that these
links need pictures).
• Website Links (a default category – do not use).
Adding A Document
• Hover over Media in the left hand menu of the
dashboard and click Add New.
Adding A Document
• Add the document to the library.
• Then go in to the Media Library to see all the
media.
Media Library
Selecting A Document
• Click on the document you want to use.
• Select the url of the document and copy it (Ctrl-C).
Using A Document
• You can now use the url in a Post or in a Link and a
hyperlink to the document will be included on the
website.
Comments
• When you add a post, you can allow visitors to post
comments.
• The is useful if the children are blogging or if you
want comments on a particular subject.
• No comments appear on the site until they have
been approved.
Quick Editing
• While you are logged on, an ‘edit’ link will appear
next to the content on the website.
• You can go directly to this content by clicking on the
‘edit’ link.
Quick Editing
• By using this and the link to go the website on the
dashboard, you can flip between posting and
viewing at how it looks on the web site without
needing to keep logging in and out.