How to Edit Your Website
Pages
- In left menu, click Pages (This will allow you to view all Pages that are currently built)
- If you want to build a new page, select Add New
- Once selected you will be requested to Enter title here for the page. URL will be auto-generated based upon what is entered into the “Enter Title” field. To change, click the Edit button that appears under field
- Note: When naming the page, it is recommended to name it according to the final sitemap
- Enter optional H1 which will overwrite title in second Title field
- Add Header image from Media Library
- Enter content into wysiwyg (instructions below)
- Join page blocks to the page (if desired) by clicking name in the left window of page blocks Blocks box. Anything on the right will appear on the front end. Click and drag to reorder. Click (-) to remove from page.
- Enter SEO Settings information.
Content Editor (WYSIWYG)
- Type content directly into the wysiwyg in HTML Fields Tab or copy/paste from word processor with ease
Font Styles Selection
- Different font styles, including headers, are chosen from the Format drop-down menu
Block Quotes In Content Editor
- Highlight text to be put into block quotes
- Select block quote button
Links
- Highlight the word/s which you want to create as a link and clicking on the insert/edit link icon.
- Enter the destination URL directly into the field or performing search.
- For internal links, insert page url only (eg: /about).
- For external links, insert the entire url (http://www.website.com) and click Open in a New Window/Tab box. For telephone “click to call” functionality add tel:phonenumber, and email insert mailto:[email protected]
- Click Add Link button
- To break a link, highlight linked text and click Remove Link button (broken chain)
- Click Update
Inline Images
- To add an in-line image, place your cursor on the area where the image should appear, and click Add Media button above wysiwyg
- Click on the little chart symbol to open the media library
- Scroll to find an image or search using field in top right corner, select it, then click Insert Into Page button
- Upload and find the image on your computer (EDIT ALL IMAGES IN IMAGE EDITING SOFTWARE BEFORE UPLOADING TO FILEBIN PLEASE) and upload. Then select the image and click insert.
- Once the image is in place, click on image to reveal edit toolbar. Choose an alignment and add vertical/horizontal space if necessary.
- Click Update
SEO Settings
- Search Engine Listing Tab
- Enter Title tags (max. 70 characters)
- Enter Meta Description (max. 140 characters)
- Social Networks Listing Tab
- (This is the pre-determined information that you want to include if someone were to Share your page or story. Mostly used in blog posts, or articles.)
- Enter Title
- Enter Description
- Upload Image
- (This is the pre-determined information that you want to include if someone were to Share your page or story. Mostly used in blog posts, or articles.)
- Scroll back up the top right of the page. You are not ready to publish your page yet, so go immediately underneath to Page Attributes. This is where you assign your page to the site.
- If your page is underneath a main navigation section, select the Parent page.
- If you are not adding a Sidebar, you can Publish your page, or Save Draft. (You can also Preview your page to see how it looks before saving it.
- If you are creating a sidebar, you will want to Save Draft of your page before doing so.
- If you would like to add a sidebar to the page, go to the Sidebar section in the right columns of WordPress.
Adding a Sidebar
- In the sidebar section on the page you are editing, either pick a sidebar you’ve created, or click Enter New and name your new sidebar specific to the page you’re working on for easy finding.
- If you’re looking to use the OMS persistent widget:
- Navigate to the left WP menu and choose OMS Widgets.
- Create the new content for that specific sidebar. You have the option for open content, image, video, etc. Choose the correct item, and complete the entry.
- Navigate back to tghe left menu, Appearance > Widgets.
- Select the sidebar you created per the page with the drop down.
- Click and drag the OMS persistent widget, and choose the entry you completed in step 4.
- If you are adding more than one sidebar element such as text, an image, etc., you only need to create one sidebar.
- Click Update. A yellow box will appear Sidebar saved.
- In the Widgets area, select your newly created Sidebar from the drop-down menu on the right side.
- It will create a white box with the name of your Sidebar.
- Drag the element(s) that you would like to add from the left options to your Sidebar. (Anything labeled OMS has been styled for your website.) For ex: Choose OMS Persistent Widget (includes most of your used options) to add an image with a caption to your sidebar. You can drag your items to reorder them as well.
- Fill out the necessary information and click Save. If you have saved a draft of your page, you can go to Pages and find your page to review. Be sure to “Publish” when you are ready!
Page Blocks
Page Blocks are created separately from Pages, and then “Joined” to the created Page. Because of this, it is easier to create a Page Block prior to creating your new Page. If you do create a New Page and then need to create a new Page Block, just save a Draft of your new Page so that you can come back to it after creating your desired Page Blocks.
- In left menu, click Page Blocks (This will allow you to view all Page Blocks that are currently built in the system)
- If you want to build a new Page Block, Select Add New. You can also edit an existing page block.
- To build a new page block: Enter Title
- Please note that the title is not associated with SEO in page blocks, so you will want to name it intuitively (so that you know to grab it later).
- Hidden: Select No (recommended) or Yes from the drop-down menu
- Hide on Mobile option allows you to hide page blocks on mobile devices to increase speed
- Layout: Select from the available list based on the type of block being created (full-width, 2-column, 3-column, and Call-to-Action options). Refer to designs on page block styles.
- Enter CTA Button text
- Select page to link CTA Button to with drop-down menu
- Scroll back up and “Publish” your Page Block. Your new Page Block has been created, however, until it is joined to a page, it will not be visible.
- To join your page block to a page, go to the page you would like to add it to and select the name of the page block(s) in the Page Block section. For information on building a page, see the Page section above.
- The order of the page block, once selected, will dictate how they will appear on the page. Blocks can be re-ordered as needed and once complete select the Red Update button to save your changes and Publish.
NOTE: On youtube videos, to prevent the suggested videos from appearing on screen after the video is finished playing, simply insert this after the youtube url in the field: ?rel=0
Media Library
- Click Media, Library, Add New
- Drop files into window or click Select Files button
- To Edit Images or other Media you may view as a list or Media Grid View
- Inside the Media Grid, media items are displayed in a thumbnail grid for ease of navigation. Click any media item to edit the image directly; however, we recommend that you use photo editing software like Photoshop before uploading images to Media Library. In this view, you may also edit the image metadata or media item metadata.
- Media library can be filtered by type or date and is searchable by title.
Posts (Articles)
- In left menu, click Posts
- Select Add New
- Enter Title
- URL will be auto-generated based upon Title. To change, click the Edit button that appears under field
- Enter post copy in wysiwyg
- If copy contains links to outside sites, be sure to create link as Open in new tab.
- SEO Settings
- Search Engine Listing Tab
- Enter Title tags (max. 70 characters)
- Enter Meta Description (max. 140 characters)
- **If fields are left blank, search engines will use Blog post title for Meta tags and first 140 characters of post for Meta Description
- Search Engine Listing Tab
- Check categories box from list
- Add New Category by clicking +Add New Category link at the bottom of Categories panel and entering category name, choosing Parent Category from the drop-down menu
- Save by clicking Add New Category button
- Set featured image from Media Library
- Append a Form, if desired by selecting from drop-down menu
- When complete, go to Publish panel
- you may choose to Save Draft
- Click Edit link under Save Draft button to set post as Pending Review
- Visibility: default is Public. To change, click Edit link
- You can Stick post to the landing page by checking box, or change post to Password protected or Private by selecting radio button
- click OK button to save changes
- Publish Immediately: can be changed by clicking Edit link
- Enter publish date, click OK button
- you may choose to Save Draft
- Preview Draft, or click blue Publish button
FAQs
- You can edit the list of FAQs directly in the FAQs section in the left navigational WP menu. These are styled to represent toggles, and nothing stylized to update.
- To join your FAQ to the page, go to the page you would like to add it to and select the name of theFAQ(s) in the FAQ section. For information on building a page, see the Page section above.
- The order of the FAQ, once selected, will dictate how they will appear on the page. These can be re-ordered as needed and once complete select the Red Update button to save your changes and Publish.
Menus
- In left menu, click Appearance then Menus
- In the Edit Menus tab, choose the menu you would like to edit from the drop-down menu and click Select
- Edit Menu Name in field, if desired
- Drag and drop each item into the order you prefer and/or click the arrow on the right of the item to reveal additional configuration options
- Click red Save Menu button
Options
The Options section allows website administrator toHeader Call to Action phone number and text, background image, etc.
In left menu, click Options then proceed to edit data for any of the above fields