Guide to the Eagles Eyrie Online 2014

By: Maddie Reynolds This Guide will explain every aspect of the Online Website by explaining what every tab on the back-end of the website does. Signing in and Users...Page 2 Dashboard.Page 3 WooDoJo and Jetpack, Categories..Page 4 Media, Pages..Page 5 Currents..Page 6 Appearance..Page 7 Posts.Page 8

Signing In and Users

To get to the back-end of the website login using your username and password at www.godwineagles.org/wp-admin. To edit users:
- Click on the Eagles Eyrie site and open the DASHBOARD tab on the left hand side of the page - Scroll all the way down until you see the USERS tab and click. A list of all the people with accounts should appear on the page. Here you can edit the position and power each user holds and also add new users.

Positions:
Administrator- Has complete control over the entire website (only the online editor, the editor-in-chief, and the Godwin technology supervisor (Hoeffler) should have the role of administrator.) Editor- Can edit and publish posts onto the website. This should only be the people assigned as online editors (1 or 2 other people.) Contributor- Can work on a post already created by an administrator or an editor. Can only save posts to be reviewed but cannot publish any posts. (Everyone else in the class.) Author- Only has their name as an option for the byline of the article. Has no control to do anything on the website.

Add New User:

Click on ADD NEW under the USERS tab Enter the username (usually hpcs username without the hcps-) Enter the email of the new user (must be a valid email) Choose their role and click ADD NEW USER This will send a confirmation email to the user who will then choose a password for the site. ** ONLY ADMINISTRATORS CAN ADD AND EDIT USERS**

Dashboard
The Dashboard is an overview of the activity on the website. The Dashboard is also specific to each user whether they have other websites under the same username or not.

Site stats:
The stats section shows how many people viewed the website on certain days. It is great when trying to figure out what things attract more people to the site. - Photo galleries of sporting events, pep rallies, assemblies, etc. usually attract more visitors

Activity:
The activity section shows what was published on which days and who published it. It is good to use if something was published by accident or mistake.

Comments:
Every comment must be approved by one of the administrators before being published onto the online site. An email will usually be sent to an administrator that will allow for you to approve the comment, or the comment can be approved using the site. - Only appropriate comments should be published. If you are unsure if the comment is appropriate DO NOT publish it without talking to Mr. Carter first.

Unpublished Content:
This is a quick place to see if anything has not yet been published that needed to be published. It will show the number of drafts, pitches, in progresses, and pending reviews the site has.

Other:
There are other sections of the DASHBOARD that are rarely used because most of the communication done between users is verbal.
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WooDoJo and Jetpack

These are certain things that were downloaded to give the site some extra features. They can be browsed through to look for certain features that can be downloaded to add extra aspects to the site. This should only be done through the technology supervisor (Mr. Hoeffler as of right now.) If you want to add something through one of these talk to him first and he will be able to give more details as to what it is. WooDoJo has a maintenance feature that allows for the website to go offline for any reason necessary. Under the MAINTENANCE tab you are able to create a message that will appear when people try to visit the website if it is taken down. Reasons to take the website down: - Extreme maintenance work is needed and it will go by faster if the website is offline - Something horrible happened and someone posted inappropriate/inaccurate information ** Not necessary to mess with Jetpack and WooDoJo if not needed**

Categories
Categories are the things that appear on the menu bars on the homepage. Categories: News, Sports, Features, Flair, Opinion

To create a Category:
Click on the POSTS tab Click on the CATEGORIES tab Name the category Click ADD NEW CATEGORY

Media
The MEDIA tab is used to add pictures and videos onto a library that can be used throughout the site.

To Add Media: - Go to the MEDIA tab and click on LIBRARY - Click ADD NEW and then SELECT FILES and choose the files off the
computer Under the LIBRARY section you can see all the images and videos that have been uploaded and which ones are attached to a post. **Media can also be added directly onto a post while in editing a post**

Pages
Pages are used to create new information besides the basic articles. Having the pdf files of all past issues or links to photographers websites would be considered a page. (Pages differ from categories.)

Create a Page: - Go to the PAGES tab and click ADD NEW - Enter the title of the page ex: Eagles Eyrie Print Issues - Add any media necessary and any text necessary - Finish editing just like you would editing a post
**Pages are already set up for Print Issues and the Arts, any new pages that you wish to add should be talked about with Mr. Hoeffler, he will have more knowledge of how to set them up. **

Currents
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The CURRENTS tab contains everything for the design of the website.

Theme Options: - Under theme options will be the options for design of the text, homepage,
posts, and styling options

Things you can do: - Change the logo on the homepage of the website by uploading an image - Change the text size and font - Change the layout format - Change the feature slider on the Homepage - Change the footers at the bottom of the homepage - Change the advertisements o The site has ad space built into it, but using this ad space changes the homepage around a little bit. So instead of using this built in ad space we have been using something else for ads that will be explained later in the guide.

Appearance
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Under the APPEARANCE tab, you can change the theme of the website, the display of the homepage, the widgets of the website, and the menu layout of the website.

Themes: The theme of the website right now is called Currents. You can
change the theme of the website at any time by just deciding a new theme. However some of the themes cost money and some might not be compatible with what the online website is doing. Just double check everything before switching the whole theme of the website.

Widgets: The WIDGETS tab controls what appears on the sidebar of the
homepage and other various pages on the website. Widgets are options that can be added to a certain section of the page (this is where we put advertisements.) To Add a Widget: - Drag the widget on the left side to the place you want to put it on the right side. Then click the arrow on the right side and you can decide what to do with the widget. - As of right now the widgets on the front page are: blog subscriptions, two advertisements, and a woo-tabs option.

To Add an ADVERTISEMENT: - Go to the WIDGETS tab under APPEARANCE - Drag a TEXT widget into the sidebar option (or wherever you want it to go) - Click on the downward pointing arrow to open the TEXT option - INSERT the exact text that appears below
<a href="WEBSITE URL of ADVERTISEMENT"><img src="IMAGE URL"></a> into the big text box (not the title box).

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You must use http://www in the website URL To get the image URL, go to the image in the media library, then copy the FILE URL down towards the bottom of the page and insert into the text.

Posts
How to add a post (article.)
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Go to the POST tab and click ADD NEW Title the post Copy and paste the text from the article into the body text section Make sure you paste it into the VISUAL tab not he TEXT tab DO NOT indent paragraphs. Websites dont usually indent paragraphs You may need to change some of the formatting around depending on how it copied over 4. Add the pictures/videos to the post by clicking ADD MEDIA and then select the media you would like to use. If using more than 2 pictures then click CREATE GALLERY after hitting add media and select the photos to use in the gallery 5. Select the category that the post will go under (flair, news, opinion, features, etc.) 6. If the post is mainly pictured based then under the TAGS option type SLIDER and hit add. This will make it appear on the feature slider on the homepage. 7. Select a featured image. Click SET FEATURED IMAGE and choose an image that was used in the post. This will be the image that shows up next to the article on the homepage 8. Add an excerpt. Either copy and paste the first few sentences from the article into the excerpt box, or create your own excerpt. This will show up when the article appears on the homepage or a category page. 9. Credit the author. On the author drop down menu select the person who WROTE the article, not the person who published it on the website. 10.Either save the article to be reviewed and published later, or publish the article once everything is done and complete. Once you hit publish the article will appear on the website.