South Brent Old School Community Centre – Help page

• Click on ‘Pages’
• Click on ‘Add New’

Refer to picture below for these

• [green] Page Title: enter a name for this page (this will appear in the green banner area)
• [yellow] Parent: if this is a “sub page” (e.g. all Facilities are sub pages) under ‘Page Attributes’ choose the appropriate ‘Parent’ page – otherwise leave as ‘no parent’
• [red] Update: this saves any changes you’ve made – so always do this when you have finished editing a page
• [yellow] Permalink: this is the page’s “address” or “URL” and what people will see at the top of their browser. So if it’s too long you can edit it to make it simpler. Most of the time leave as is.
  IMPORTANT: once its been on your site for a while, changing it will disrupt SEO/Google searches and if anyone has linked to the page’s old address the link will fail.
• [red] Layout Settings: used to control width of area text appears in. Most of the time leave this as ‘default layout’ – a few pages have been set to be extra wide (i.e. facilities, equipment)
• [purple] Edit page: this is the area you can type into and add pictures etc.

See next topic “Edit a Page or Post” for how to edit the content.

POSTS are used for Events, News items and Equipment items

• Click on ‘Posts’
• Click on ‘Add New’

Refer to picture below for these:

• [black] Post Title: enter a name for this post
• [red] Update: this saves any changes you’ve made – so always do this when you have finished editing a post
• [yellow] Permalink: this is the post’s “address” or “URL” and what people will see at the top of their browser. So if it’s too long you can edit it to make it simpler. Most of the time leave it as it is. IMPORTANT: once its been on your site for a while, changing it will disrupt SEO/Google searches and if anyone has linked to the post’s old address the link will fail.
• [purple] Edit page: this is the area you can type into and add pictures etc.
• [green] Publish date: IMPORTANT
  • for EVENTS: this is the date of the event – and controls when it is displayed as a forthcoming event or a past event
  • for NEWS ITEMS: this is the date it is to be displayed until
• [red] Categories:
  • For EVENTS: set Category to ‘Events’ AND ‘Home page news and events’ to display on both Home and Events pages
  • For NEWS ITEMS: set Category to ‘Home page news and events’ to display on just Home page
• [blue] Featured Image:

See next topic “Edit a Page or Post” for how to edit the actual content.

When you have logged in, you’ll see and ‘Edit Page’ button at the top of each page.

Alternatively, click in top left (see image) to take you to the Dashboard – then click ‘Pages’ – then find the page you want and click ‘Edit’

Basic editing tips

When copying and pasting anything in, make sure the ‘Paste as Text’ button (clipboard with a white T in it) is clicked/selected. Otherwise you risk a lot of extra, hidden code coming in with it.

The Toolbar allows you to choose options and formats. Bold is fine, but avoid Underline (reserved for links) and font colour (to keep site looking clean and consistent).

Choose Style from drop down box on far left:

• Paragraph: normal text.
• Heading 1: generally reserved for title so avoid
• Heading 2, 3 and 4 can be used

For images, PDFs and links:

Click here for some useful basic videos on how to edit a Page/Post, add images, add links etc.

• Edit the page or post you want to duplicate
• Click on ‘Text’ button
• Select all
• Copy
• Create new page or post
• Make sure you’re looking at ‘Text’ and not ‘Visual’ (small tabs – top right of contents)
• Paste
• Revert to ‘Visual’

• Click on ‘Appearance’
• Click on ‘Menus’
• Select the menu you want to edit first and click ‘Select’
• Add your new menu item:
  • To add Pages or Posts: Tick the page you want under ‘Pages’ or ‘Posts’ (choose ‘View All’ if you can’t immediately see it)
  • To add a Link (to another site): choose ‘Custom Link’ and fill in the address/URL and the text that will be displayed
• Click ‘Add to Menu’
• Click and drag page to the relevant place
• By default the page title is displayed in the menu – however, you can change what is displayed by clicking down arrow to right of name and editing what is displayed in the menu
• REMEMBER to click ‘Save Menu’ button when you’re done

This is a menu for the list of useful pages displayed in the footer …

This is the Main Menu at the top. Notice how some pages are sub pages (indented) under a “parent” page.

This is set up as a series of ‘Sections’ that you can edit like a Page or Post.

Some of them are simply defined to display rectangles – each containing some information from a “set” of Posts or Pages that have a certain category. So to change them you can add/delete Posts/Pages and or edit the relevant Post/Page and set or clear their categories.

News and Events: displays Posts with category ‘Home page news and events’

Centre facilities: displays Pages with category ‘Facilities’

This is made up of four areas:

1. Useful links [1st column]
   • To edit the entries shown: modify the ‘Footer Useful Pages’ menu (see the “Change a Menu” topic above)
   • To edit the title: Appearance – Widgets – Footer 1
2. Linked organisations [2nd column]
   • To edit the entries shown: modify the ‘Related Organisations’ menu (see the “Change a Menu” topic above)
   • To edit the title: Appearance – Widgets – Footer 2
3. With the support of [3rd column]
   • We recommend you contact us for this.
4. Charity and company numbers and copyright [bottom row]
   • We recommend you contact us for this.

The Home page displays all ‘POSTS’ with the category ‘Home page news and events’

The main “Events” page displays all ‘POSTS’ with category ‘Events’.

These are ALL displayed as a set of rectangles with ‘title’, ‘featured image’ and ‘excerpt’ as a description

To add a new Event or News item …

• Add a POST (see ‘add a new Post’ help)
• Enter a Title
• Set it’s categories …
  • For EVENTS: set Category to ‘Events’ AND ‘Home page news and events’ to display on both Home and Events pages
  • For NEWS ITEMS: set Category to ‘Home page news and events’ to display on just Home page
• Enter a description – displayed when someone clicks on this particular event (or post) and views it full screen
• Enter an Excerpt (you’ll find this below the main text area) – displayed in just the news/event “rectangular block” (e.g. on Home screen)
• Add a ‘Featured image’ – also displayed in just the news/event “rectangular block”
• Choose in which order the “rectangular blocks” should be displayed – use ‘Posts’ – ‘Re-order’ and click and drag posts

• IMPORTANT: set its ‘Published date’ (see green block in image – ‘Edit’ button)
  • for a specific EVENT: this is the date of the event – and controls when it is displayed as a forthcoming event or a past event
  • for a specific NEWS ITEM: this is the date it is to be displayed until
  • for ongoing EVENTS: you’ll have to put a date far into the future so that it always shows – this does mean that it will display as the last event (as they are in date coming up order)

This page has quite a few complicated codes and layout options on it.

So edit it with care and/or call us to update it.

To edit “Hire costs” see lower down this list.

This uses the “TablePress” feature.

You can edit this table either from the DashBoard – TablePress OR go to the Classes page and you’ll see and Edit button at the bottom of the table itself (only visisble when you are logged in to the site).

Any title (such as Art or Dance) add this code round it so that it displays highlighted and slightly larger
<span class=”classheading”>Art</span>

Remember to click on the “Save  Changes” button at the top of the edit screen once you have finished.

The main “Equipment for hire” page displays a set of rectangles – each one from the relevant Post with the category “Equipment”.

To add a new Equipment …

• Add a POST for the Equipment (see ‘add a new Post’ help)
• Set its Category to be “Equipment” item
• Enter a description – displayed when someone clicks on this particular equipment and views it full screen
• Enter an Excerpt (you’ll find this below the main text area) – displayed in just the equipment “rectangular block” (e.g. on Equipment summary page)
• Add a ‘Featured image’ – also displayed in just the news/event “rectangular block”
• Choose in which order the “rectangular blocks” should be displayed – use ‘Posts’ – ‘Re-order’ and click and drag posts

The Home page and the main “Facilities” page both display a set of rectangles – each one from the relevant Page with the category “Facilities”.

So to add a new facility you simply add a new Page with that category …

• Add a PAGE for the Facility (see ‘add a new page’ help)
• Make sure you set its Parent to be the main ‘Facilities’ page
• Set its Category to be “Facilities”
• Choose in which order the “rectangular blocks” (e.g. on Home screen) should be displayed – ‘Order’ is on right hand side below ‘Categories’
• Enter a description – displayed when someone clicks on this particular ‘Facility’ and views it full screen
• Enter an Excerpt (you’ll find this below the main text area) – displayed in just the facility “rectangular block” (e.g. on Home screen)
• Add a ‘Featured image’ – also displayed in just the facility “rectangular block”
• Finally, add this page to the Main Menu in the relevant position (see ‘Menu’ help)

To change the Hire Costs

• Go to the ‘Book a room’ page (not in edit mode but in normal view)
• As long as you have Logged in to the site, you should see a small blue ‘Edit’ button at the bottom. Click this.
• To add a row:
  • Tick (far left box) the row, above which you want to add a new row
  • In the ‘Table Manipulation’ section below – choose ‘Selected rows: Insert’
  • Fill in the cells
• To delete a row:
  • Tick (far left box) the row you want to delete
  • In the ‘Table Manipulation’ section below – choose ‘Selected rows: Delete’
• Edit cell contents normally
• Finally remember to click ‘Save Changes’ button at top

To add a new newsletter

• Upload new newsletter PDF using ‘Media’
• Copy its URL
• Go to the ‘newsletter’ post
• Change the two links to the new URL:
  • one in text
  • one on image
• Change “Published on” date to be the date the next newsletter is due
• Click ‘Update’

Remember to delete the old newsletter PDF from ‘Media’ to keep things tidy

• Upload new PDF using ‘Media’
• Copy its URL
• Update any relevant links in Pages and/or Posts to this new URL

Remember to delete the old PDF from ‘Media’ to keep things tidy

These forms are defined in ‘Ninja Forms’ (only available to Administrators)

These allow you to change the following:

• Confirmations: the subject and contents of the confirmation email automatically sent out (to the person completing the form)
• Notifications: the subject and contents of the notification email automatically sent out (to us – the staff of the Centre)
• The contents and format of the form

You can also look at and/or export all previous entries for either of these forms.

[columns] [col_one_third]xxxx[/col_one_third] [col_one_third]xxxx[/col_one_third] [col_one_third]xxxx[/col_one_third] [/columns]

Would give something like this …

xxxx                                      xxxx                               xxxx

More help here https://intercom.help/bizbudding/mai-theme/shortcodes/columns-col

Use a combination of …

<a href=”#anchor1“>Title for the jump</a>

which will look like this Title for the jump

and this (which is where you’ll jump to) …

<a name=”anchor1“></a>

usually have to make sure the anchor location itself is a little higher than the place you want to jump to.