Please also read the Website Style Guide. It contains additional guidance in creating content on the website.
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This will not be a "just read this" guide to learn everything you need. This is a beginning and notes of things that are unique to our site. There are a lot of guides for beginning WordPress authors on YouTube or, if you prefer, in the WordPress Codex or various online sites.
The language of web browsers is HTML. The HTML is styled with CSS. The HTML communicates with the site's databases via PHP or JavaScript. Experts will tell you this is not exactly right. For now just know that these languages require that they be written each with their set of rules and that you will not be needing to learn any of them. The systems we have in place: WordPress, Genesis Framework, Dynamik Child Theme and Beaver Builder all work between the code and us. Thank Goodness.
There are some foundation things you do need to know. These include:
- We can have Posts, as in Blog Posts and Pages. You will be working exclusively with Posts. The line between them has become blurred over time. But remember you are always looking to write a Post.
- You will have a Model or Template to work from. (We use the word Model since Template means something else in WordPress). This may change in the future as we learn more.
- You never edit the Model for a Post. You always edit a Copy or Clone of the Model. If you want the Model Changed, Talk to the Webmaster.
- Excerpts are important and need to be Always included.
- Categories are important. You will be assigned a Category for your post (almost always). Do not add Categories. Do not select two categories. If your Category is wrong you will not get the behavior you wish from your Post. By convention, Categories are Capitalized.
- Tags are additional taxonomy. You may add and create tags as you wish. Their only use is to aid in search. By convention, tags are not Capitalized and always written in lower case.
- Noting on the website is written in ALL CAPS. It is not our style. Now, of course, The exception is acronyms such as JPG and the rare proper nouns, ISO is the name of the standards organization. It is not an acronym but they choose to spell it in all caps. Raw is correctly written raw not RAW. It is not an acronym.
- Slugs are "pretty" permalinks—kind of. Generally, do not add anything to the "slug" field if it happens to be visible. We will discuss how to edit permalinks later.
To get started, (you have read and studied, yes?) go to Posts|All Post in the dashboard and find your Model Post. Clone it and begin editing the clone as below. In no time you will be a WordPress Blogger.
1 – You must title the page. The page may be sest to show or not to show the default is to show. So when you repeat the title in the text content box you have the title or heading showinig twice on the page. The solution is simply not to repeat the title in the lower text section.
2 – You choose either the text editor (this section) or the Beaver Builder Page Builder. Choose the text editor unless your have set up a template in Beaver Builder with the webmaster. Do not make a choice here until the other elements on the page have been set.
3 – The Button and insert shortcodes here are being depreciated. Please do no use them. When the plugins are deleted the page will look horrible. These are left over from the old website and they are preventing us from upgrading to PHP 7.
4 – When you are writing your post you need to decide how you wish to save your work. You may choose a Draft or Publish with the post set to Private. It will help you to be consistent but there is no foul for changing up.
5 – You can set the post to publish in the future or at once.
6 – This will say Publish or Update or Save (for Draft).
7 – This is very important. Chose one, only one category. By tradition, Categories are written with Capitalized names, tags are written in all lower case. If you forget the default, Uncategorized, will be chosen for you.
8 – This is where you choose the style, Paragraph or the H tags (1 -6). These are defined at the theme level to help the site look consistent.
Links, or more properly hyperlinks, are the backbone of the functionality of the internet. Contained herein is a guide to how our website uses hyperlinks both the technical how-to and the styling that is used to be both consistent and modern.
The following accordion give you detailed instructions on creating links. Even if you feel you know how to do it please read since in contains information on the form for our site also. There should never or rarely be a need to show the link in open text on our site. In other words instead of saying:
https://jaxcameraclub.com/town-hall/guide-to-lightroom
say:
Guide to Lightroom
And make "Guide to Lightroom" the link.
The following will show you how. Thanks.