• Logging In
• The WordPress Dashboard

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• Website pages consist of 1 or more “page content builder strips”
• 15+ WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant strips to choose from
• Drag-and-drop order
• Examples of each strip included on our Demo website’s “Sample Page”

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• Dashboard > Site Options
• Tick “Show Site Notice”
• Add title
• Add additional content (if needed)
• Add link (if needed)
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Pages / News / Venues / People / Events
• Edit Page / News / Venue / People / Event
• Page Meta box
• Add meta title
• Add meta description
• Add social media sharing image (1,200px wide x 630px high ideal size)
• Hide this page from search engines – select “No – keep page visible” or “Yes – hide from search engines”
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Pages / News / Venues / People / Events
• Edit Page / News / Venue / People / Event
• Page Header Settings box
• Add main title and subtitle (optional)
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Pages / News / Venues / People / Events
• Edit Page / News / Venue / People / Event
• Page Header Settings box
• Tick “Show Popular Links”
• Popular Links – add title
• Popular Links – add link text and link
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Pages
• Edit Page “Services”
• Services Page Info box
• Popular Searches – add word(s)
• Popular Links – add title
• Other Tier Council Links – add link text (label) and link

• Dashboard > Services > Add New
• Add title
• Add link (if needed)
• Click “Publish”

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• Dashboard > Pages
• Edit Page “Contact”
• Contact Info box
• Add title
• Add opening times (optional)
• Add address (optional)
• Add top image (optional)
• Add email & telephone
• Add address for map pin
• Search for address and click to select
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Venues > Add New
• Venue Info box
• Add opening times – labels & Times (optional)
• Add venue phone number and email address (optional)
• Add contact form title and intro
• Use shortcode [opening_times] to output opening times
• Use shortcode [venue_phone] and [venue_email] to output venue’s phone & email
• Page Content Builder box
• Add page builder strips
• Click “Publish”

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• Dashboard > People
• Add a new person, put their name as the title
• Upload their picture to Thumbnail
• Add any position they have as the Summary (optional)
• Use the pagebuilder to add their information (we recommend the 2 column layout, put their photo in the left WYSIWYG and their bio in the right, and make the left column 30% width)
• Save the person
• On your Councillors page, use the pagebuilder “Text + People” and select each person you want to show
• Choose whether you want people to the right, or in a row (with more than 6, “text above, people below” is better)
• Save the page

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• Council Events = Events run by your council, each event has its own page on the council website
• Community Events = Events not run by the council, no page on the council website – instead links to an external website (optional)

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• Dashboard > Council Events
• Edit Event
• Summary box (right hand column)
• Thumbnail > Add image > Upload (385px wide x 330px ideal size)
• Add description
• Click “Update”

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• Dashboard > Council Events
• Drag and Drop Events to correct order (top Event will appear first on Council Events page)

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• Dashboard > Community Events
• Add Event
• Add title
• Add link (optional)

• Dashboard > Community Events
• Drag and Drop Events to correct order (top Event will appear first on Community Events page)

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• Dashboard > News
• Add News Post
• Add title
• Page Content Builder box
• Add page builder strips
• Categories box (right hand column)
• Tick relevant category
• Summary box (right hand column)
• Thumbnail > Add image > Upload (385px wide x 330px ideal size) for News summary page
• Add description for News summary page
• Click “Publish”

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• Dashboard > edit a page
• Navigate to content area where text is to be pasted
• Note: ‘T’ in a clipboard symbol in toolbar
• Navigate to source Word doc or website
• Select > copy (CNTRL & ‘C’ or right-click & ‘copy’)
• Navigate to web page
• Press the ‘T’ clipboard symbol  -blue confirmation message appears
• Place cursor where text is to be pasted
• Right-click and select ‘paste’ or (CNTRL & ‘V’ on your keyboard)
• Text appears unformatted ready for any styling
• Click ‘publish’ (or ‘update’ if an existing page)

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• Dashboard > menus
• Make the individual menus you want to appear in your mega nav (max x3)
• Navigate to ‘primary navigation’ menu
• Add a ‘custom’ link and label it (e.g services)
• Select ‘mega nav’ option
• Choose the menus for the mega nav
• Save menu

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• Edit page (or new page)
• Find or add Page Content Builder strip
• Highlight the text for the link
• Click the Link icon
• Either paste your link into the box, or search for the page on your site
• Click the blue Apply icon
• Save / Update

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• Edit page (or new page)
• Find or add Page Content Builder strip
• Place cursor where you want the link
• Click “Add Media” button
• Choose Upload, find the document on your computer and choose “Open”
• Once uploaded, give the document a descriptive title
• Click blue button Insert Into Post
• Save / Update

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• Edit page (or new page)
• Find or add Page Content Builder strip “File Links”
• Click Add File to create a new row, and then Add File in this row
• Choose Upload (or Media Library, if you already uploaded), find the document on your computer and choose “Open”
• Once uploaded, give the document a descriptive title
• Click blue button Select
• Drag and drop into desired order by clicking and holding on the row number
• Save / Update

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• Edit page (or new page)
• Find or add Page Content Builder strip (eg Two Column or Image + Text)
• Place cursor where you want the image (or click the Add Image button when using Image + Text)
• Click “Add Media” button
• Choose Upload, find the image on your computer and choose “Open”
• Once uploaded, give the image descriptive Alternative (“Alt”) Text
• Choose the image size to insert (usually, full size is better)
• Click blue button Insert Into Post
• Save / Update

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• Caused by using a photo that’s too small (smaller than the size the website display it at)
• Ideally, find a larger version of the photo or a larger alternative
• If you don’t have one available, use an alternative layout, eg 2 Column instead of Image + Text
• Add Media to upload /choose your image
• Choose the image size to insert (usually, full size is better)
• Click blue button Insert Into Post
• Use the Column Width slider to make the image column less wide
• Save / Update

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• Adding, removing & editing the position of a menu item
• Adding and creating Parent, Child & Grandchild pages
• Adding a new page to the menu
• Save / Update

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