General Information

Here is where your blog posts are handled. Depending on what you want the page to look like you can either use Wordpress or Elementor. For more basic layouts use wordpress and for more intricate blog posts use Elementor.


Where you can view these on the front end?


The 3 most recent blog posts will show on the home page, and you can view a full archive of posts on the “Blog” page.




Guide

This is a combined guide on how to add a blog post, news post, and events post, since they all use the same functionality.


Please Follow The Diagram:


Adding a New blog post:


Navigate to the WordPress Dashboard and select Post > Add New Post. The numbers below match the 


  1. This is the post title. Wordpress limits you to 60 characters, please refrain from using titles longer than the allowed limit.

  2. Here is the post content, this is where the main part of your blog post will go.

    1. You can copy your content from a word doc and wordpress will try to keep all the styling you used in your document, but you will need to check it to make sure it looks good. 

    2. By pressing the [+] button you will be able to see the available wordpress widgets you can put in the post. These include, images, videos, list, forms, and much more. Here is a more Extensive guide that goes over everything you can do with the wordpress widget block. [View Guide]

  3. If this post has a featured video please add it here.

    1. Use the radio buttons to choose whether the video is Youtube or Vimeo.

    2. A URL field will show up below the field, paste in the whole Video URL.

  4. This is where you set the featured image for the post.

    1. The featured image is also how you set a custom share link thumbnail. Like the image that shows when you paste the link in facebook. If you set a featured image then the website will use that image to show the link preview thumbnail.

  5. If you think this post needs to be styled a little differently then you are able to edit this post with Elementor as well. By clicking this link the page will direct you to the elementor Editor and replace any of the content you have written in the (2) area of the post.

    1. Here is the [Basic Elementor Guide], you can use this guide to set up Elementor Pages