Category: 4. Advanced Editing

Reordering Menus To reorder main menu items, to to Appearance > Menus in the lefthand sidebar area. Select the menu you would like to edit from the drop down at the top of the page and hit enter. Hover your mouse over the menu item you would like to move until you see the four […]

Testimonials are incorporated into the website in two different ways. In some page templates, they are a default part of the page (see The Allegacy Difference). In others, they have a page component of their own that can be added to or removed from a page )see Debit & Credit Cards). Testimonials are pre-loaded in […]

On the right side of every page in Edit mode, you’ll see a box titled Page Attributes. There is a dropdown called Template. Each item in the dropdown is specifically designed for a certain type of page and determines which components are available to add to that page. You will likely never need to change […]

Text Edits Depending on the page layout and content, text will be edited in different components. Each page component is labeled at the top (Testimonials Section, Product Quick View, etc.), so to edit a component, scroll down the page until you find the correct area. To shorten scrolling, you may click on the arrow on […]

Edit Post option If you’re doing it from the Edit Post view, make sure that you have “Discussion” selected under screen options at the top of the page. Then scroll down to edit comment options. Quick Edit option The quick edit view is available on the All Posts view. You may have to hover just […]

To add a link to a location lower down the page, you will need to set an anchor and then link to the anchor. The Steps for Standard Anchor Links Create an anchor by selecting the full paragraph, heading, or bullet point that is the destination and then click the “Add / Edit Attribute” tool. […]

With the right file extension and a little CSS in the website’s theme stylesheet, your website can automatically display an icon along side your document when you link to a document with no extra work. The following links do not link to actual documents but demonstrate how this feature is used. If your current website […]

HTML view is encouraged for editors with HTML expertise. In the HTML view you can see the HTML being outputted to the content section of your website. The Visual editor in WordPress is very powerful but sometimes will insert HTML that isn’t needed or desired. Content for posts and pages can be cleaned up using […]

Featured images are used to display images outside of the normal content area. This is commonly used to display a small thumbnail image next to your blog posts on your homepage, or a special image in the sidebar. Adding Featured Images Log into the WordPress admin. Select a post or page. Click “Set featured image” […]

Different versions of WordPress and different plugins handle embedding videos differently. You can typically add a YouTube by doing the following. Visit the video you want to embed on YouTube. Click “Share” and then “Embed” to get your <iframe> code. Adjust the <iframe> width and height if needed (check your site guide for ideal widths […]