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[printfriendly]Index of Documentation:
• Publishing edits
• Menu editing
• Changing a post’s URL
• Header-block editing
• Downloadable file linking
• Using Clicky
1. Locating a page
Enter a word into the search box and click ‘Search Posts’ button. This generates a list of all posts that contain your search term.
2. Using “Preview Changes“
This will open a new tab in your browser, showing you a preview of the edited post. Always check and confirm an edited post using the “Preview Changes” button before you publish to the live server (Step 6, below). If post/page looks correct, simply close the tab and return to the “Edit Page” screen in WordPress for Step 6 (Update).
3. Updating to live server.
This updates the website with the edited post.
4. Menu editing.
Go to the “Dashboard > Appearance > Menus” section of the WP back end.
(1) Find the article you wish to add to the menu in the list (you can Search by name, if you don’t see it immediately) and click the checkbox next to post that you wish to add to menu.
(2) Click button “Add to Menu” (the post will then appear at the bottom of the right pane, ready to move).
(3) Adjust the new item’s position in list of items by click-holding and dragging it.
(4) Lastly, publish the updated menu by clicking the blue “Save Menu” button.
5. Changing a URL
Change the URL of a particular post by changing it’s “Permalink” slug in the edit screen for that page.
6. Header-block editing.
Visit the page you wish to edit and click “Edit Page” in WP black bar at top. Then scroll down to bottom of the Edit screen to find “Page Options” box.
To change the photograph, scroll down till you see the old image and click the minus (“-“) sign to delete that image (see #1. in illustration below). Then click the plus sign (“+”) to upload and add a new image (see #2. in illustration below).
You can also control the size of the header block by changing the percentage of the page that it fills, and by specifying a minimum size (vertical) for the block itself.
7. Downloadable file linking
Linking to a downloadable file (Word, PDF, PPTX, XLS, etc) is very similar to adding an image to a post. But instead of inserting the image onto the page, you upload the file (PDF, etc) and acquire this file’s URL from WordPress. You then set this URL as a link to some text (or button, image, etc.) in the post. Adding a downloadable file link has three basic steps: 1) upload the file, 2) copy the URL, and then 3) apply that URL as a link to something on the page (text, button, image, etc).
Step 1 — Upload the PDF/Word file using the ‘Add Media’ button, just as you’d upload an image file.
Step 2 — On the INSERT MEDIA screen, drag-and-drop your PDF/Word file to upload it to WordPress. After it has uploaded, find the “URL” box for that newly uploaded document and highlight the URL (double-click it) to select the entire URL. Copy this URL (command-C). Then simply close the INSERT MEDIA screen by clicking the “x” in the upper right corner. You do not need to click the blue-button “Insert into post” because you do not need to actually insert the PDF/Word file to the page. All you need to do is copy the URL from this INSERT MEDIA screen.
Step 3 — Back on the post’s edit screen, highlight the text (or button, image, etc) that you wish to be the download link. Then click the “Link tool” button in the toolbar. Paste the URL into the entry field and hit the blue “arrow” button to apply the link to the object (text, button, image, etc). Now, whenever that object is clicked by a user, it will start a download of the file based on the URL you entered for the link.
As a last step, preview your edit to make sure the link properly downloads the file when clicked. Then publish the changed page using the blue “Update” button.
8. Using Clicky
You can access the Clicky analytics data from the top (black) menu or by using this link:
Step 1 — Set the time-span for which you want to see analytics using the date drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the Clicky screen:
Step 2 — click on one of the topics in the gray menu bar… or expand any item for great details or a report.
