MA Project DevelopmentWeek Two | WordPress & Running a Website

Week TwoWordPress & Running a Website

Contents

1. Themes2. Post, Pages & Custom Post Types3. Categories & Tags4. Menus & Navigation5. Widgets6. User Roles7. Editing & Publishing Posts8. Adding Media9. Comments

10. Other Things to Remember!

Themes

WINOLWP Newspaper by Gabfire Themes

Here & Now MagazineStylebook by Gabfire Themes

Journalism NowCity Desk by Gabfire Themes

The Justice GapTBC

The VoltMH Magazine Lite by MH Themes

Absolute:lyHTML5 Blank by Todd Motto

New Winchester ReviewSight by WPShower

Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types

Content Types

PostsNewsBlog

PagesStatic single page contentAboutServices

Custom Post TypesAnything where default content types don’t work

Categories & Tags

Ways to group content

CategoriesEvery post must be assigned to at least one categoryCan be set in a hierarchyGeneral, high-level way of grouping your contentSite usually only has 6 / 12 categories

TagsOptionalExist separately to other tagsMore specificSites often have a lot of these

Menus & Navigation

Menus

By default all new pages are added to the main navigation

To edit menus you will need admin level access

Widgets

Widgets

Found within: appearance / widgets

Special types of content you can drag and drop from within the admin area.

Requires admin level access to edit.

Drag and drop widgets into widget area.

Additional widgets can be found in ‘plugins’ section.

User Roles

AdminManage contentHow the site looksHow the site works

EditorEdit content

Two standard user roles in WordPress

Adding & Editing Posts

Field Description

Title Headline

Body Main body of article

Video URL for video

SEO Title A search friendly version of title - max 70 characters

Description A snippet of text for use in search engine results pages (SERPs) - max 155 characters

Keywords No need to use this!

Noindex / nofollow Tell search engines to avoid indexing page and to avoid ‘following’ links from this page

NOODP / NOYDIR As search engine to ignore directory listings

Status Draft / pending review / published

Visibility / publish date Choose whether public or private and schedule / amend publish date

Category / tags Categorise the content

Featured image Main image for the post - often used by the theme

Adding Media

Title only applies to back-end of site

Used by search engines and screen readers (for visually impaired)

Optional caption can be used to accompany the image

Comments

Make comment live

Marks user’s name and IP as spam

Moderate comment

Indents response as a reply post

Other Things to Remember

UpdatesEnsure you update WordPress and plugins whenever required - this can help stop your site getting hacked!

PluginsDon’t install any old plugin - bad and unnecessary plugins can slow down your site / cause unexpected side effects!