News

Weekly Webinar: Events & Posts

In this video:

Posts:

  • 0:45: Why use “Posts” and “Events”?
  • 1:55: What do posts look like on the website?
  • 3:45: Why do we have a “News & Events” page, and a “News” page?
  • 5:50: Viewing all posts are kept in the WordPress dashboard (the “back end”)
  • 7:20: How to “Quick Edit” posts
  • 8:40: Add a new post (don’t forget the following:)
    • Title
    • Content
    • Category
    • Featured Image
  • 16:00: How to edit a “Content Grid” to display posts on pages
  • 17:30: How to pull a query of posts within the “Content Grid” module
  • 22:30: Workflow for Parish Bulletins (PDFs embedded into post, pulled in a query to website page).
  • 29:30: How post “categories” work, how to edit them

Events:

  • 31:20: Viewing all events on the dashboard
  • 32:08: How to add a new event (don’t forget the following:)
    • Title
    • Description
    • Time/Date (and any rules for repeating or excluding repeats)
    • Venue
    • Organizer
    • Category
    • Featured Image
  • 38:40: Viewing a single event
  • 39:15: Viewing the event calendar (parish calendar)
  • 40:15: How to edit “Venues”
  • 41:00: How to edit “Organizers”
  • 42:00: Pulling events into a Content Grid with a query, just like posts