Terroir - Case Study Sites

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Writing and Managing your content

  • Get Published - Pages and Posts
  • Categories and Tags - all of your posts should be added to a category otherwise they will not be easy to find on your site.
  • Working with tables in your post
    • If you're working on your individual Terroir Journal site, you will need to activate the plugin TinyMCE before you will see the add table option.

Images, video and linked files

  • Insert an image
  • Set a featured image for each post.
  • WordPress built-in image galleries
  • Instagram Galleries of group hashtags are located in two place:
    • Sidebar Instagram gallery is located in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets in the Home Page Sidebar 2 block
    • Instagram Gallery page uses shortcode [easy-instagram tag='yourgrouphashhere' ...]
  • Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
  • Link to a file
  • Audio

Customize Your Site

From the Admin Bar choose Customize

Customize your header image

  • Add your own header image or logo via the Customize > Header Image
  • Pay attention to the suggested image dimensions - make sure your image is at least as wide as the suggested dimensions.
  • WordPress a built in cropping/scale tool so you shouldn't need to crop outside of WordPress

Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". Often times if you don't anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

  • Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar