Updating the School Website

St George’s C of E (V.A.) Primary School

General Concepts

• In the past we thought of a website as a collection of pages.• We needed to update a page and then link to it

from somewhere else on the website.• Updating a page was difficult – it was hard to

format the text and include pictures and be sure that it would then appear correctly to others viewing the pages.

General Concepts

• We need to think differently now.• Our school website has a theme which

automatically formats the pages.• The theme has been set up with various

‘containers’ to store content.• All we need to do is to put content in the

‘container’ and the website will present it for us.• This is much a much quicker process and keeps

what others view consistent.

Content

• Posts• Photo Albums• Photographs• Links• Documents• Comments

Logging On

• Each user has their own unique user name e.g. mrhewitt.• Your user name will appear at the bottom of any

post you add.• You can log on directly from the website near the

bottom of any page.

Logging On

• Log in and you will be taken to the dashboard.

DashboardClicking here will take you back to the website.

Dashboard

• As you hover over the menu at the left hand side of the dashboard new options appear.

Post

• The content you are most likely to add is a post.• A post is a piece of information you wish to display

on the website.• It may be e.g. a news item or a link to a document

that has been recently placed on the website.

Post

• Its title will appear in the Recent Posts widget in the sidebar down the left hand side of the website if it is one of the latest five posts.

Adding A Post

• Hover over Posts in the left hand menu of the dashboard and click Add New.

Adding A Post

• Enter the title (please use capital letters at the start of each word).• Enter the text you wish to write.• Choose the Category for the Post –

this is the ‘container’ for the post and how the website knows which page to display the post on.• Typically you will choose your class

but you can put it in more than one category e.g. in News as well.

Photographs

• Photographs are the other content you are likely to want to add.• Before you add photos, they need to be stored in a

folder your computer can access.• First, you need to add an Album for the

photographs.

Adding An Album

• Hover over Photo Albums in the left hand menu of the dashboard and click Album Admin.

Adding An Album

• Hover over Photo Albums in the left hand menu of the dashboard and click Album Admin.

Adding An AlbumThis is a list of all the current Albums – you may need the ID later.

Adding An Album

• Enter the name (please use capital letters at the start of each word).• Choose the parent

album.• Typically you will choose

your class but you could put it in e.g. Whole School.• Note that you don’t need

to save the album – that happens automatically.

Photographs

• Now, you can upload photographs to the album.• Click on Upload Photos.

Uploading Photos

• There are three ways to upload photos.• Whichever way

you choose, ensure that you choose the album to upload them into.

Photographs

• Photo albums automatically appear in the Photo Albums area of the website.

Photographs In Posts

• But, you can also add them to a Post as a slideshow.• Simply add the following text to your post –

[wppa type="slideonly" album="xx"][/wppa]• You will need the album number of the album you

wish to include.

Adding A Link

• Hover over Links in the left hand menu of the dashboard and click Add New.

Adding A Link

• Enter the name (please use capital letters at the start of each word).• Enter the web address of the link.• Choose the Category for the Link –

this is the ‘container’ for the link and how the website knows which page to display the post on.• You can put a link in more than one

category.

Link Categories

• Bullying Information (for documents to be included on the Anti-Bullying page).

• Child Web Links (used for links on the children’s Launchpad – note that these links need pictures).

• Derbyshire Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• Government Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• Governor Links (list of links on School Governor page).• High Peak Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• New Mills Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• Other Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• Quick Links (used for links on the homepage)• Report Abuse (do not use – used as a category for the Report Abuse link on

the sidebar)

Link Categories

• School Curriculum Information (used as a category on the Parents Information page).

• School Forms (used as a category on the Parents Information page).• School Information (used as a category on the Parents Information

page).• School Policies (used as a category on the Parents Information page).• School Prospectus (used as a category on the Parents Information page).• School Web Links (used as a category on the Links For Parents page).• Staff Information (for documents to be included on the Staff Links page –

note that this document is in this category).• Staff Web Links (used for links on the Staff Links page – note that these

links need pictures). • Website Links (a default category – do not use).

Adding A Document

• Hover over Media in the left hand menu of the dashboard and click Add New.

Adding A Document

• Add the document to the library.• Then go in to the Media Library to see all the

media.

Media Library

Selecting A Document

• Click on the document you want to use.• Select the url of the document and copy it (Ctrl-C).

Using A Document

• You can now use the url in a Post or in a Link and a hyperlink to the document will be included on the website.

Comments

• When you add a post, you can allow visitors to post comments.• The is useful if the children are blogging or if you

want comments on a particular subject.• No comments appear on the site until they have

been approved.

Quick Editing

• While you are logged on, an ‘edit’ link will appear next to the content on the website.• You can go directly to this content by clicking on the

‘edit’ link.

Quick Editing

• By using this and the link to go the website on the dashboard, you can flip between posting and viewing at how it looks on the web site without needing to keep logging in and out.