StudioPress User's Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet is for any custom design based on StudioPress themes. The Featured Content Gallery(FCG) - this is the slideshow that is across the home page. 1.  To get an image to show up in the Featured Content Gallery: create a new post with title, text (if desired), and images (if desired, not necessary) upload the picture for the FCG to your flickr account or media library from Media>>Add New copy the picture's URL to your clipboard go back to the post you added, and below the post >> edit box, find the "Custom Field" box. enter "articleimg" in the Key box, and … [Read more...]

How to Order Pages

To order Pages on your nav-bar: 1.  Go to Pages Admin Panel. 2.  Hover over a page, and click "quick edit". OR 2.  Hover over a pge, and click on "edit". 3.  In a Page, find Attributes >> Order.  In the quick edit screen, find "order". 4.  Enter an order number for that page.*** 4.  Click Save/Update. ***Use 1000's for the top layer of Pages and separate by 5's. This will leave you room to add pages without re-numbering all preceding pages.  The top level pages will be numbered like this: 1010 - 1015- 1020 -and so on.  Sub-page(2nd layer) will start with 2000's so they … [Read more...]

10 Tips to Keep Posts Organized

One of the risks of blogging is that a lot of your best writing may get lost under a pile of reverse chronologically organized posts.  Let's keep the best writing front and center, shall we? Built-In Organization 1.  Use PAGES like they were intended.  From the WordPress codex: Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal … [Read more...]

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