Introducing Astra 2 – our new Gutenberg Enabled WordPress theme! This theme allows for a logo upload, transparent header option, and fully customizable page templates using the block editor and layouting options. Websites need to adhere to WCAG Guidelines and Standards. Please contact LSA Technology Services if you’d like more information or would like help…
Category: Introduction
The Appearance Tab…
The following links provide information on Widgets, Menus, and the customizer which are found under the Appearance tab in your WordPress dashboard.
Understanding your WP dashboard
This link describes the Dashboard Screen and what you’ll see at first glance in your WP dashboard. You will likely spend the most time in Pages or Posts either editing existing content or creating new content.
The Media Library
In our multisite network each site under WordPress Websites has its own separate database tables. That means that images, files, and videos that you upload for your site are only available to you and will not appear in any other site’s media library.
The Visual Editor
The visual editor is where you will add and edit your sites content and it appears when editing posts and pages. In the visual editor you will see lots of options to format your text and add symbols, shortcodes, images, and maps, but you will not find an area to increase font size or change…
Learn basics on WordPress Pages
Pages make up the largest WordPress component that sites use in our multisite network. Think of pages as where you display static content. Pages can support using various plugins, displaying embedded videos, images, PDFs, etc. Learn more about pages and what they are and are not in the article below: PAGES
Videos on Posting with WordPress
Posts are more of the ‘blog’ type of function for WordPress and generally used for adding frequently updated content as they appear in reverse chronological order on your site – the ‘freshest’ content is at the top. Here is more information from the WordPress Codex on posts and it includes best practices for writing them.…
Working with Images
Adding new images to your WordPress post or page is simple and there are multiple ways to do it.