Writing For and Managing This Site

Front Page

Different Front Pages For Different Languages

The content for the three front pages are stored in “Pages.” They should all have the “Front Page” category (which is how the site knows that they should look like front pages). The name for each of the front pages should be the site title in that language (ie “Interior Migrations” or “移途记忆”) because the text that’s shown in the title of the tab or window uses that information (eg the “title” for the Spanish front page is “Migraciones Internas | Interior Migrations”). Each of the front pages needs to contain the text “[backgroundslideshow],” which is how the site knows to make the background of the page a slideshow.

The English front page is the main front page for the site—eg, interiormigrations.com. The Spanish and Chinese front pages are kept at eg interiormigrations.com/es and interiormigrations.com/cn respectively.

Front Page Slideshow

The front page slideshow has six images. You can change them by going to the “Background Slideshow” page, under “Appearance.”

Posts

Order of Posts

The posts on the category pages show up in the order in which they are published. You can change the order by changing the date for the post (find the post on the “All Posts” page, click “Quick Edit,” then change the date and time). You can also make a post “sticky” inside it’s category, which will make it always appear at the top of the list regardless of when it was published. You can only have one sticky post per category, though. You can set a post as sticky from the “Category Sticky” box on the post editing page, or from “Quick Edit” in the list of posts. This could be turned on by installing a plugin which isn’t installed right now.

Post Categories

When you write a post, it needs to be given a couple of categories: first, the category which corresponds to the language that it’s written in, and second, the category that you want it to be filed under (About, Research, Artworks… or Acerca De, Investigacions, Obras…). The language category is how the website knows which line in the site title should be bold, as well as which language the navigation menu should be in. The type-of-post category is how the site knows which line in the navigation menu should be bold.

Post Title Banners

To pick the image for the background behind a post’s title, set the post’s “Featured Image.” If no image is selected, a solid colour is shown instead.

Post Sub-Titles

If you want to add a sub-title to a post, write it in the “Excerpt” box at the bottom of the post editor.

Embedding Videos

To add a video from Vimeo into a post:

  1. Go to the video on Vimeo
  2. The web address in your browser’s location bar should be something like: vimeo.com/37495699
  3. Copy the number from the end of the address
  4. Go to the post editor, and click on the ‘Text’ tab that’s near the top-right corner of the text-entry area.
  5. Find the spot in the post where you want the video to go, and paste in this:
    <style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style><div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https://player.vimeo.com/video/11712103' frameborder='0' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div>
  6. Change the number at the end of ‘https://player.vimeo.com/video/########’ to the number you copied earlier (eg 37495699)
  7. Go back to the ‘Visual’ editing tab

 Post Formatting Tips

  • You can add captions to your images, but each image can only have one caption—so if you use the same image in multiple places on the site, it will always have the same caption. You can get around this by uploading multiple copies of the same image.
  • You can include image galleries by clicking “Add Media” and selecting “Create Gallery” from the menu on the left.
  • The title for your post is a “Heading 1”, so if you want to use headings in your post, it’s best to start with “Heading 2”.
  • You can add footnotes like this: “a quote which needs to be cited”[note]The Author, The Book, 123.[/note]
  • If there are gaps in your post when you publish it, make sure you haven’t accidentally created any “empty” paragraphs.
  • Always check what your post looks like when you finish writing it!

Menus

Site Title

The site titles are kept in a menu (Appearance – Menu). This needs to be associated with the “Titles Menu” theme location. Each of the menu items needs to have a “title attribute” which is the code for the language the title is in; ie, the “Interior Migrations” entry needs the title attribute “EN,” and the “Migraciones Internas” needs “ES.”

Navigation Menus

There are three navigation menus, one per language. Each one has to be associated with the appropriate theme location; “English Navigation,” “Spanish Navigation,” and “Chinese Navigation.”