Newsies Team: Working with WordPress
While some folks on the Newsies Team may wish to simply send their posts to the Yahoo! Group, and allow others to post their items for them, it's much easier on everyone if all team members learn to use the WordPress system.
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WordPress is the world's most popular blogging system, and it's on the of the simplest Content Management Systems on the planet. Pretty much anyone can learn how to use WordPress in about 15 minutes.
Below, you'll find some "prerequisite" things you need to do to make sure you're ready to help on the team, and also some links to tutorials that ensure you're ready to work with WordPress on our site.
Logging in to the system
Please use the URL provided by the Newsies team to log in to the system.
If you were a member before November, 2010, you should have received your user name and password automatically from the system when it came online in that month.
If you joined after November, 2010, you should have received your user name and password after you graduated from training.
Your Display Name
When you log in to the system and look to the upper right-hand corner of your screen, you should see your user name a link to "Log Out." The user name displayed in that location is the same user name that will be displayed any time you post something on the news. As such, you'll want it to be descriptive enough so that people know who you are, when you post.
To change your display name, follow these directions:
- Access your User Profile
- Change the value next to Display name publicly as under Basic Details
- It's best to use your primary character name here, i.e.- Tristan Wolf. Whether you use your rank is up to you.
- Click Update Profile
Creating and Editing Posts
Ready to create a new post? Check out this video to learn more about how it works:
Important note
Pay special attention in the video to previewing how your post will look, once it's published.
Before publishing any post, make sure that there are no special fonts in your text. This is only important if you've copied and pasted content into the post window. WordPress will save the same formatting you had wherever the text came from, and you'll want to make sure to remove that extra formatting, so that our posts all appear uniform in nature.
Pre-Submission Check-list
Before you submit your post, please check the following:
- Have you followed all the rules and guidelines on the Style Guide page?
- Have you added only one category to your post? If there's more than one, please remove the category that least describes your post.
- Have you checked "Yes" in the "Post to Twitter" option of the "Twitter Tools" box? (See this image for clarification.)
- Have you included an image in your post?
- Have you clicked the "Preview" button to ensure that the post looks right?
Posts not showing up automatically?
Most people are set to "Contributor" status on the system, which means that all your posts will be reviewed before they're posted on the main news. This allows us to review posts for quality standards. Once you've submitted three good articles, you'll be moved up to "Author" status, where you'll be able to automatically publish your posts.