BRIDGE WEBSITE AUTHOR’S GUIDE
BRIDGE Author Guide
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Welcome! BRIDGE is an online student initiated platform promoting creative practice, inspiring new initiatives, and advocating for community outreach. The website is an open platform for distributing information about the breadth of activities to the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and the broader design community. We welcome interested community members to contribute to the content of the BRIDGE website. As an Author you have freedom to initate or select feature topics, events and subject matter on which to focus. This document explains how to use the WordPress system to author and edit content on the BRIDGE website.
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GETTING AN ACCOUNT Interested in joinging the BRIDGE Author team? Email us! bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com • Send us you full name and email • We will create you a username and temporary password for you • You will receive the login information via email
LOGGING IN http://waterlooarchitecture.com/bridge/wp-admin/ Logging into the backend of the BRIDGE site is simple! • We run an installation of WordPress, hosted locally on a rented server. • To log-in, go to the link above or click login at the bottom of the BRIDGE homepage and type in your username and password
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DASHBOARD You will land on the Dashboard From here, navigate to the Posts section in the sidebar
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You can also navigate to: MEDIA: to see all of the images & files hosted on the site USERS: to add or edit usernames SETTINGS: for advanced options associated with web design, etc
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BEFORE YOU POST Consider the type of post, topic, and target audience. The four main types of posts are: 1. Projects 2. Features 3. Series 4. Events Projects are posts covering undergraduate, graduate, and faculty work. Features highlight a unique initiative, event and happening within or at the fringes of the school community. Series carry a theme through multiple posts authored by different people. Current ongoing themes include Nourish, Studio Soundtrack, Recently Read, Co-op City Guides, Re:Post, Lecture Series and Interview. Events are posts that note an upcoming BRIDGE event or describe an event that already happened.
When authoring a post, consider if it is: 1. Applicable to the whole school and potentially the community beyond. 2. Interesting, inspiring or informative and contributes to life within the Waterloo School of Architecture and its broader community
The above information is only intended to provide guidance when writing a post. We are open to new ideas, series and topics. If there is something you’re motivated to write about, just let us know!
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POSTING You can see an overview of all of the posts, published or in Draft
From here you can sort by post type and edit categories & tags
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FEATURED IMAGE, CATEGORIES & TAGS Information about the post
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1. Pick a Category Make sure you are aware what you are posting for, and file it in the appropriate category! This is important for maintaining organization of the site etc.
2. Set a Featured Image This will be the image that shows up on the front page of BRIDGE. All other images will simply appear in the full post.
3. Add tags List key words and names to make the post more easily and frequently located through search engines.
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POST CONTENT Writing the post
Inserting Title and Body Text It’s advisable to write posts in an external word processor and then bring the content into WordPress once it’s near completion.
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POST CONTENT Inserting body images
Select Add Media This will produce a window in which you can upload and modify images. All images should be of high quality and scaled to 900px wide.
Image Editing Under the Media Library tab, select Edit Image on the far right to crop, rotate or scale images to 900px wide. Afterwards select Insert Image and it will appear in the body of your post.
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PUBLISHING A POST Final steps
Saving a Post While working on a post, always save it as a ‘Draft’ in the Publish window until it is ready to be published. This is very important!
Change to ‘Save as Pending’ Once the post is complete change the status from ‘Draft’ to ‘Pending Review.’ If you have been working with an Editor, notify them the post is ready and they willl work with you to have it published onto BRIDGE. Author Guide
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