User Guide: Adding, changing and removing News items

News items are displayed on the fron page.  A maximum of six will be displayed.  The news item relating to our County Newsletter will always be there.

To Add a News Item

  1. On the Dashboad, find ‘Posts’
  2. Click on Posts, the on ‘Add New’
  3. Enter the heading in the title box (keep it short)
  4. Enter the actual news in the large white box.
    1. Formatting can be added usimg the icons at the top of the big white box
  5. Scroll down/across until you find a box marked ‘Featured Image’
  6. Click on ‘Add new featured image’
  7. If the image you want already exists on the website, search through the media library unti you find it, then single click on it, and go to step 10
  8. Click Upload Files, and use the ‘select files’ to find the image required (from yourown computer)
  9. Double click your image and it will load into the media library
  10. Click blue button ‘Set featured image’
  11. If you want. you can select ‘news’ from the caegories box, but it should select this automatically when saved
  12. Find the blue ‘Publish’ button and click it.

 

To Amend a News item

  1. On the Dashboard, find ‘Posts’
  2. Select ‘All Posts’
  3. Scroll down until you find the one you wish to change, and press ‘edit Classic edit’
  4. Overtype the parts you wish to change
  5. If you wish to change the image,
    1. find the Featured Image box
    2. Click ‘remove featured image’
    3. Click on ‘Add new featured image’
    4. If the image you want already exists on the website, search through the media library unti you find it, then single click on it, and go to step 5.7
    5. Click Upload Files, and use the ‘select files’ to find the image required (from yourown computer)
    6. Double click your image and it will load into the media library
    7. Click blue button ‘Set featured image’
  6. When you have made the necessary changes, press the blue ‘Update’ button

 

To remove a news item

  1. On the Dashboard, find ‘Posts’
  2. Select ‘All Posts’
  3. Scroll down until you find the one you wish to remove, and press ‘bin’

To restore a deleted news item

If you accidentally remove the wrong news item, it can be restored:

  1. On the Dashboard, find ‘Posts’
  2. Select ‘All Posts’
  3. Near the top, is a line that icludes the word ‘bin’ (and a number in brackets)
  4. Press the word bin
  5. A list of all removed news items will be displayed.  Find the one you wish to restore, and press ‘Restore’

Note: only six items will display, sing the most recent to determine the order.