User Guide: Info for Parents What Scouts Do

Here are the instructions on how to change the wording or the photo in the boxes on the ‘What Scouts Do’ page that appears under ‘Info for Parents’.

To Change a photo

  1. Make sure your new photo is 800px wide by 450px high – this is very important.  If you do not have photo editing software, download GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program – its free and very good
  2. On the dashboard menu select ‘Media’
  3. Upload your new image using ‘select files’
  4. Once the image is loaded into the library (it will be the first image on the top line), single click the image which will open ‘attachment details’
  5. scroll down to where there is a button ‘Copy URL to clipboard’, and click it.  You will then see a mesage saying the url has been copied.
  6. Close the media ibrary using the X in the right hand corner of the pop-up screen
  7. On the dashboard menu select ‘Variable Values’
  8. Scroll down until you find an entry called ‘Parents Scout Image’ (where Scout could be Beaver, Cub, Explorer, Network or Volunteer as required)
  9. Click ‘Edit’
  10. Do NOT change the Variable Name
  11. Click in the field called ‘Value’, press CTRL A then CTRL V – this will overwrite the existing value with the one you copied at step 5 above.  You can use the mouse to select the old value, and then CTRL V or whatever method you are comfortable to paste from the clipboard
  12. Press ‘Save’
  13. When you refresh the ‘What scouts do pae’ your new image will be displayed.

 

To Change the wording

  1. Decide on your new wording – it must be beteen 52 and 90 characters including spaces
  2. On the dashboard menu select ‘Variable Values’
  3. Scroll down until you find an entry called ‘Parents Scouts’ (where Scouts could be Beavers, Cubs, Explorers, Network or Volunteers as required)
  4. Click ‘Edit’
  5. Do NOT change the Variable Name
  6. Click in the field called ‘Value’, press CTRL A and ‘Delete’ to remove the exising entry
  7. Type in your new wording (or paste it)
  8. Press ‘Save’
  9. When you refresh the ‘What scouts do page’ your new image will be displayed.