Editing Strong Star Website
Login
Login Issues
Editing Webpages
Edit Page Banners
Adding new items to the website.
Add News
Editing the news date.
Add Featured Videos to News/Posts
Set Featured News Story
Add Publications
Add custom link box in sidebar to news/posts or publications
Add new Research Project
Add new project category (same method applies to project sites)
Edit project categories
Add Investigators for Projects
Creating a child page
Customizing page url/slug
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Visit the “login” page on your website: https://campaigns.uthscsa.edu/strongstar/login
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Editing Webpages
Use the Edit Page link to edit the page banner and to edit News/Posts, Research Projects and Publications.
Use the WPBakery Page Builder link to edit the content beneath the banner on regular webpages (pages that are not news/posts, projects or publications.) See instructions here.
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Edit Page Banners
Click on Edit Page in the top toolbar
Scroll down to Page Banner Customization section
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Adding new items to the website.
- Pages
- News or Posts
- Investigators
- Projects
- Publications
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Add News
From the top toolbar select +New > Posts
Editing the news date
The publishing options are on the right side when you edit a news post. Click on Edit under Published on to change the date of the news item.
If you would like the news story to not appear within the Strong Star website, but instead immediately link out to an external news source, use the External Permalinks Redux field.
Add Featured Videos to News/Posts
Enter the YouTube share link in the Featured YouTube Video field to add a large video in the left column.
You may also add video in the right column of a news/post in the Sidebar additional content field. Click on Add Media button, click on Insert from url, enter the YouTube share link, and click on Insert into Post button.
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Set Featured News Story
There must be at least 2 featured stories for this section to display on the news directory.
To add items to this section on the News Directory, edit the individual post.
Scroll down to Custom post fields, and place a check next to Featured Story. And click on the Update button.
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Add Publications
From the top toolbar select +New > Publication
Add custom link box in sidebar to news/posts or publications
Start typing a word describing the desired icon
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Add new Research Project
From the top toolbar select +New > Project
Add new project category (same method applies to project sites)
These can be added while creating/editing a project by clicking on Add New Project Category.
Edit project categories
From the admin dashboard left toolbar select Project Categories under Projects
Add Investigators for Projects
From the top toolbar select +New > Investigator
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Creating a child page
A new page with the breadcrumb nested under the parent page
Edit the Page and select the Parent page under Page Attributes.
Select Basic Page (Breadcrumbs Enabled) for the Template.
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Customizing page url/slug
By default a child page will contain its parents slug in the url.
Example: https://campaigns.uthscsa.edu/strongstar/treatment/headache/
To remove this or customize a page url, click on Permalink Manager button while Editing a Page. Enter the desired url in the Custom permalink field.
