Submitting Articles and Events

This page contains the help notes for the webmasters and assistants to use when submitting Articles, Announcements and Events such as Zoom Meetings to this website.

First login to the admin dashboard using the information provided to you in a private email from the webmaster.

If you don’t already have an account and want one, please email the webmaster at jayht3@gmail.com.

To add an Announcement or Article (these dont have scheduled dates and times),

1.  Click the ‘Announcements’ Link in the left menu
2. Then select ‘Add new Announcement’ in the drop down
3. In the wordpress editing window, type in the Announcement title in the ‘Add Title’ Box
4. In the right hand menu, find the ‘Featured image’, upload and select your image.
5. In the right hand menu, add an ‘Excerpt’ (shorter description) of the Meeting.
6. Enter ‘Announcement Body’ at the bottom.  
7. Click update or publish to finish creating the Announcement. Click on the publish date, or ‘immediately’, and make the publish date the same date as the Webinar meeting time. 
8. If you can’t see the right hand menu, there is an icon in the upper right which toggles that, mouse over says ‘Settings’.
9. Check your work by pulling up the Announcement page in a different web browser, not logged in to the WP admin panel.
10. Optionally, you can try to clean up the line break formatting in the description area by using the Divi Editor and selecting ‘raw html’ in one of the settings windows, as in this video.

To add a Zoom Meeting, such as Green and Black Podcasts,

1. In the left hand menu, click on ‘G & B Webinars’ you want to add or edit
2. In the drop down menu, click on ‘Add new G & B Webinar’
3. Add your new Webinar title to the box which says ‘Add Title’
4. In the right hand menu, find the ‘Featured Image’, upload and select one.
5. In the right hand menu, enter an ‘Excerpt’  (shorter description) of the Webinar
6. Fill out the fields in the ‘G & B Webinars’  area.
7. Click the update or Publish button in the upper right corner to save and publish.  Click on the publish date, or ‘immediately’, and make the publish date the same date as the Webinar meeting time.
8. Check your work by pulling up the Announcement page in a different web browser, not logged in to the WP admin panel.
9. Optionally, you can try to clean up the line break formatting in the description area by using the Divi Editor and selecting ‘raw html’ in one of the settings windows, as in this video.

To edit and re-size an image in IRFANVIEW, 

1. Download and install this executable, run it and then open the image you want to edit.
2. Click, hold, and drag the mouse across the image to open the rectangular box around the part of the image you want to trim out and keep.  You can watch the pixel count in the upper left of the screen in order to get an exact size image when needed.    If you dont get the box you want the first time, just do it again, it will clear the first box when you start the second.
3. In the ‘Edit’ drop down menu, select ‘Cut area outside of selection’
4. In the ‘Edit’ drop down menu, select ‘Auto-Crop Borders’
5. In the ‘Image’ drop down menu, select ‘Resize/Resample’.  When the ‘Preserve Aspect Ratio’ is selected, Irfanview will automatically adjust the parameters in order to not stretch the image.  Use 72 DPI for images designed for being put on the web.
6. In the ‘File’ drop down menu, ‘Save As’ your file to a new filename.  I have a tendency to put the dimensions in the name, like ‘image_1_200x100.jpg’