Category: How Tos Editing
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Embedding
Embedding Videos, Google Calendar and PDFs Embedding is a mechanism to show external content on a website without the reader’s browser leaving your site or being sent to a new browser tab/window. Below are slides used in a Drop-in session on embedding. There is more on YouTube embedding in this article (opens in a new… Read more
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u3a Contact form – how it works
This article explains how the contact form works at a broad level. The User Guide has full details. Contact forms are a mechanism for a visitor to send an email while not revealing the email address of the recipient. They also have fields to capture specific information. Invoking the Contact form A site visitor wishing… Read more
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About Shortcodes and Blocks
Shortcodes go back to the early days of WordPress. Editing content has become more WYSIWYG ‘what you see is what you get’ over time. The introduction of blocks and their attributes (those settings down the right hand of the screen) have made Shortcodes relatively niche, at least in the SiteWorks context. How a Page (or… Read more
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Calendar of u3a Events
Describes how to use the SiteWorks iCalendar feed to display a calendar on your site using a 3rd party plugin. Read more
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Bulk delete u3a Events
Bulk delete u3a Events SiteWorks can now generate a series of u3a Events based on an existing u3a Event. On the Dashboard select u3a Events > All Events and hover over the event you want to repeat.Click on Repeat Event and a form to create repeating future event appears. Of course this powerful feature can… Read more
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Groups etc. information form disappears
Group, Event etc. information form disappears When creating or editing any of the u3a posts (Groups, Events, Venues, Contacts, Notices) there is an information form at the bottom to enter and edit the content. This form can seem to disappear of move between columns. This article shows how to control it. The information form is… Read more
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Show a YouTube (or other) video on your site
Show a YouTube (or other hoted) video on your site SiteWorks does not support uploading videos (ref. Web Manager > Operating Procedures) but it is easy to have a video on, typically, YouTube and display that on part of your screen. Firstly locate the URL link to your video. For YouTube this needs to be… Read more
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Media Library – replacing items beware
Media Library – replacing items beware You may have found that deleting an image or other item in the Media Library before uploading a replacement with the same name is an effective way to update the image (or PDF etc.). This only works if the item being deleted was originally added in the same calendar… Read more
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About image file formats
Image file formats and when to use PNG There are various file image formats out there. The most common on the web are JPEGs (extension .jpg or jpeg) and these also come out of most of our cameras and many smartphones (iPhone HEIC format is discussed later). A key attribute is that JPEG supports varying… Read more
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Marquee Banner (rotating text)
Create a Marquee Banner (rotating text) A Marquee is text that rotates. “STOP PRESS: THEATRE OUTING: Life with SiteWorks. Anytown Civic Hall, Sunday 29th June, 7.30pm. Cost of ticket, maximum £27, depending on numbers, Reservations and further information. ann.other@somewhere.com” They are less popular on Websites than they once were but you can create one by… Read more