MCMD Agendas and Notes
Creating Article Post
Intro
You will need 3 windows to be as efficient as possible
- THIS POST–Directions on how to make new post
- List of articles
- “New Post” creation window
SETUP
- Log in to word press as Staff`
- Open up 3 windows as above
- open up articles directory by opening:
\\ddm\h\d\_all_years\!_articles
(ddm is current server, might change) - The next series of steps will be repeated for each articleor next article:
Steps
- Open article-template in “Backend” view (new browser tab will open)
- Halfway down the page, under the “Themify Custom Panel” make sure the “Themify builder” tab is selected: themify_custom_panel
- Click on the duplicate icon to make a copy of the post with all of its settings
- It will ask “Save Before Duplicating…”, click YES, wait for it to make the copy save before duplicating
- At the top of the post, rename the title of the post, to match the exact title of the article
- Copy name of the new title, and paste it into the “Permalink” below the title (it will probably add a -2 to the end of the permalink since there is already a post with that name.
- On far right, click “Publish” button to save new Post; wait for the wheels in the center and far right to finish and refresh
- On left, side, click “Themify Builder” to go to “Frontend” which is easier to see/edit publish & frontend buttons
FRONTEND - Click on “text here” to open text module
- Go to existing article and grab text (Ctrl-C)
- Paste (Ctrl-V) into the text module
- Upper right, click orange SAVE button to save frontend save
- n the PDF in the directory list on DDM (will open in acrobat)
- At the top menu click file>export>image>jpg
- Click save
- Go back to articles directory, hit f5 to refresh the file list, you should see at least one jpg with the same title as the article
- If there is more than one jpeg, only keep page one and rename to exactly match the first name of the original article with the second name as jpeg.
- Image is too large. To shrink, R-click on jpg with Irfanview to open.
- Ctrl-R to resize image (or Image > Resize)
- Chose 15% , then OK
- Ctrl-S to overwrite original jpg (should go from 1000’s of KB to < 100)
- Log in to word press as Staff`
- Open an existing article post by clicking here
- Press the edit button
- Halfway down the page, under the “Themify Custom Panel” make sure the “themify builder” tab is selected

- click on the duplicate icon to make a copy of the post with all of its settings
- To find the copy, click on the dashboard (left), at the top All Posts. The copy should be at the top. Click edit.

- Rename the title of the post, to match the exact title of the article
- Copy name of the new title, and paste it into the “Permalink” below the title
- Go back to the “Themify Custom Panel” and chose the “post options” tab
- towards the bottom, you will see the “Lightbox Link” field filled in with the name of the copied article. Change only the article name within that field
- Open Media Library Folders . Wait for page to populate
- Click the “!_articles” directory, wait for it to populate
- Click on “Add File”
- Drag the PDF from the local directory into the “Drag and Drop” Boxor to let you know it is ready to move the file.
- When the “insert to post” button turns blue, it is done moving. We DO NOT want to insert into post, so hit the “x” in the upper right corner
- Click on Update on the right to save your work so far
- Scroll down to bottom of right column to the “featured image” panel. Click on “set featured image”, wait for it to populate
- Click the “!_articles” directory, wait for it to populate
- Drag the JPG from the local directory into the “featured image” window, it will change color to let you know it is ready to move the file.
- Then click on, set featured image at the bottom right side
- Update
- Re-open current list of articles already on website here.
- Check that the article is there. Also test lightbox.
- Back to step 1 for next article.
