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Create New Post

In the left navigation click on Post > Add New
or go to http://www.23HAM.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
Fill out Title and Body
Select Categories:
- Blog
- “Your Name“
Add Tags related to your post (ie photo, travel, inspiration…etc).
This will help your post come up in searches.

Add a Thumbnail

Thumbnails provide a visual preview to your post topic and content when viewed as an excerpt, in the blogroll or in a search result. Thumbnail images DO NOT automatically appear in your full post entry. To have the same image as your thumbnail and IN YOUR FULL ENTRY, you must embed it in both places. ALL THUMBNAIL IMAGES MUST ALREADY BE UPLOADED TO THE MEDIA LIBRARY (see instructions below).
To see an example of a post with and without a thumbnail: CLICK HERE

Make sure your desired image is already uploaded to the Media Library and locate its URL on 23HAM.
ie. http://www.23ham.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/img_0143-300×224.jpg
In custom fields, underneath your blog entry, select “Image” from drop-down menu.
Copy portion the url following “www.23HAM.com/”
Enter that portion of the url as the “Value” of “Image” in custom fields.
Must be of the format:
wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/imagetitle.jpg
wp-content/uploads/2009/02/img_0143-300×224.jpg
Click “Add Custom Field”

Add an Excerpt

Create an Excerpt that either mimics or summarizes your post entry. Excerpts are important for different reasons. If you don’t input one yourself, WordPress will automatically generate one when needed. This will be the first 300 (?) words of your post and NO images or video embeds. If you want images or video to appear, you must manually enter them in the excerpt field. The easiest way is to copy and paste from the HTML tab of your content. Excerpts can also be completely different than your post.

Add Media

Before adding media to your post, the media file must already be uploaded to the 23HAM Media Library or exist somewhere on the internet.

ALL MEDIA MUST HAVE A MAXIMUM PUBLISHED WIDTH OF 475 PIXELS. Original files are be wider than 475, but all images and video must be resized in the html to be ≤475.

Adding Images to a Post

Open the post you want to add an image to.

Click the first icon after Upload/Insert : Add an image. This button is located directly above the body content edit field.

Select the file location

From computer : to upload a new image to the media library on 23HAM

From URL : if the image already exists online, hosted somwhere else

From Media Library : if the image has previously been uploaded to 23HAM

Name, size and position the image correctly (this can be modified later)

At the bottom of the image uploader, click “Insert to Post”

To modify (size, postion, etc) a previously inserted image. Click on the image in the post content edit field. Two icons will appear on the top. One to edit/modify, one to delete.
In the edit/modify pop up window, click on “advanced settings” for more options (exact pixel dimensions, margins, etc)

Adding Video to a Post

Host your video on another site. Vimeo is preferred.

In vimeo, copy the embed code from your video.

Paste embed code in the “HTML” edit tab of your content.

You can also embed a video clip into an Excerpt. Use html.
See Alex’s posts for an example of EMBEDDED VIDEO EXCERPT

Add Highlights

Highlights are fantastic ways of linking to related content, whether internally on 23HAM.com or externally anywhere on the internet. Highlights allow the post author to direct the reader to relevant files and sites that pertain to topics they may have discussed or references in their post.
For an example of all possible highlight, SEE TOP RIGHT OF THIS PAGE.
For an example of a post with internally linked highlights: CLICK HERE

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Value: “post_slug” which is found after the post date at the end of the url of the relevant post “www.23HAM.com/section/year/month/day/post_slug” of relevant post
ex. “post-on-classes-workshops”
Related Page on 23HAM
Select: featured_content_page_slug
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ex. “blog/alex”
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Select: featured_content_download
Value: “<a href="http://url_where_file_is_uploaded.extention" target="_blank">Title_of_Linked_File</a> This is the description of a link to a referenced PDF, check it out. You can link pdfs, docs, imgs, whatever.”

ex. “<a href="http://captology.stanford.edu/pdf/p61-fogg.pdf" target="_blank">What Makes Websites Credible</a> This is a link to a to the referenced PDF, check it out.”
Related Web Links
Select: featured_content_link
Value: “<a href="http://www.url.com" target="_blank">Title_of_Website_Link</a> This is the description of the website and why you wanted to link to it.”

ex. “<a href="http://www.jimwarren.com/site/" target="_blank">Artist Site</a> This is my favorite artist’s website, check it out.”
Related Media Web Links
Select: featured_content_media
Value: “<a href="http://url_where_the_media_is.com" target="_blank">Title_of_Linked_Media</a>” This is the description of the media website and why you wanted to link to it.”ex “<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrbranco/sets/72157601583504228/" target="_blank">Trees</a> This is a link to a great flickr album, check it out.”