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How to Edit Your Site

This document is intended to navigate you through the different features on your website, and how to edit or create each of them.

For ease of use, all sections (layouts) currently built on the site, and shown on the Page Blocks Library page, have been saved into the templates.

When editing or creating new pages, if your page or section is not looking as it should, go to the layout examples and reference the styles and formatting that we’ve used on the comparable widget.

Additional Resources

Custom Post Type How-To Documentation

Products

  • How to Add/Edit Products
    • In the left-hand WordPress dashboard go to Products > Add New.
    • Enter the title of the post in the “Add Title” field.
    • Enter all content into the content editor (WYSIWYG).
    • Yoast SEO — Set the SEO title and meta description in the “Yoast SEO” section.
    • Categories & Tags — Add categories and tags as needed in the right-hand sidebar.
      • See below for notes on creating and editing blog categories and tags.
    • Product Short Description — This text will appear at the top of the product, below the title and filters
    • Right Rail Sidebar — The first sections of downloadable items in the right rail side bar will load from the variations selected under “Product Data.” Any additional downloads/spec sheets should be added under “Product Additional Fields”
    • Set the featured image which will appear on the product category pages as a thumbnail for this post item.
    • Save and update the post.
  • Product FAQ Text Styling
    • To create the grey background on FAQ text on the product detail page, highlight the text, click the blockquote icon (“) then also select the FAQ the format drop down. Save and test.
  • Product Categories
    • Product category breadcrumbs will only work if the page SLUG (or permalink) is the same as the category SLUG
      • Category: /adulticides/
      • Page: /mosquito-products/adulticides/
    • Page blocks associated with product detail pages correspond to the category that the product is assigned to. To edit these blocks, identify the page under Pages > All Pages with the appropriate category. These will be labeled with “(used on category page)”
      • Note: These page blocks act globally for that category

Workshops

  • How to Add/Edit Workshops
    • In the left-hand WordPress dashboard go to Workshops > Add New.
    • Enter the title of the event in the “Add Title” field.
    • Enter any content into the wysiwyg.
    • In the “Workshops” section, update the various fields
    • In the right-hand sidebar, select any associated states in the “States” section.

Posts (Blog Posts)

  • How to Add/Edit Blog Posts
    • In the left-hand side WordPress dashboard go to Posts > Add New.
    • Enter the title of the post in the “Add Title” field.
    • Enter all content into the wysiwyg.
    • Enter excerpt content which will appear on the all posts page as a preview for this blog article.
    • Set the Meta Title and Meta Description in the Yoast SEO section.
    • Add categories and tags as needed in the right-hand sidebar.
    • Set the featured image which will appear on the all resources posts page as a thumbnail for this post item
    • Save/update the post.
  • How to Add/Edit Blog Categories
    • In the left-hand WordPress dashboard go to Posts > Categories. If you are trying to edit a category that is already existing, you can do that in the same location as well.
    • Edit/add category as you see fit. For a category to appear on the Resources landing page, you must first apply that category to a published resource.
  • How to Add/Edit Blog Tags
    • In the left-hand WordPress dashboard go to Posts > Tags. If you are trying to edit a tag that is already existing, you can do that in the same location as well.
    • Edit/add the tag as you see fit.

Media Library

  • How to Add/Edit Media Library
  • How to Add/Edit Categories
  • How to Add/Edit the Media Library Landing Page
    • In the left-hand WordPress dashboard go to Media Library > Resource Settings.
    • In here, you can update the title of the archive, any page intro copy, and any content copy that might appear on the page.
    • To edit the SEO information (meta titles and descriptions) for the resources landing page, go to SEO > Search appearance. Then go to the content types tab. Under “Resources,” you can edit this information

Updating Product Variations or Reps

  • To import new product variations or update reps, go to: All Import > Manage Imports
  • Choose ‘Settings’ underneath the ‘Products Update’ import to Import Product Variations, or ‘Find a Rep Importer’ to update Reps.
  • Choose ‘Upload a File’ and select the updated variations file.
    • This needs to be a CSV file type.
    • Do not change any setting.
  • Click ‘Run Import’ and wait for the import to complete.
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