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Posts are more ‘newsy’ than pages. They are event-driven and should be used for content that is new and relevant for a short period of time, such as announcements, news or events.
By default, there is a News page on your site. This is a list of all the posts posted on your site. It has a sidebar that lists all of the categories and a drop down with a chronological archive.
This News page can be added to the main navigation for easy access.
To view existing pages, select Posts → ‘All Posts’. Posts are listed in reverse date order, with most recent at the top.
The process of adding a post is very similar to adding a page, with the exception of adding a parent page or editing the permalink. Refer to “Adding a Page” section of the manual. To begin go to Posts → ‘Add New’.
Note: This video is from a third-party services and may not completely reflect the type of content and/or functionality of Tufts University’s JumboPress.
There are two more additional steps for adding a post:
A post must have a category such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’.
Note: This video is from a third-party services and may not completely reflect the type of content and/or functionality of Tufts University’s JumboPress.
JumboPress comes with two preloaded categories: ‘Home Slider’ and ‘News’. If you have a post slider on your homepage to add a post to it give it the ‘Home Slider’ category. If you’d like the post to appear on your News page give the post the category ‘News’. By default, if a post does not have a category WordPress will assign it the category of ‘Uncategorized’.
To add a category while creating/editing a post:
To add to the list of categories:
In this screen you can also view all of your categories and edit or delete them.
Each post requires a Featured Image. This image will appear whenever a posts shows with a thumbnail or when the post is assigned to the ‘Home Slider’, i.e. the homepage slider.
Note: This video is from a third-party services and may not completely reflect the type of content and/or functionality of Tufts University’s JumboPress.
To add a featured image: