Please go to http://naimabrobert.co.uk/wp-admin
I advise you to add this URL to your favorites because you will have to go there each time you want to update your website. This page will immediately ask you your login and password.
Clicking on the Log In buton will give you access to the Dashboard :
You’ll have to use only a small part of the menus and options you see here. Before continuing, a few words about how the content is structured. All contents of the website are divided into 4 categories :
Articles
News
Publications
Featured Publications
But all pieces of content are actually “posts” belonging to different categories. So from WordPress’s perspective, an article is simply a post whose category is “Article”, a News is a post whose category is “News”, etc. Therefore, every time you add a new publication, news or whatever, you will always create a new post and then assign it to the right category. If it’s a new publication, you’ll assign it to the Publications category.
Now about where new contents go.
When you publish a new article, it will appear before all other articles in the Articles page, and it will also appear on the front page, because the front page shows the last articles, news and publications :
If you publish a news, it will also appear both on the News page and on the front page. Same with a publication. The fourth category “featured publications” is a special case, it simply tells WordPress that this particular publication will appear in big on the front page (see the Sisters image above).
So if you want your publication to appear small on the front page (like Boy vs Girl and Far from Home above), choose the “publications category”. And if you want it to appear big (like Sisters above) then choose “featured publications”. The only difference between the “Publications” category and the “Featured Publication” category is how the front page presents it. Otherwise, the Publication page makes no difference between those two categories.
You can access the editor either by clicking on the New Post button on the top right of the screen (just left to “Howdy, 84naima29”) or by clicking on “Add New” in the “Posts” box to the left of the screen, in the left sidebar.
This gives you access to the editor for publishing new content :
You have to specify a title and of course to write some content (use the HTML version of the editor instead of the Visual one which gives problems sometimes)
You must also choose a category depending on what your content is (an article, a news, etc).
In the Discussion box at the bottom of the screen, you can choose whether you want to allow comments or not.
Finally, you have to choose an image for your new piece of content. To do that, head to the Featured Image box and click on “Set featured image” :
Then click on Select Files and choose an image from your computer :
Be careful, the smallest acceptable dimensions for an image is 350 x 470 for a publication, 300 x 150 for an article and 110 x 110 for a news. There is no upper limit, and even if you upload a giant image it won’t affect performance because WordPress will automatically reduce its size for its needs anyway. It will also crop it in a centered manner to fit the layout. So just pick an image big enough, it doesn’t matter if it’s way too big.
High contrast images are often the best choice, you can find good quality pictures on www.deviantart.com or www.flickr.com
Once the image is uploaded, just click on “Use as a fatured image” at the bottom of the screen.
Then, close this “Set featured image” box by clicking on the small cross at the top right. Finally choose a category in the Categories box on the right :
Now you can publish your content by clicking on the blue button “Publish”.
If it’s a news, you’ll see it immediately on the front page AND in the news page. If it’s an article, it will appear on the front page and the articles page. Same with a publication: both on the front page and the publications page.
You can see all your posts in the Posts page :
To modify the content of a post (its title, text content or featured image) just click on it, make whatever change you want and click on Update, that’s it ! If you want to change the featured image of the post, just click on "remove featured image" in the Featured image box to the bottom right, then click on "Set featured image" to pick another one.
Comments require your manual approval, otherwise spam will invade your website. The comments management page can be accessed through the “Comments” button in the left sidebar. When you arrive to the dashboard, you can immediately see if you have new comments awaiting approval as there is a number to the right of this button :
Once inside the comments page, you can delete or approve each comment or all comments at once.
If someday you want to change your About page you can. Just click on Pages :
Then click on “About Na’ima” and make your change, then click on Update.
There are 3 pages for newsletter operations in the admin dashboard left sidebar : one called « Newsletter subscribers » in the « Users » box, one called « Send newsletter » in the « Tools » box, and finally one called « Newsletter » in the « Settings » box.
The first one (Newsletter subscribers) enables you to easily manage the people who subscribed to your newsletter. The second one is for actually creating the newsletter. And the third one is for managing how the newsletter is sent.
WRITING A NEWSLETTER
To write a newsletter, click on « Send newletter » in the « Tools » box (left sidebar in the Dashboard) :
In the « Recipients » section, you can choose who will receive the newsletter. It can be everybody registered, and/or specific Email addresses. Then in the « Subject and text of the e-mail » section, you must choose a Subject (that's the subject your users will see when they receive the Email containing your newsletter). Finally, write your newsletter in the « Main body » section.
When you're done, send your newsletter by clicking once on the « Add to sending queue » button.
MANAGING SUBSCRIBERS
You can see your subscribers by clicking on « Newsletter subscribers » in the « Users » box :
You can activate or deactivate any of them, or even delete some of them.
OPTIONS
Somes options are available in the « Settings » box through the « Newsletter » button :
Here you can disable the activation e-mail for example, or change the address of the sender.
You can add PDF documents clicking on the “Add Media” icon right above the text editor of the Post admin page. After you have selected your files, make sure to click on the “File URL” button to get an URL ending with .PDF. Then click on the “Insert into Post” button, and there you have your link to your PDF file.
This video recapitulates the process : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMsZq4GS8Q&feature=related