Editing With WordPress
Finding your page or post
- Log In
- Locate the left menu bar on your WordPress dashboard
- Find your post by category on the left hand menu, indicated by a push pin icon
- Find your page by clicking on “Pages” on the left hand menu
- Search through the results by page title. You may need to use the “Search Pages” field above the search results.
Editing a page or post
- Choose your editor – Block Editor, Classic Editor, or Beaver Builder
- Block: This is a drag and drop style editor where you pre-select your elements, drop them onto the editing space, and then customize each block.
- Classic: This is a text/html based editor that has options for inserting media
- Beaver Builder: Similar to the Block editor, this is also a drag and drop style editor, with more options for layout and element customizations
- Edit Elements (by WordPress Editor)
- Block
- Edit the content by clicking on the the elements.
- Add new elements by selecting the “+” button on the upper left of the page, and find elements by scrolling down the tray.
- Classic
- Edit the content using the Visual tab, on the top right of the text box as you would in a word document OR
- Edit the content using the Code tab. This is best for editors who are comfortable using html mark down to edit. Please do not use this for custom text styling other than spacing.
- Beaver Builder
- Add new elements by selecting the blue “+” button on the upper right of the page, and find elements by scrolling down the tray.
- Edit elements either by double-clicking them or select the element in the “Outline” menu, next to the “+” button in the upper right.
- Block
Adding Library Terms
Once you have decided where to install the pop-up for term, you can add the code snippet to your page.
- Find the example pop-up and code snippet for the pop-up you would like to install on the Library Terms: HTML Code page.
- Click the copy text button under the code snippet.
- Edit the page (or in LibGuides, the box or content item) where you would like to install the pop-up.
- Find the instance of the term where you would like to install the pop-up.
- Switch to editing the page in html
- In the block editor, expand the menu using the three vertical dots, and select Edit as HTML
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- In the classic editor, select the text tab from above the main editing panel on the right.
- In the editor, highlight the term only and paste over it with the code snippet you copied in a previous step.
- Save the page.