Editing manual for Joshua

To add a new blog post

Click “Original blog post” in the “NOT LINKED” directory, then click + icon on top of the left column.

Categories and Tags -Only Tags are used in this site

• Categories must be 25 characters or fewer.

• Tags must be 80 characters or fewer.

• Categories and tags are case-sensitive. For example, entering Apples, apples, and APPLES creates three different categories or tags.

• You can add as many categories and tags per item as you'd like. 

Posts in Explore directory

• Each post in this directory should be tagged with the proper keywords:

  the tag list will appear when you start type in the Page setting window.

• Each post MUST be tagged “Explore” and categorized as “Explore”. Otherwise the post won’t appear in the Recent posts page and the Archives block won’t work.

• Every time you create a new post, you’d better to add a “summary block” right under the contents to show “Related posts.” Choose Carousel design. But…

• It should be much easier for you to duplicate an existing post with the same tag and edit it to create a new post, because there are quite a few works to complete the post in the same format. To duplicate a page, click “original blog post” then click the 3 dots by the page you want to duplicate. Choose duplicate from the drop-down menu.

• When you duplicate a page, you need to edit the page settings as well. You have to do the followings:

  Edit post settings

  After opening a post's settings, click the following tabs to edit corresponding post settings.

   Content

  • Status - Set the post's publication status to discard the original date of the post

  • Tags - should be remaining the same as the original

  • Categories - should be remaining the same as the original

  Options

  • Thumbnail Image - Change the thumbnail image

  • Post URL - Edit the post's URL slug Use the new page’s title as URL slug. Like: /articles/3d-latte-art. If you forget to do this, the URL will make a big confusion.

  • Excerpt - Edit  the excerpt to give readers a sense of the full post

  • Featured Post - Set it as a featured post if you need.

  SEO

  • SEO Title - Change the SEO title to help search engines

  • SEO Description - Change the SEO description to help search engines

  Social Image

  • Change the Alternate Social Sharing Image to display when the post is shared on social media

Please be sure you are editing a single blog post!

Do NOT edit the global blog settings.

Activities front page

Each post must be tagged “Activities.” There’s no need to be categorized, because Activities section has no sub-index so far.

Add the “Related posts” block right under the article.

Image files

All image files I made for this site will be stored in “image storage” page. This manual and Image storage are hidden from visitors and Google search.

Image resolution: Width 1200 x Height 630 pixels, 72 dpi, aspect ratio 3:2

To reuse an image:

1. In the Image Search window, click Imported.

2. Hover over the image you want to use and click Add. You may need to scroll to see all images. For premium Getty Images, you’ll only see the images you’ve licensed.

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542377-Reusing-images

To find high quality, royalty free images:

This website provides much better photos with fine quality

https://unsplash.com/

To create a link to an external web page:

Make sure the “Open in New Window” command is active, when you insert a link to a button and inline text. Otherwise, visitors will leave your website and won’t come back unless they dare to click the back button on their own browsers.

When you place a link to an internal page, there’s no need to do this, of course.