Website Help

Step-by-Step for Homily Posts

• Go to Sermons > Add New
• Choose Audio > Upload the Homily
  • Typically rename the file as [Name]_homily_[Date].mp3. For example, George_homily_08.29.2021.mp3
• Custom Sidebar should be set to “Homilies sidebar.”
• In Sermon settings on right-hand side, select the following:
  • Series = Homilies
  • Speakers = Name of the speaker
  • Featured Image = Profile picture of the speaker
  • Excerpt = This is the description that will show up on the preview and on the podcast episode.
• Nothing else needs to be checked. The podcast checkbox does not need to be selected.

Other notes

• Typically, nothing is added to the main content except the post/homily title.
  • Tom has been sending out on Saturday a reminder to the homilist to provide a title and excerpt. If the homilist does not provide a title for their homilies, you can do that.
• If the homily is posted during the week, set the “Publish” date to the Sunday on which the homily was delivered.
• The podcast will automatically update. No additional action is needed to publish the podcast episode.
• If the homily is not showing up on the main page, it’s probably because the “Series > Homilies” checkbox hasn’t been selected.
• There is trigger set up in IFTTT that emails to pleasepost@… when the homily is added to the Dropbox account.

1. Get the URL for the video from Fill Bowen or from the St. Paul’s Facebook link at the bottom of the home page. (A typical URL might be https://www.facebook.com/109373515817398/videos/127771496008115 from Fill or a shorter version from Facebook. Both should work.)
2. In WordPress, visit the St. Paul’s home page and find the post on Fr. George’s Weekly Video. (https://www.stpaulscary.org/church-business/fr-georges-weekly-video/)
3. Edit the post. Update the post with the new link and new date and update the post date. Stick it to the top of the blog and update.

Step-by-Step for Hope for the Journey Posts

1. Use title provided by person sending post, not “Hope for the Journey”
2. Copy and paste post
3. Click “Stick to the top of the blog”
4. Mark “Church Business” and “Hope for the Journey” categories
   1. “Church Business” ensures it goes up on St. Paul’s Connects page
5. Tag “From the Clergy” and “Hope for the Journey”

6. Begin excerpt with “In this week’s <b>Hope for the Journey</b>, Father/Mother XXXXX reflects on…”
   1. Point out the topic or add a line that stood out or use the first sentence or two.
7. Sign off “—Father George”, “—Father Javier”, or “—Mother Alice” and increase font size on this block to “Medium”
   1. We decided to use titles for the benefit of the occasional visitor
   2. George and Javier have signature blocks available in Media Library (Javier_sig; GeorgeSig) that we sometimes use to personalize the posts a bit (see below)

• Place curser in text at the location to insert inline graphic.

• From the block editor select inline image.

• Select or upload the image to insert.

• After the image is inserted you can click on the image to resize the width.

Posting MailChimp Newsletters

Currently several newsletter use MailChimp. For example, Children’s Ministry, Weekly Letter from the Rector, and Stewardship 2023.

We have 2 approaches for posting the newsletters:

1. Open the Newsletter in a New Tab – Create a post like you normal do that contains the link to the newsletter. Be sure to have the link open in a new tab.
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2. Embed the Newsletter in the Post – To embed the newsletter in a post requires a like more work but the users does not need to open additional browser tabs.
   • Create an Excerpt and pick Categories like you would for a normal post. I do not use a Feature Image, because the image shows up above the newsletter.
   • To embed the newsletter switch the editor view from Visual to Text.
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   • Post the following into the editor:
     • <iframe title=” Add Title ” src=” Newsletter Url before? ?e=[UNIQID]” width=”600″ height=”1200″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> </iframe>
       • Add Title – In the above text replace Add Title with the newsletter title.
       • Newsletter Url before? – In the above text replace Newsletter Url before? with a copy and paste of the url before the ?.
   • You can now publish the post.
   • Notes. You can adjust the iframe width and height to get the newsletter to look good in the posting. The MailChimp template is 600 pixel wide, so I start with a width=600.

How to modify the url’s for the 3 buttons on the Homepage slider.

The buttons are on the individual slides that are in that slider.  Because the buttons don’t change from slide-to-slide, it appears as if they are an overlay on the whole slide show, but they are not.  Therefore, you’ll need to update all the slides that have that button individually.

Here is a video Tad put together to show how to modify the url:

To change right side menu – go to widgets under appearance

• Pages – Ministry Pages
  • The ministry pages are for the basic information about what the ministry does and contact information. 
  • We do not expect to have to change the ministry pages very often.
  • Ministry leaders should review their pages periodically.
• Posts – News Items
  • Perishable time limited information, such as awarding of grants, is temporary and we use posts for that kind of news