Welcome to the new Pack 151 Site. If you can see this, you are able to add content to the site. This post will walk you through how to do this.
First, you need to go behind the scenes. Click on the “Dashboard” button at the top of this screen to enter the Admin area of the site.
You are now looking at the dashboard. This allows you to add and manage content on this site. This bar that I’ve reproduced here is your main toolbar for adding content to the site.
The first link of interest is Invite friends. This allows you to invite more people to the site. You may also see an “Invite a Friend” button right above your profile picture on the right-hand side of the site. Both of these do the same thing.
Next are Posts. What you are reading right now is a Post. These posts show up in the “News” part of the site. When you click on the Posts link here in the admin menu, you will be taken to a listing of all the Posts. Take a look at this Post from behind the looking glass to see what is going on. Clicking on the Add New will let you add a new post.
On the Post Edit Screen there is lots of stuff. The important things are:
- the empty title box across the top of the page,
- the big empty text area that needs to be filled in, and
- the blue “Publish” button on the right side of the screen.
Type something into the title box and the text area, and click “Publish” and it is there for all the world to see. You can always go back and edit it later.
If you want to keep this post private so only some people can see it, you can check some of the boxes in the “Content Permissions” section at the bottom of the page. Checking the “Member” box allows only people who are logged in to see this post. This particular post only allows people rated “Author” and higher to see it.
Further down are FAQs. These are slightly different, but they behave a lot like Posts, but they show up on the single “FAQs” page. All FAQs are public.
Down further are the Events. These are very special items. The way the events are configured, only the dates, description and location are public. All other information will only be shown to logged in users, including the registration form.
In the Events, I have added some categories to help organize/filter the events. I still need to add categories for the Posts and FAQs.