Welcome to this site’s documentation.
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This site’s documentation is split into three parts.
- Updating Content
There are many ways of adding content to the site. I would recommend limiting your methods to adding posts and pages.
- Site Maintenance
For more information on general WordPress site administration tools and techniques, consult the WordPress documentation on Administration Panels.
- PHP Editing
This is a placeholder page. I may eventually give details on how to actually edit the PHP code that builds the site from the database every time hoorwa.org is requested by a browser. This is an advanced topic and there is really no limit to the amount of information I could put on here.
Most of you only need those few pages. However, if you are curious about more features that WordPress has to offer, I would direct you to: The WordPress Codex – This page is extremely extensive and contains far more information than you would ever want to know.
The most important upgrade (other than the aesthetic boost) that I have given you is a Content Management System called WordPress. A CMS is anything that structures the way you add content to a site and, in the process, makes it considerably easier and more intuitive to do.
In WordPress, there are two ways to add content to your site, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
This section simply describes all the necessary details for adding standard content to the page. It covers how to:
- Add a page
- Make a post
- Add “special” content (Event/Newsletter)
- Manipulate media
- Share documents/media with other staff
This section is a detailed description of how to execute more uncommon tasks. It covers how to:
- Add a user
- Manage comments
In order to drastically restructure the way the site and Hoorwa theme works, you will need someone with some PHP knowledge. I don’t think it would be useful or within the scope of the project to provide documentation to do this. However, this is where it would go should it exist.
