New Markdown format for editors

Examples of markdown syntax for library. Headings and sub-headings H2 ## H3 ### H4 #### Paragraphs For ordinary paragraphs. just leave a blank line between text For a hard line break, that is, forcing a new line, just put a backslash followed by a new line. Example:...

Translate strings (e.g ‘Read more’) into your language

The procedure differs depending on whether you have just one language or a multilingual site. One language Go to Settings > General and switch the language to your language. Obtain the string translation file (we sent username/pwd in a sites list message, but you...

Translating Radio and TV into a foreign language

For Radio and TV, we have Excel files containing some of the post popular pages on the site – you can translate many pages at once just by translating this file, and then send back to us to import it.The file has 4 columns – ID (dont change this), full...

Changing mail password in Apple mail

In your list of email accounts on the left hand site, right-click and select ‘Edit account’.    You will be taken to this screen where you can change your password

Changing the Contact Form

On this page: Viewing and downloading entries – How to set email notification – Editing the form We also have a seperate page on making the contact form consistent with data protection laws Important: When you begin to use the site, and after making a...

How to edit the top menu

There is a very detailed and up to date guide here. The below is more of a quick guide. Quick steps To edit navigation menu at top of site: Select Appearance » Menus from left sidebar. You can add pages by clicking on Pages and selecting the pages that you want to...

How to add footnotes to a page

Now footnotes can be easily added to a page. Adding footnotes allows you back up your writings with factual references to media, Sri Chinmoy’s writings etc. and write more authoritative pages. Example on centre site: Religious Tolerance How To Add Footnotes Go...

Viewing/Changing Stored Passwords on your browser

Many people store their password in their browser so they dont have to type it in. if you have done this and then later on forgotten your password, you can obtain the stored password from your browser using the instructions below. Also – if your password is...

Deleting Cookies

Deleting Cookies for Mozilla Firefox Deleting Cookies for Internet Explorer Deleting cookies for Safari

Using Address Book

  Creating an Address book. (see also: recovering address book) 1. Click on Folder to left of your Name. then click on ‘create folder’ 2. Create Folder Called ‘Contacts’ You will now have a folder which is your address book.   Check...

Changing sidebars and footers

Sidebars and footers are called ‘widget areas’ –  editable areas that are not part of the main page content. For the default Dhyana theme, there is only one area – in the footer For most of our other themes, there is a sidebar area and 4 footer...

Changing the design of your site

This page describes: 1. how to change themes 2. other design tweaks you can do 3. what to do if you want a completely new design. Changing Themes You site has a number of existing themes (site designs) you can choose from. The theme can be changed from the Dashboard...

The Page Builder – a detailed guide

Video: Introduction to page builder on our meditation sites. It was done a couple of years ago, so some things look a little different now, but it is still pretty good Note: This is for our themes that are based on the Divi theme builder (Inspire, Discover, Tokyo,...

How to add maps to pages

For events like concerts and sporting events it can be useful to add an interactive map to let people know where the venue is. Configuring your maps We use the maps from Open Street Map. To begin, you should open http://www.openstreetmap.org/ in a new tab. (Note that...

Embedding audio files

These instructions should apply to any audio file that is accessible over the web, but as most of the audio you will want to embed is available on Radio Sri Chinmoy, we are going to use that site as the example. The general steps are as follows: Get the URL or embed...

Adding dates for a race series

If your event page has more than 1 race, you can list the races, so they all appear on the same home page. This is useful if you have a series of races. You only need one main page, rather than many seperate events. Example Oxford How to add / change dates login /...

Changing mail password in Windows Mail

1.Click the Tools menu, and then click Accounts on Windows Mail.    2.Click the account you want to change the password for, and then click Properties.      3.Click the Servers tab, type your new password in the Password box, and then click...

Changing mail password in Outlook 2010

First, hit the Office button(or File) and click the Account Settings button. It will display the Account Settings window with Email tab open, if you have configured multiple accounts then all of them will be listed here. You will see the tabbed interface here, by...

Changing mail password in Outlook Express

1. Start Outlook Express: You can probably find Outlook Express this way: – Click the Windows Start button at the bottom left of your screen – Click Programs – Click Outlook Express. However, your computer may be configured differently. 2. On the...
Embedding videos on your meditation site

Embedding videos on your meditation site

The general steps are as follows: Get the Vimeo or Youtube URL of the video you want to upload. If you want to embed a video from Sri Chinmoy TV, you can get the Vimeo URL from the ‘Embed’ link. Here are some videos that might be suitable for your site » ...

Lay out content using tables

Traditionally, our editors have laid out a lot of content using tables, because they are quite easy to use. However, the result is not SEO-friendly, and also does not look good on mobiles and tablets. Our solution is to allow tables in the text editor, but then...

Creating member stories and videos

Stories and videos by members are a very important part of the Centre site, and now they exist as their own content type. This allows us to make them available to users in many different locations. Stories are very much like pages, and co-exist in the book structure....

Create and show news items

Why add news items? Adding 5 or 6 news items a year gives the user a feeling of a dynamic centre. However, if you do want to have a news section, then be sure to add news items every so often. A site that has not had news items added for many years looks stale and out...

List books available in your country

You can add a list of books that people might be interested in buying. These will end up on the /books page, and also can be added to the front page (or other pages) using a shortcode listing How to add a book There is a ‘create books’ link on the top grey...

Other shortcodes: city search, page sections, whitespace

City listings [city label=”Find a class in your city” select=”search” worldwide=”true”] select can be either options (choose from a list of cities in country site) or search (better for global searches). Defaults to search. label...

Show latest content from our other sites

You can display latest items from Races, Radio or TV sites Radio and TV Sri Chinmoy Races With Races, you can display upcoming events and latest results, from a country site or from all sites Options url – this depends on the type of content you want to show For...

Add map displays

Displays a full width map, with pins containing popup links to different pages (meditation class pages by default). By default a global map is displayed. (Note: the map view should not be confused with the worldmap display of stories/videos – more information on...

Full width image displays

On important pages like the front page, people often will not read a lot of text, and sometimes a picture plus a succinct title and description will get the message across much more effectively. The images stretch the full width of the screen and can take a long time...

Adding listings of members to the Centre sites

You can embed listings of members. The listings include a short member bio plus links to stories, audio, video and gallery. They can be added using shortcodes, which is basically some text inside square brackets which specify what kind of thing should be added. For...

Adding listings of news, stories, videos

On this page: Basic format • Options • Using listings, you can display: Display latest news items for your country, or worldwide Stories and videos by members, either from your country or worldwide. Listings of news, stories, videos are added using shortcodes, which...

Having your website in multiple languages

You can have your website in as many languages as you like. Even if you have only one language, and it is not English, you should set your default language in Settings > General. This will put the admin interface in your language, translates some bits of text on...

Ideas for articles for the Races site

As well as results and events, we are also looking for articles for the races site to give visitors to our sites a better experience. Types of articles to write: a) Expand your race reports – include at least a paragraph or two! The result pages look very bare...

Embedding videos

The general steps are as follows: Get the embed URL for the video Paste the URL into the page we want to put the video on, and maybe modify it a little 1. Getting the embed code For Vimeo/youtube – the url of the video page is enough. Or you can copy the URL...