WNDR WordPress: "How-To" Wiki Guides

Welcome to the WNDR WordPress Wiki!

Hey everyone!

I put together this wiki to help you use the WordPress admin panel. I'll organize everything into focused "how to do this 1 specific thing" items in the left sidebar menu. And you can also use the search bar in the top right to just quickly try & find whatever you're looking for. Intro video above, and I'll also add a quick text summary below of the 2 Global Concepts I mentioned in the video. - Danny McCarthy

Global Concepts:

1. The Custom WNDR Menu & Submenu Items

• Lots of complicated stuff in the WP Admin Panel. But if you just ignore 99% of it and pretend that the custom "WNDR" menu item in the top left is the only thing there, it should be pretty easy to find whatever content you're trying to edit.

• Hover or click into that WNDR menu in the top left, and you'll see all the individual custom WNDR settings options and content/data types.

— Just be careful in WP Admin Panel — The WP Dashboard basically manages all functionality for the entire site + CMS. There are some pretty complex things in here that you'll have access to, and a ton of critical configs that can break the entire site if accidentally changed. Majority of things inside that custom WNDR menu + submenus are just content data fields, so pretty safe to change any copy/language or images anywhere. But there are some critical configs in there, and outside the WNDR menu there are TONS of potentially destructive settings. So if you're not sure what a particular field does, better to ask about it rather than click + save + see what happens :)

2. Media Files

• The "Media" menu item in the left sidebar is where ALL your uploaded media goes. You can upload images specifically to different content types (Events, Exhibits, Locations, Blog Posts, etc), but they all end up going to this single global Media Manager.

• IMAGE COMPRESSION!

  • Super important to make sure you compress all image files before you upload. It'll speed up user page loads, and will help prevent unnecessarily high bandwidth costs from the server/cloud bill.

  • My rule of thumb for image sizes:

    • Aim for under 100kb

    • Try to never let one exceed 250kb (unless absolutely necessary to have it still look good).