1. Posts – are one of the two main types of content within a WordPress site (the other is Pages). Posts, better known as blog posts or news posts, are typically organized chronologically.
   
   Learn much more about the difference between posts and pages here:
   What is the Difference Between Posts vs. Pages in WordPress
   (https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-the-difference-between-posts-vs-pages-in-wordpress/)
2. Events – where you go to add or edit events in your Events Calendar.
3. Media – is the library of images, PDF’s, and other media files that have been uploaded to WordPress. Note: a special plugin has been added to organize your media library into folders… see below video for more info on that.
4. Pages – are the webpages that you see in the main navigation sections of the site, such as “About” and “Contact Us.” They are organized hierarchically in a tree structure.
5. Testimonials – where you go to add or edit your customers’ testimonials on your Testimonials page.
6. Custom Post Type – a “custom post type” for managing the Before & After photos published on your website.
   NOTE for Wade: This has not been built yet, as of March 7, 2023. When it is, more info on this part of your website will appear here.
7. Appearance – where you go to access the footer widgets and navigation menus on your WordPress website.
8. Profile – where you access your user profile in the WordPress Dashboard.
9. YOAST SEO – where you go to access your SEO tools using the Yoast SEO Plugin. This also may appear as an icon in the header bar in the WordPress admin area.
10. Insights – where you go to access an overview of your Google Analytics statistics, to view your website’s traffic.
11. MetaSlider – where you go to add or edit image slideshows.
12. [Collapse menu] – will give you a smaller menu to deal with, using only icons.
    
    *NOTE: your version of the WordPress CMS is completely responsive, so you can access any of the above functions in any browser on any size device!

The above items should be available by themselves if you’re logged in as an Editor, to minimize the amount of stuff you have to deal with. If you’re logged in as an Administrator, you will have access to everything, including the following items:

• Ninja Forms – where you go to access and make changes to the contact forms on your website.

1. Beaver Builder – Your website has a PREMIUM 3rd-party drag-and-drop editor plugin called Beaver Builder, for editing your static pages like About. The premium version is installed for many GYW clients for free (value $99/year). My clients have usually found this to be the easiest way to add and edit content, and a number of enhancements have been made to the Beaver Builder functioning on your site. To use Beaver Builder, go to Pages > All Pages, and hover over the page you want to edit. Select “Beaver Builder.”
   
   Check out the following video for an introduction on editing content using Beaver Builder (other videos below will show using Beaver Builder in more detail). The video starts here at 17:50 to skip to the parts you may find most useful:

   See many more videos on Beaver Builder on their YouTube page!

2. Classic Editor – Some WordPress users prefer to stay with the Classic Editor. To use the Classic Editor, go to Pages > All Pages, hover over the page you want to edit, and select “Edit.” Then select the “Text Editor” tab. You’ll want to take great care when switching between Beaver Builder and the Classic Editor, as preformatted pages can break when doing this!

   To see my older guide on Adding/Editing Page and Post content using the Classic Editor, visit:
   WordPress Classic Editor Guide
   (https://growyourworldweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wordpress-Classic-Guide.pdf)

3. Gutenberg – If you follow WordPress, you may have heard about something called “Gutenberg.” As of WordPress version 5.0, the CMS has incorporated its own native, drag-and-drop block editor. This has been disabled in your case, as Beaver Builder serves the same purpose. In my clients’ experience, the Gutenberg editor is promising, but it is “not quite there yet” in terms of ease-of-use.
   
   If you’re interested in giving Gutenberg a try, let Abell know.

1. Making changes to the Home page slideshow – See below for my video on using MetaSlider, and how to make changes to the Home slideshow on your website:
2. Using the image editor – While it is recommended that you use Photoshop or similar software to do advanced image editing, WordPress has a basic built-in image editor that can perform a number of the tasks you might need to accomplish. When you’re viewing an image in the media window, click “Edit Image.” A new page will appear with a row of buttons at the top that will give you several options, with pop-up tool tips when you hover over them. You can change the size of an image by going to “Scale Image” and specifying the dimensions. Basic images within pages can be many different sizes, but should be limited to about 2400px wide for most website designs. It’s recommended that you not increase the size of lo-res images, as this will cause them to appear “fuzzy.” To crop an image, click and drag a little on the image to get a crop-box started, and then in the two “Selection” parameter windows to the right, enter your desired dimensions (e.g. 300 x 300)… this will make the crop-box the desired size. Hover over your box until you get a cursor with four arrows, drag the box to where you want it positioned, and click the Crop button in the top row of buttons (on the far left).
   
   RESTORING ORIGINAL IMAGE – It is always recommended that you save an original version of the photo you are altering to your desktop before you save your changes in the WordPress image editor. However, if after saving your edited image you need to revert back to the original version, click Edit Image, and Restore Original Image.
   
   NOTE: Images that are not optimized and/or are high resolution (300 dpi or more) may take a long time to upload (for example, images that have just been uploaded from your digital camera), and will probably not display as quickly as images that are optimized for the web. It’s typically best to optimize these images for the web in Photoshop or other software.
3. Replace Media – A special plugin has been added to allow quick and easy replacement of items in the Media library. In the media library list view, hover over an item and select “Replace Media.” Make sure the new item has the exact same file name as the old item (e.g., “image.jpg”), select the “Just replace the file” radio button, and click Upload.
4. Controlling images – There are a number of ways to better control and customize display of your images in posts and pages, such as by “floating” images within a page, adding borders, and opening them using the “lightbox” effect.
   
   See below for my video showing more about these options:
5. Managing file sizes in Media Library – If you ever find yourself running out of disk space with your host, the culprit may be too many large images. Managing image sizes can be tricky… too big and you could run out of disk space eventually, and too small and they can appear pixellated if you try to display them larger. Your website has a number of improvements added to reduce the file size of larger images (known as “smushing”), as well as limiting the maximum height and width of uploaded images.
   
   See below for my video showing more about managing image sizes:

1. Home Page – Check out my video tutorial on making changes to the Home page, as well as more info on using Beaver Builder:

   NOTE for Wade: WP-SVG Icons is not used in your website design.

2. Contact Forms – Check out this video tutorial on making changes to your website’s contact forms using Ninja Forms:
• Viewing submissions to your contact form – When logged into WordPress as an admin: go to Ninja Forms > Submissions. This will show you a list of messages sent by users using your contact forms, in case you miss or delete an email received.

1. Menus – For more on managing your navigation menu(s), first you’ll need to go to Appearance > Menus. Then check out the following video for more info on menus (plays here between 1:16 and 4:56):
2. Footer Widgets – You have several widgets in a custom-built footer area of your website, with features such as hours, contact information, and social media links.
   
   Check out my video here to learn how to control these widgets, and I also show first-hand what to do if you hit a technical snag while working with WordPress (the answer is don’t panic!):
3. Testimonials – Check out my video tutorial on managing your testimonials page below:
4. Custom Post Types – In addition to Posts and Pages (described above), your website will have been equipped with a “custom post type” for Before & After photos. Check out my video here to learn more about custom post types, as well as more on the difference between posts and pages:
   NOTE for Wade: This has not been built yet, as of March 7, 2023. When it is, more info on this part of your website will appear here. See also the recording of our Zoom session, which will appear at the top of this guide.
5. SEO – You have a strong, free search engine optimization (SEO) plugin installed on your website called Yoast. Check out the video below for more on getting the most out of Yoast and how to make efforts to improve your search engine ranking (the video plays here after 8:41, as setup has already been taken care of):
6. Miscellaneous tips –
• Embedding YouTube videos in a post or page – In YouTube: Navigate to the YouTube page for your selected video, and right below the video, click the “Share” tab. Select “Embed”, and you’ll get a window with the embed code. Copy this code.

  In WordPress: To add a video into a post, choose Posts > Add New Post in the Classic Editor. Simply paste the embed code into the content of the new post in your WordPress Text Editor. Click “Publish.”