{"id":1213,"date":"2014-02-14T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?page_id=1213"},"modified":"2014-05-03T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:02:01","slug":"news-items","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/contributing-to-the-site\/news-items\/","title":{"rendered":"News Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News items (which are called Posts in our theme) are appropriate for any time-sensitive content that is not an upcoming <a title=\"Events\" href=\"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/resources\/contributing-to-the-site\/events-2\/\">event<\/a>. They appear in reverse chronological order on the Sangha News page.<\/p>\n<p>To create a new Post use the &#8220;+New&#8221; menu on the top menu bar that appears at the top of the screen when you are logged in, or use the &#8220;Posts|Add New&#8221; menu from the sidebar on any admin page.<\/p>\n<p>To edit an existing Post click the Edit button on the Post page.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get to the page, go directly to the site admin dashboard at <a href=\"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-admin\/\">https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-admin\/<\/a>, or use\u00a0 &#8220;&lt;site name&gt;|Edit Site&#8221; on the top menu bar if you are already logged in. Then select &#8220;Posts|All Posts&#8221; on the sidebar, find the Post using the Search function if necessary, and click &#8220;Edit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a minimum you just need to enter the title and some text and press the &#8220;Publish&#8221; button on the upper right.<\/p>\n<p>However for readability and to help search engines find the site you should also do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select a category in the Categories box.<\/li>\n<li>Enter a tag in the Tags box. This is a single word or short phrase that gives the topic of the post.<\/li>\n<li>Use &#8220;Set Featured Image&#8221; to associate an image with the post.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the post short and to the point. If you want to talk about multiple things, create multiple posts.<\/li>\n<li>If the post is more than 2 paragraphs long, use the &#8220;More&#8221; button to insert a &#8220;Read More&#8221; tag after the second paragraph.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News items (which are called Posts in our theme) are appropriate for any time-sensitive content that is not an upcoming event. They appear in reverse chronological order on the Sangha News page. To create a new Post use the &#8220;+New&#8221; menu on the top menu bar that appears at the top of the screen when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1193,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions\/1217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}