 Okay, I think it's close enough to 10 o'clock that we can go ahead and get started. Please let me know if you guys can't hear me or if the sound is not perfect. I will certainly try to fix that for you. Just let me know in chat if you'd like. Or if you have any questions during the presentation, you can also send that to me via chat. And I will just send out a chat message in case the sound is completely muted for some of you. While I'm waiting for a response to that, welcome to the presentation. I'm very glad to have you all here today. My name is Craig Lefteroff, and I am within Nebraska Library Commission. And today we are going to be talking a bit about our WordPress network. We have a WordPress network called Nebraska Libraries on the web. And I'll give you a little information about that. I am not going to give you an hour-long PowerPoint, but I do want to present some slides to start off to give you some basic information about what we do and how the network operates. Just a second. Okay, so a lot of information on this slide. Basically, there are two people here at the commission who are responsible for the WordPress network. My colleague Diane deals with issues relating to installation, configuration, backups, security hardware, and all that sort of back-end stuff. My role is more or less to help librarians and people in Nebraska Libraries get set up with websites and tweak those websites to their specifications. So if there's something that they specifically need their website to do, if they have a catalog search that they want embedded, or if they want their website to look a certain way, I'll help them with those sort of aesthetic features. If they want a certain degree of functionality, I'll try to find a plug-in that will satisfy those requirements. And also, I do create new sites by cloning, and we'll talk a bit more about that in the following slides. Okay, so this is our website, essentially. This is the front page of our network where people go to get information. It's free to Nebraska Libraries, and as part of the accreditation process in our state, Nebraska Libraries can get points for posting certain things on their website, things like policies or various other resources that they offer. So Nebraska Libraries on the web gives them a free way to do this. We don't charge any money, of course. The graphic by the tree with the bird says that we currently host more than 50 of Nebraska's library websites, and that's actually a little update. At this point, we have over 100, and I've got a chat. Just one second. Or not. False alarm. Oh, okay. Just one second. I want to make sure that the mic is working properly. Okay. Well, I'm waiting for a response about that. Let me go ahead and continue. As I said, we have over 100 websites, and we also provide websites for the four systems that administer our Nebraska Public Libraries. The program began in 2010, so it's been running for about six or seven years. Before I go on, is anyone else having issues with the sound? I have one person who apparently can't hear. Okay. Alrighty, thank you. It appears that the sound is working. I just have one person who's having issues. So let me just respond and see if we can work that out quickly. Hopefully that resolved the issue. So it's been around for quite a few years, and we have 225 different users on our site at the moment. As I said, Diane mostly takes care of the more hardware, sort of techy, server-y stuff. I can tell you that our network is installed on a Windows machine, and that's apparently relatively uncommon. I think most people are still using Apache for their WordPress network. If you guys do have any questions about the installation or configuration, I will be sending out an email after this presentation that has some resources with information about that. If you have any questions specifically for us, I can take those, ask Diane, and then get back to you. Okay, so I mentioned that we clone websites, and the way we do that is by a plugin called NSCloner. It looks like this. You can buy all sorts of upgrades, of course, as is usual with plugins, but the functionality that we rely on is mostly included in the free service. We do have one site set up as a default. It looks like this. And it's not an empty site. We have some information there, some pages already set up. You can see, hopefully, calendar, contact for kids and teens, all these pages that we have included on the default site. We also have a fake post with a fake comment on the default site. And the reason we do that is because when we clone something, it's essentially just a standard duplication of what we had. This way the site arrives with a bit of information, so our libraries aren't just starting from scratch. They already have some guidance as far as how pages work, how posts work, what you can do with comments. And they can go in and rename the pages if they don't necessarily want to have a Nebraska Resources page. They don't have to keep that. They can transform it into something else. Pictures of local history, anything that they want. So with that said, let's get away from PowerPoint for a bit. I'm just going to escape out of here and switch over to the site that we made. So we've been having issues with our network leading up to this presentation. Of course, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. So I went ahead and duplicated a site for us to use during the presentation today. Looks like this. As you can see, it's pretty much identical to our default site. And this is how it would arrive for one of our libraries who wanted to use the service. Once they've been added to the network as an administrator for their site, when they're logged in, they'll see this black bar at the top. And that allows them to go in and customize anything that they want to change on their site. If they click on customize, they have all these options that are available to them. So they can change colors. They can change the title of the site, the site identity. They can change the header image, which is something we'll circle back to, menus, widgets, and so on. Or they can start from kind of a grand perspective and change the theme. A WordPress theme, as many of you know, is essentially the way that a site is controlled, the way it's presented in terms of its look and its functionality. The default site arrives with 2010, which is very stripped down, very basic. So if someone wants to get a little fancier, they can go to their customizer and change it. We have 71 different themes running on our network right now. That includes child themes, which again we'll address later. But basically you can go in and just find something that looks appealing to you, click on live preview, and it will show up with your current content included. So let's try graphene. So you can see it makes major differences in the look and structure of the site. In some cases there are problems that might arise with the theme, things that you'd want to change. You probably don't want black text on a black background. Probably not a good idea. If you don't like a theme, you can always click X to exit out of it or go to change and change it to something else. One thing to keep in mind with themes, especially for those of you who are current users of our site, or service rather, different themes will have varying levels of functionality. So some themes are going to let you change all sorts of things under the sun on your site. You can see that we've got basic stuff like site identity colors, header image, and so on here. But if we change it to something that's a little bit more intricate, let's find something intricate. Usually they hang out towards the bottom. Point sounds like a good one. If we change it over to point, instead of just a basic list of stuff that we can change, we've got all sorts of different options. We've got our basics here, site identity colors, and so on. But if you go into theme options, you can change a plethora of things. Everything from the font to pagination, footers, single post, and so on. So aside from the look, the functionality is something that you'll also want to consider when selecting a theme. For those of you who aren't in our networks, or maybe dealing with a WordPress multi-site in your own state or thinking about setting up a multi-site installation, sometimes it's easiest if people want to change a lot of things to create a child theme. Let me switch over to our Network Admin page here. This would be my login, so I kind of have free reign to change a bunch of different stuff. And if we go to our themes list, we use a plugin called ChildThemify that basically makes it a one-click process to create a child theme. A child theme basically inherits or duplicates a lot of the content from its parent theme, but it allows you to make changes to the code so you can change things like fonts, you can change what appears on a particular page. We've used child themes in the past because some themes work perfectly, but they had some content that was a little iffy. We had one site that had an RSS icon that was rather off-color for a library site, so we made a child theme that blocked that RSS icon out. And you can see from the list, I've got 2010 Weaver, I've got 2010 Weaver Child. If we go into the child theme by clicking Edit, it basically tells me that it's inheriting the style sheet from the parent theme, but if I wanted to change something about it, I could do it here. And let me show you how I would do that. Let's just copy this guy over. Usually I'll do this in Firefox because it has a bit more robust tools for picking out elements. So if I decide I don't want this to be black, I want my title of the page to be a different color, I would right-click on it, say Inspect Element. In Firefox, this gives me the whole Element Inspector. And I've got my element here, Site Title A. I can change the color in my child theme area, so I'm not doing this for real, just as a kind of how to... But it would basically look like that, and that would override the style sheet that's inherited from the original theme. So then our color would be something different. That's actually black, so it wouldn't make much of a change. But if I wanted it to be purple or white or something like that, and it helps if you do it properly here. Okay, so I turned it white. It essentially disappeared on this white background, but it's still there. See? The great thing about child themes is that they are generally not affected by updates. You guys can see over here that I have 25 themes waiting to update. And if someone's made major changes to the look or feel of their theme through the Customizer, those updates might just wipe them out. A child theme wouldn't be affected. Those pretty much stay static. So if you're going to make sweeping changes, if you're going to make a lot of tweaks to your theme, I think a child theme is the way to go. And you can do this manually, but for us installing that child themeify plugin just makes it incredibly easy. All we have to do is just one click and then go into our child theme and make our changes to our code. I mentioned plugins. I mentioned the NS Cloner plugin and the child themeify plugin. You'll get varying information about how many plugins you should have on your network. I try not to overload ours too much, not because I think that plugins necessarily slow down the performance of the network, but I think sometimes when you have too many things installed for one issue, they work at odds with one another. So you have things that are trying to do the same thing and that leads to problems with the network. I also think it's tough when you have a lot of plugins to go in and read the collection, which you really have to do with a WordPress network. I'll show you what I mean here. So we have 63 plugins installed on the network right now. 32 of those are active. 31 are inactive, and that's basically kind of a holding pin for plugins that will be deleted shortly. I don't like to delete anything without giving people a chance to say, hey, I had this functionality and now it's gone. So I'll usually make a plugin inactive for a few months and then if no one has a comment about functionality being missing, I'll go ahead and delete it altogether. I think periodically it's helpful to go in and get rid of stuff that hasn't been updated for quite a while. So if we go into inactive here, go down to the bottom and take a look at WordPress database backup. If we click on View Details, that gives us some reviews, if any exist of the plugin. It also tells us when it was last updated. In this case, nine months ago, not a big deal. We're actually doing backups through a different means at this point. So this is kind of an unnecessary addition to our network. If we go into WordPress Change Font Size, on the other hand, last updated seven years ago, to me this is a big red flag. You want things that are updated recently that will work with your network. I think keeping plugins that are not curated or maintained is sort of playing with fire. And while that's loading, we will go back to PowerPoint for just a second. So there are a few plugins that I think would be useful to you if you are going to start running your own network or dealing with multiple sites, multiple administrators. One of the big ones that's been helpful for us has been WordPress, which is a security plugin that also lets me know via email when somebody tries to reset a password or when an administrator logs in to the system. Diane and I are actually the only two admins, super admins on our WordPress network. So if someone else tries to get in, it's an issue and it's good to get that email. In addition to that, it will tell me the top five failed logins. So you can see that admin and test have been used pretty often to try to get into our network and I suspect that's probably just brute force hackers or people kind of writing code to try to log in. We don't actually have as existing users and I'd recommend that you do the same if you're having a multi site because those tend to pop up again and again at the top of the list. If you're very serious about security, you could also consider changing the URL of your login. Most people use WP login or WP admin and if you switch it to something else that just removes that sort of common URL that people attack. I mentioned ChildThemify that's been helpful for us just creating the child themes. Jetpack is one that's sort of controversial. It's very robust. It does a lot of stuff and I'll show you that in the next slide. It covers all this ground. You've got Photon which speeds up the images and photos and protect and monitor and data back up. You guys can see that some of the elements of Jetpack are not active on our site just because I don't think they're necessary. One thing that it does that is an absolute necessity at least for us is the publicize feature and this actually pushes out the content from your website to your various social networks. If you want the things that your users are writing or posting to appear on their Facebook, Twitter and so on, publicize will do it for you. We'll get more into that later on in the second half of the presentation. Insanity is a relatively recent plugin that I've added and I did it because we were having issues with people using up their space. When the network began back in 2010 images weren't necessarily super gigantic by default but now with very high resolution cameras or even cameras on a phone a lot of the time images are taken from those devices and added to the network and they're super duper gigantic. Insanity allows me as an administrator to set limits on those and sizes them down automatically that way I don't have to go to individual sites and check their space log or how much space they have remaining and then go in and try to resize all their images which is usually what's causing a lot of the space to be consumed. There are other plugins that do the same thing but Insanity to me was the most user friendly. I can just go in and put a maximum height and width and so on so it kind of takes care of it for me. And in as Cloner I mentioned before if you're going to be creating new sites for people it's really easy just to make a default and clone that. Another one that I don't have installed yet but I think I'm going to during our next update is Yoast and this is basically the most widely acclaimed SEO plugin. There's another plugin that I haven't installed yet that I probably will end up installing called Advanced Custom Fields and it's again very highly praised so if you're doing a multi-site network it's probably a good idea to think about that. We have not as of yet upgraded to the newest version of WordPress but I've looked at some of the features that are available in that update and a few other things actually seem like they would duplicate elements of the customizer or things that we had done with child themes. One of the big changes is thumbnail previews for PDS which right now for PDS that our users update are near a gray icon. It looks like a document so if they have a ton of PDS and a ton of different policies it's sometimes not that easy to tell them apart just at a glance. With a thumbnail preview they'll basically get some idea of what's in the document so they can determine what actually needs to be uploaded to a page, what needs to be put into a menu and so on. This is a big one for me I'm not sure how this is going to work but apparently they're going to start implementing custom CSS into the WordPress customizer and this would duplicate what we do with the child themes where we go in and find the elements that need to be changed and then write the code so this will apparently be available inside each theme's customizer and the new version of WordPress. I'm curious to see how this works it's kind of an interesting development and they'll also have custom language selection so if I speak English and my fellow admins speak Spanish we don't necessarily have to have one uniform language which is the case with past versions of WordPress we can choose our own language and then have content presented to us in that language. And there are a few other innovations or updates in the new version of WordPress I'm actually kind of curious to get that updated and see how everything works. At this point we've about hit the midway for the presentation and actually this is the end of dealing with general things about our network and plugins and so on so if you guys have any questions please enter them into the chat box and we'll talk about them. While you guys are thinking I actually forgot to say that I was really happy to see so many people from Ohio and Kentucky signed up for the webinar I used to live in Versailles, Kentucky just down the road in the BDLA so it was very nice to see some of you signed up to attend and of course it's always nice to see our Nebraska libraries on the web participants as well. Okay so no questions I will keep going and the next I should say the second portion of the presentation will probably be most helpful to people who are already using our services I did ask for some questions to address during this presentation from you guys and you really came through and gave me some good ideas and I wanted to talk about some of the things that you had asked and to do that we'll go ahead and get out of PowerPoint and go back into our kind of fake cloned WordPress site here I had a question about the header image how to change it, where to get an image how to size it down and so on so many themes arrive with this image right in the middle at the top and you can change this in the customize option so if we click on customize here and then go into header image for most themes you're actually going to get the dimensions that are recommended right here some themes will include some additional header images as an alternative so for this time of year you might select this one but you don't necessarily have to use what's included you can actually track down your own images you'll want to make sure that the images are not governed by copyright they're available to you one of the sites that I've recommended to people recently has been pixabay.com there are a plethora of sort of free use image sites on the internet but this one is very large so it has a lot of the the topics that you might want to find and implement on your site if you're looking for something seasonal you might say winter okay and this looks alright to me a little bit of color when I've helped people with the header image in the past I've recommended that they use a program called urfin view to do their editing it's a free program very small so you're not waiting all day for the download and so on so let me just bring that up okay and what I'll do after I check and make sure this is free for use no attribution required and so on is basically just copy the image and paste that into urfin view okay so I've got my image it tells me it's 960 by 640 I did not memorize the dimensions needed so I'll go back to our page and check that needs to be 940 by 198 the thing that I like about urfin view is you can click and drag to resize things so 960 by 640 what I'll do is just start over here click and drag across and if you look at the top of our screen there it's telling me as I drag the dimensions of the selection so 940 you almost need a surgeon's hand to do this okay so we've got 940 by 254 and if we need it to be 198 I think yes 198 I will just start at the top here and bring this guy down okay so 940 by 198 at this point I will go ahead and edit and crop that selection so we've got exactly what we need 940 by 198 I'll just save it and a place that I can recall usually I put stuff on the desktop so they don't get lost and that's done now at this point I can click add new image here in the customizer for my site let's go ahead and upload that file find it on our desktop double click it and you will have the option to select and crop even though we just cropped it down to its required dimensions we can say skip cropping because it's basically perfect it's exactly what we need okay and now that's on our site you will need to hit save and publish to make it official and now when we go to the site we've swapped out the header image so it's a few steps but it's not very involved it's a pretty easy process and I will go back to the dashboard on our site to address the next question so this is sort of the admin side the back end of the site we were just looking at the version of the page that users would see that patrons would see build things and tweak things I mentioned before that people have issues with space sometimes you can tell that when you go into your dashboard because we have the add a glance section here it tells you how much storage space is allotted and also how much space is currently being consumed 1% of space is obviously not a big deal but let's just assume we're pretty close to say 94% space used and we want to free up some of that space an easy way to do that would be to shrink down some of your images especially if they were uploaded prior to insanity being active on the network and taking care of the stuff for us automatically so if we go into media library it shows us everything that we've uploaded including our winter header right there this image is quite big 2000x1500 it doesn't necessarily need to be that large on our page depending on how we're using it if you're just having an image that's essentially sitting off to the side of some text it doesn't need to be gigantic and as I said with devices set to default for the largest possible image sometimes it's useful to go in and shrink them down if I decided I wanted to shrink this down and make it a bit more manageable I would open up the image like this so it's basically got the attachment details at the top and it's got all these other things I'm going to go down to edit image at the bottom and you have a scale feature built into WordPress so if I decide that 1000 is plenty big for this photo it basically automatically gives me the other dimension so if I change something in this box it corresponds in the second box and then I can click scale makes it smaller but again if this is basically just sitting on your page beside some text you don't need it to be enormous so this should work if you do that to multiple images that will free up a lot of space on your site and if we go back to our dashboard for this site I suspect it probably hasn't changed 1% used it might be a little different in terms of the tags consumed I didn't remember last number sorry guys but for something that you know a site that's using around 95 96% that would be an easy way to get that number down ok so next question uploading some people are basically adding policies and procedures and various kinds of documents to their WordPress site and they might have run into some problems because WordPress does not automatically accept Microsoft office formats so if I open up Microsoft office word in this case and say something like policies the library will not allow food and drinks the Nebraska room let's say we have a local history collection with older bugs we don't want people bringing in coffee and whatnot so I will go ahead and save this as a document file and then we'll go back to our WordPress site when we upload things we're putting them into the media section I know that sort of makes you think about images but in this case we are also adding a document so if I click on add new go through the process of selecting a file and click on my policies it doesn't do anything because it doesn't know what to do with this Microsoft Word document thankfully Microsoft Word allows us to convert things and we do that by going to file then going to export and we're going to turn this into a PDF so instead of it being a document file we're going to make it a sort of finished unchangeable PDF of course you do want to keep your original Word document file in case changes do arise later or you want to tweak things you can then export that new version as a new PDF but for now we'll just create this as PDF put it on the desktop so we can find it and it will probably give us a pop up here yes it did so now we'll go back to our website back to the dashboard and say select files and instead of clicking on the Microsoft Word version we're going to click on the PDF that is on our site so it's in our library right here we've got policies and it's all set to be used on our page one thing about PDF that's very useful is that you can create a page that points directly to the PDF so if I go in and grab the URL from this PDF this is basically the address that points right to that document I'll just copy it and then create a new page and there are multiple ways to do this on our network you can go up here and say new page or you can go here and say add new to your pages you have a ton of options as most users of our network have seen of course but if you go down to the bottom you have the option to change this from a normal WordPress URL to a custom URL which means when someone opens up this page they would go straight to that policies document policies for Nebraska Room and then we'll publish it and it is a live page on our site if we go into our page here you see it's been added as a link so now if a page run, if a user comes to our page and clicks on this it goes straight to the PDF they don't have to click through a million different embedded links and so on it's just a straight shot right to the policies document okay next question would be about plugins and widgets for plugins you guys really don't have to worry too much about them if there's something that you want to do that doesn't seem to be available on your site you can always let me know and we'll seek out a plugin for you that will resolve that issue widgets are something that are available to you and there are a ton of options with widgets so on your dashboard if you scroll down the page to appearance and then go to widgets you will see all this sort of stuff available widgets we've got two columns of options your page also arrives with some widgets already included and if you don't want anything that was included you can always just go over like for meta and say delete we don't need meta on our page so we'll just delete it out categories don't need it delete and so on you do have multiple widget areas with most themes so it might be helpful while you're looking at this widget section to go ahead and load up your page as well and I'm just going to open up our page in a new tab that way when you add stuff or delete stuff you can tell where it's located on the page so if I decide I want Google translator in my secondary widget area and I click on add let's just say translate page the title and save it now I can go back over to my live site and refresh it and I know it's not it's sort of difficult to differentiate between the first widget area and the second widget area but these are actually two different sections you also have second footer widget, fourth footer widget so it gets rather cramped depending on your theme and the structure of your page we'll go ahead and delete this out for now one thing that I did want to point out in terms of widgets is that you have a text widget available which is kind of a catch all it's almost like a bucket where you can put all sorts of stuff you know code you can put text and so on so your text widget will allow you to put in arbitrary text or HTML and it's really just kind of a blank slate you've got a title field and you've got a content field where your code would go what we've done with this in the past has been to set up things like local forecast when people want to get the weather the weather channel I think has a widget that's available and you can just copy the code and put it right in you can also do that with Facebook you can do it with Twitter so a lot of those websites and sort of third party social networks will have the code available that you can incorporate into your text widget and then that would appear on your page if you guys are interested in doing that or if you run into any problems of course just get in touch with me and I'll help you out with it next question sending stuff to your social networks that is handled I think I have a question number of users are site visits yes those those are available to you let me see if I have it on this clone site I don't think that I do but if I go back to the administrator side to dashboard we basically have a site stats section on the dashboard here and if you don't have this on your page please let me know I'll get it set up for you but it will track the number of visitors per day you can also see which posts are doing well so in this case I want to participate and also the top search which can be very helpful too is there a new link for Nebraska Overdrive library so that's not necessarily something to deal with Nebraska libraries on the web but I might let my colleague know that there's something pending there okay no problem so basically if you're sending stuff out to the dashboard so that is through the Jetpack plugin if you log into your dashboard and you see this please connect Jetpack that means that stuff is not going out to Facebook it's not going out to Twitter and so on so you'll need to connect it it's a very easy process just click on connect Jetpack and wait a few minutes this will take you out to wordpress.com this is basically not the same as your login for your website so it's something new if you already have an account you can click on sign in if not you can create an account and I'll see if I can do that now okay so if you've never done this before you will want to create an account again if your Jetpack is disconnected you can also get in touch with me and I'll connect that for you but we've basically created our new account here so we'll sign up and connect Jetpack and it is authorizing our connection finishing up and we are connected if you get to this screen please do not click on any of the premium options that are available we don't necessarily need it we're doing backups we've got all this stuff covered in other ways so we don't need the Jetpack to do it for us we'll just click on select free alright and ordinarily I don't bother going through the jump start thing but that can kind of give you a walk through what they have available if we click on skip and then go to publicize that is where our connections to the social networks are located so we'll click on the little gear icon lets us configure the publicize option and here you should see your social networks that are available so for publicize in this first section these are the places that are going to receive your content when you create a new post when you put a new photo on your site it would be pushed out to these various other social networks you also have sharing buttons which will add these little buttons below each post so if your users are reading a post and they think this would be really cool to share with their friends they can send it out to facebook theoretically ah there we go sorry guys I'm a professional um twitter google plus and to be honest with you some of this stuff I have no idea what it is I don't know what telegram is I assume maybe it's a network that is no longer that active or maybe it's just not in my age range maybe it's a millennial thing but those are all available to you if you're seeing the button that says connect here it means you do need to connect and log on to your facebook in order to make that connection and push your content out ok and you will be able to determine who needs to see these posts you might want to change this from just friends if it's your library page if you want the public to see it that would be an option and then click ok once you're done and then ok again alright so and I have two different accounts on there so at this point it showed me I'm connected when I go to create a new post it's got a section for publicize and it should show that it's connected to my facebook so whatever I write here whatever I publish on my site will go out to facebook if you have all that stuff showing that it's connected and that you have the publicize thing on your post but it's still not showing up on facebook sometimes it's necessary to go in and kind of restart that connection almost like you restart a computer if you go into jetpack go back to publicize and then just click the X to disconnect it that basically cuts the connection so whatever is going wrong will be severed and you would just start from scratch here so you would say connect and then enter your login information that usually does the trick if that doesn't work please get in touch with me and we'll see what's going on ok we have about 10 minutes so next question how to preview a post or a page before it appears on your site very easy to do if I go into add new and I am putting a post in for holiday party free hot chocolate I can go here to the preview button and it will give me a preview of how this will look on the page this is really helpful if you're embedding things like images or if you're dealing with you know code of some sort but that's basically how you would do it speaking of code you guys do have two different views on your post and your pages you have the visual view which is almost like a word Microsoft word view a text editor you just type and it shows what's there you also have the text view here and the difference would be if I want to emphasize free and make it bold I can then go to text and it's got the strong tags so if you guys are familiar with coding or if you prefer to code things and use the menu that's here you do have that text option available to you ok and last question putting post in order let's leave this page so right now we don't have a way to put post in order in terms of saying this top post needs to be number 9 this post needs to be number 3 and so on but we have one option that's active on the network that would allow you to keep something at the very top of the page right now we got hello world as the only post on our website what I can do if I wanted to make hello world the first thing that people see regardless of how much content is added to the page is go in and click edit and under the visibility section right over here on the right you'll click edit again and choose stick this post to the front page that makes it a sticky post so it stays at the top no matter what else is added say ok and update and now I will go back to my hot chocolate post let's go ahead and publish that Cindy said she also found sticky in quick edit so yeah as you guys know with wordpress there at least 5 different ways to do the same thing that's true of anything from adding new posts to making changes and so on ok so this was our site it's got hello world which was our only post and we just added the new post about the holiday party we didn't make this a sticky post so we refresh the page you'll see our sticky post here has a little bit of a blue background and it's sitting at the top even though this is the newer post published just now sticky post still reigns at the top this might be helpful if you have a post that is a catalog link or something that you know your patrons are going to go to first you might want to keep it a sticky just to keep it visible and important on the page and if you guys do need the functionality of selecting certain posts to be in a certain order please let me know because there's probably a way that we can do that if it's important to you let me check the time ok we've got about 5 minutes left to go did you guys have any questions anything that you wanted to address that I didn't talk about while you're thinking let me tell you that I will be sending out basically the video link for this presentation that will be available on the commission youtube page and I'll also be sending you a list of resources things that I didn't cover about dealing with the functions file or installation or all that sort of backend sort of thing also for people who are currently using our site there are a few beginner or how to resources that I think might be helpful to you so I'll be sending that out as well and I think I have a chat updating the calendar ok that actually depends on which calendar you're using we have multiple calendars available so for the one that's active on our page let's go to all calendars calendars not found so let's see ok we'll keep it grey theme you can also change the color when you're setting up your calendar and just say publish ok so you see we have this calendar short code you might want to do something with that later on you might want to bring it into text widget for now I'm just going into the calendar and down towards the bottom we have preview or add event if I click on that in this case with this particular calendar it lets me bring up something and I can say holiday party here and save it ok we also have the add event here there's a pop up sorry holiday party event dates and sorry about the military time for some calendars they require that and we can't change it so my apologies and just keep it going until 2100 no venue added we could certainly add the library's location for some reason I think it's picking up England as our location but sorry if anyone from Ashland is watching this we're sending people to have a holiday party at your event and you can fill in all this other information once you're done click on publish there are multiple calendars running on our network right now so there are multiple ways to do things if you run into problems with your particular calendar please let me know and I'll work with you directly to get that working and set up the way you'd like I hope that answered the question ok so we are close to 11 o'clock do you guys have any other questions ok well thank you all very much for attending today I really appreciate it I know this is sort of the busy season with the end of the year approaching and all your holiday activities so thanks very much for making time for me if you do have any questions for people who are using our network or people who are outside the network who attended today please feel free to email me and just get in touch and I will hopefully be doing another one of these in a few months to address other issues with WordPress and talk to our users about things they can do for now thanks again and have a great day