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Prior Lake News Compass

Prior Lake News Compass

Informed. Engaged. Connected.

Prior Lake News Compass

Tell the full story in long form

Sample Student, Editor-in-Chief
November 20, 2024

Want to tell the full story?  To get started click on New under the Stories tab on the left navigation bar in the WordPress dashboard. Enter the headline for the article. In the box to the right of the title, choose your title size for the Story Page,...

Choose the right image size for online

Sample Staff Member, Writer
November 20, 2024

Size your horizontal photos to 900px wide by 600px tall at a resolution of 72 dpi in RGB color mode before uploading them to your site. Always save photos in .jpg format. Your site will display vertical photos fine (except in the Showcase box), but the...

How to add a video to your site

November 20, 2024

You need to use a third-party video hosting service to store and serve video. These services are built specifically for serving high quality video, and their accounts are free. Start by creating an account and uploading video to a video-hosting site....

Another headline for a video story

November 20, 2024

This is another video story because it was published before the other video stories, it is displayed less prominently on the page.

Welcome to SNO: A video introduction

November 20, 2024

This orientation video provides a quick overview of your new SNO site and the SNO FLEX tools.

Avoid double story placement

Sample Student
November 20, 2024

If you place stories in more than one category, say both Showcase and Sports, the story will display in both of these sections on the homepage.  The recommend way of working with this is to place a story in the Showcase category first, and then once...

Design your site to fit your publication’s style

Sample Student
November 20, 2024

The SNO Framework is built around the idea of giving site owners complete flexibility with easy to customize options for every aspect of their sites. The SNO Design Options page, available under the Appearance tab on the left side of your WordPress...

Another headline goes here

Sample Student, News Editor
November 20, 2024

This is sample body text.  To delete this and other sample content, click on Manage under the Stories tab in your WordPress dashboard and just trash the stories that you no longer want to see. It is probably in your best interest to wait to trash these...

Sample Student Biography

November 20, 2024

To include a staff biography, click on New under Staff Profiles and fill out the required fields in the Profile Information Section.

Adding a featured image enhances each story

Sample Student, Sports Editor
November 20, 2024

There are two ways to add a photo to a story in WordPress.  One is to set the photo as a Featured Image for the story, and the other is to insert the photo into the body of the story’s text.  Your SNO site is designed to make use of the Featured Image...

Use the recent sports scores widget

Sample Staff Member
December 21, 2023

Your site includes a scrolling sports score box widget that can be set to display in any of your widget areas.  To adding a sports score, click on New under Sports Score on the left navigation bar in the WordPress dashboard. Enter placeholder text in...

Help is just a single click away

Sample Student
December 21, 2023

Having trouble with something on the site?  Help is only a click away. Click here to access all of our support materials and submit a support ticket if you can't find the answers you are looking for.