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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...

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...

Drop the sidebar and expand the story

Sample Student
November 20, 2024

This story is currently using Full-Width Page Template. Every story has three options for its story page: Full-Width, With Sidebar, or Long Form. Simply, select which you would like on the left hand side of the Edit Story page. The default for this option...

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...

Create a custom header

Author, Writer
November 20, 2024

Your header graphic should have your logo, organization name, tagline, and any other essential information about your program. Your graphic should be sized to 980px wide, and the height should be between 100px and 200px. You can upload your header graphic...

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.

Sidebar offers more room for widgets

Sample Student
November 20, 2024

This story is currently using With Sidebar Page Template. Every story has three options for its story page: Full-Width, With Sidebar, or Long Form. Simply, select which you would like on the left hand side of the Edit Story page. The default for this...

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