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Customize the look and feel of your site

Sample Student
November 20, 2024

The look and feel of this site is created by a combination of style and layout choices. To help get you started, your site came with a preselected style, but you can change this preset style to create a different baseline look. You can change the fonts,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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....

Student Biography

November 20, 2024

There are many ways to display the Staff Bios.  Check out the options on the SNO Design Options page under Staff Page.

Use social media to increase readership

Sample Staff Member, Staff Writer
November 20, 2024

Social media platforms are the best way to drive traffic to your new site. So, set up a Facebook Fan Page, and get your audience to like your publication. Even add a Facebook Like Box to your website to increase your audience.  Then when you publish...

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.

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...

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