All Alumni, Faculty, Newsroom, MBA, Dean, and Press Release articles live under Posts, which is called the Newsroom on the front-end.

Example Post (must be logged into WordPress to view): https://business.wisc.edu/news/article-title/

For Website Launch

Updating Categories

  1. The new categories were added to WordPress. I was able to rename some old categories, which re-categorized some posts, but that didn’t capture all of the posts. And I was afraid to do too much because I didn’t want to categorize something improperly, so you need to make sure each post has the correct category. I left some of the old categories in case it’s helpful, but those should get deleted before site launch.
  2. Go to Posts in the left menu. In the same left menu, you'll see Categories listed under Posts. Click Categories to see all the current category options. To see which articles have that category, click the number,


Updating Tags

  1. You need to tag all the articles with the new set of tags.
  2. Suggestion: Go to Posts in the left menu. In the same left menu, you'll see Tags listed under Posts. Click Tags to see all the current tags. Find something that is close to the new tag that has a lot of posts and rename it to the new tag. That whole set is done. For other ones that need that tag, you will have to go into them one by one. 

Add New Post

  1. Navigate to Posts in the left menu.
  2. Click Add New.
  3. Add the title of the article in the top field.
  4. For body copy, you can just start typing or click the plus sign to add a block. Blocks you'll want are paragraph and heading. We are working on the Aside blocks right now.
  5. Subtitle = leave blank for now because we don't have this set up
  6. Author override = Author defaults to your name (the person making the post). If you want it to be something else, say Dean Samba, put Dean Samba's name here. Optional.
  7. Photography credit = if you want to provide a photography credit, put it here. Optional.
  8. External URL = not sure what this does, probably don't use it
  9. Hide featured image = Check if you want to hide the featured image
  10. Related Posts = Defaults to pulling in 3 random posts from same category. Is supposed to let you pick the three posts... not sure this is working.
  11. Yoast SEO = you only need to add meta description (can change SEO Title from default if desired, however it should end in | Wisconsin School of Business)
  12. Categories = In the right menu. Uncheck Uncategorized and pick the one category this article falls under
    1. Category options: School News, Faculty Insights, Alumni in Action, Student Experience, Dean's Corner, Press Releases
  13. Tags = In the right menu. Add your tags, make sure they are from the tag list and spelled/capitalized exactly as listed (Tag list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Stgz9AA8U32cdM-GKwOHaLZdaXBOxEWzy-BxlCoM-UY/edit?usp=sharing)
  14. Set Featured Image in the right menu. Upload images to the Newsroom folder (under blogs). We could add more folders inside Newsroom (by year or by category) if want to add more organization.


Edit Post

  1. Navigate to Posts in the left menu.
  2. Find the post you want to edit in the list of posts or search for it.