These Tutorials will help you to be able to do the things required of the roles that you have been assigned.

There are a couple of ways to log into the backend of the site.

1. Log in through the login menu item on the front end of the site. Input your username & password and on successful login, you will see a dark menu bar at the top of the browser window. Click the Hunter River Dragons title at the top left of the screen and you will be taken to the dashboard screen.
2. type the URL into the address bar of your browser with /login appended, eg. hunterriverdragons.com.au/login. You will then be shown the WordPress login screen. Input your username & password, click Log In and you will be taken to the dashboard at the backend of the site.

Select Events > Add New from the dashboard.

Add in the event title where it says “Add title” at the top of the window see image below this text. Below that, you can fill in details regarding the event. You can add in images, PDF files or even links in this section

In the text editor window shown above, you can put details of the event as text, images, PDF files or anything that you can put into a normal text editor.

Add in the event date and times, the all day tick box will start the event at midnight and finish at midnight. You can set the time zone, but by default it will display Sydney time zone.

Create or select a venue and decide if you want to show a map or map link. If the tick box is ticked, the map will appear when you select the event listing on the Events page. Venues can also be created from the dashboard at the left of screen

The create or select an organizer for the event follows the same format as the location dropdown where you can select an organizer from the dropdown list or create an organizer by typing a new name in the input box. Organizers can also be added via the dashboard on the left.

Once complete, scroll to the top of the page and click the Publish button on the right hand side of the screen. The event has been created.

To remove an event

Select Events > Events to display all events. Select the tick box to the left of the event you want to delete and select the dropdown at the top of the page with “Bulk actions”. Select “Move to Trash” and then click “Apply”

To Edit an event

Select Events > Events to display all events. Hover your mouse over the title of the event you want to edit and you will see some options appear that you can click. Edit will open up the original create event with all information. Simply make your changes and then click the update button. Quick Edit will open up a summary screen with most of the editable options available. Make your changes and click Update to save. Trash will delete the single event. View will display the event in a browser window. EA Duplicator will create a copy of the event. You can use this if the bulk of the event is the same as the one you want to copy. You only need to make your changes to title, dates’ times etc. and click update to create an entire event. This would be a great way to create recurring events where you would only need to change the year for example.

Select NextGen Gallery from the dashboard left of screen, Add Gallery/Images

Select the Import from Media Library in the left column.

Type your new gallery name in the input box that says Gallery title and click the Select Images button to open the media library. Select your images for your gallery, hold down CTRL key on the keyboard to select multiple images. If you need to upload images from your computer, select the Upload files tab at the top of the window, and either drag your images onto the window or use the select files to browse your computer for the images.

When you are finished selecting your images, click the select button, bottom right of screen. You will be taken back to the Add Gallery/Images screen. This screen will now have a new button called Import X Images, X being the number of images you selected. Click the button and you will receive a message that the number of images was uploaded successfully. If the upload failed, check to make sure that you have a gallery name in the Gallery drop down.

To see your new gallery, select Manage Gallery from the dashboard on the left and you will see your new gallery listed

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To Add A Gallery to an Album

To Add a gallery to an album (an album is a collection of galleries and are displayed on the Gallery page on the main menu), Click Manage Albums from the left dashboard

Select “My Album” from the dropdown. You will then see the galleries that are in the album in the column on the left side if the screen, galleries that are not in the album will be in the center column. 

You can simply drag the gallery to the album column on the left. You can adjust the position of the gallery on the page by dragging the gallery into position or you can drag galleries out of the album back to the gallery column.

Clicking the update button will save the album setting and will now display the gallery on the gallery page.

To Edit The Album Name

Select the album from the select album dropdown box and select the Edit Album Button, type in new album name, description (Optional). The rest can be left as is. Select Ok to confirm, Cancel to abort any changes.

To delete the album

Select the album from the select album dropdown box and then select Delete button. You will be given a warning. Select OK to delete, Cancel to abort the action

Adding or Deleting Images from an Existing Gallery

Select Add Gallery/Images from the dashboard on the left of screen and select Import from Media Library

Select the gallery name from the dropdown box to add the images to and click the Select Images button. Select your images, hold CTRL key on the keyboard to select multiple images. Click Select button, bottom right of screen to finish your selection. You will be taken back to the Add Gallery/Images screen where a new button “Import X Images” will be displayed, (X= number of images selected). Click this button to upload the images.

Go to Manage Galleries on the dashboard on the left of screen and select the title of the gallery to see the new images uploaded there.

To Delete Image/s from a Gallery

Go to Manage Galleries on the dashboard on the left of screen and select the title of the gallery to see the new images uploaded there. Clicking the tick box/s next to each image you want to delete or you can tick the ID box above the images to select all images.

To delete your selected images, click the Bulk Actions dropdown box and select Delete Images. Click Apply to confirm your actions.

To Change the name of a Gallery

While in Manage Galleries section, select the gallery title you want to change. The gallery images will be displayed. Click the down arrow next to Gallery Settings and a screen will open up with options. Type in the new name next to Title: and click save changes button to confirm the change.

Adding New Videos to Gallery Page

Open the Gallery Page for editing with Elementor

You will see the video section that has been divided into 3 columns and 3 rows

Select a blank cell and add an image from the dashboard on the left of screen

Select Add Media from the top of the text editor and select or upload your image.

Select Style and set the image height to 220

Select content and set the image resolution, around 800 to 1000 should be ok

Select Custom Caption and type in the caption you want to display

Select Custom URL and add the URL of the video.

Click Update and check it on the live site.