Category Archives: Author Help

Regular Backups

Regular backups of the PCCBS content is necessary to ensure that the site's content is never lost due to server malfunction or author error.
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Author and Administrator Levels

Accounts can be for registered users, authors, and administrators. The abilities of accounts on pccbs.org range from levels zero to nine, with higher levels having greater responsibility for the site's content and function.
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Images, PDF files, and other uploads

You do not need to know HTML in order to link to files that you have uploaded to the site. [Smart links->Adding smart links to articles] make displaying images and linking to PDF files a little easier than using HTML.
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Adding smart links to articles

The quicktags "link" button will let you add links if you know the URL. But you can also add automatic, [smart links->Smart link plugin] that grab the URL from the links that the web site already knows about: pages, articles, links, and categories, in that order. For example, a link to the [conference information->] section of the PCCBS web site does not require that you know the link. It requires only that you look over to the category listing on the right and type the name. If the category's URL ever changes, all articles that reference it as a smart link will update automatically. This is especially useful for e-mail addresses or other links that change regularly.
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Writing articles and pages

These [author help-] pages are visible only to authors, and only when they are logged in. You don’t need any of this. If you just want to [write articles-wp-admin/post.php], all you need do is write them. You do…
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