Tutorial Videos

This section contains a handful of tutorial videos we’ve created to help you with your content entry.

CMS Trainings

CMS Training, Part 1

This training covers the various page blocks from your website’s Page Block Library – the modular content block types that you can use to customize your pages.

CMS Training, Part 2

This training covers how to administer your menus, and also dives into how to administer your post types.

Pages, Posts, and Features

Creating an Area of Study detail page

Best practices for creating an Area of Study detail. Emphasis on using a featured image in the hero page block… if you need a reference for which image to use for featured image, please refer to current site’s major/minor page, and grab the image that exists at the top of the page.

Editing mega menus and home featured area

Walk-thru demo covering all the options available for displaying content in the mega-menus. Additionally, how to edit the featured items in the homepage hero box on the right.

Using the Columns Page Block to build the Annual Reports page

This video demonstrates how versatile the Columns Page Block is, and serves as a great tutorial for how an admin could build-out a more robust Annual Reports landing page, for example.

Updating icons for Interests within the Areas of Study

This video demonstrates how to add (or update) icons for the various “interests” within the Areas of Study.

Understanding the Post Feed Page Block and Tags

This video demonstrates how to use Tags with the Post Feed Page Block.

Using Ninja Forms on your Site

This video demonstrates how to build forms using Ninja Forms.

Updating Details on the Campus Map

This video demonstrates how to update the info that is displayed when a user clicks on the pins on the Campus Map landing page.

Best Practices for News posts; How to use Display Authors

This video demonstrates some best practices for creating a simple/clean News post, and then also dives into adding a Display Author to a post (and how to create new Display Authors).

Creating a Robust Faculty / Staff Bio Page

This video demonstrates what an ideal faculty / staff bio page could look like. We understand not every person on the Olivet staff will have enough copy to support this “robust” variation of the page, but we wanted to document what an ideal bio could look like. Admins have the freedom and flexibility to add & remove page blocks at their discretion.

Creating Events

This video walks through the rationale for how an event listing can be built. We share the static design that we presented in the Design Phase, and then we walk through how to use page blocks to craft an event detail that works best for you.