For posts related to member/officer use of the web site.
Introduction to the RAC Email Discussion Groups The Raleigh Astronomy Club communicates primarily through email. The club has email addresses through a service called “groups.io” which act like listserv’s. These lists facilitate club communication. Only members current on their dues are on the distribution list and only a valid email address is required to participate. To use the list, simply send an email to the email address and the service will automatically be distributed to everyone in the group. Messages…
Read More
When creating a post, and officer/committee head/admin can trigger the contents of the post to be posted to some or all of the RAC Social Media sites. This includes: Facebook Twitter Google+ When using this function please note that it will only post the FIRST time the article is published. Changes after the first time will not be pushed out to Social Media. Also, it is good idea to keep social media posts very short and concise. In order to…
Read More
By default, posts from members need to be moderated before they will publicly appear on the site. When a user enters a post from the front end of the site, the post will automatically go into a Pending state. An email will be sent to the RAC webmaster and officer alias to identify that a user post has been submitted. It must then be manually approved. In order to approve the post, go to the admin part of the site…
Read More
You can edit your profile information at any time by going to the My Profile screen. This screen can be accessed via the MEMBERSHIP INFO->EDIT MY PROFILE menu item. A sample is below: You can edit any of the fields in your profile (e.g. email address), except for the username, which is not changeable. Please note the following important items about your profile: It is highly recommended that you do not use your user name as the public display name.…
Read More
CALENDAR SYNC WITH GOOGLE These quick instructions will allow you to add events from the RAC calendar to Google Calendars. Any calendar app which accepts .ics files (which is the gold standard) should work, just the steps will be different. On your computer, open Google Calendar. On the left side, find “Other calendars” and click the down arrow . Select Add by URL. Enter ‘http://raleighastro.org/events.ics’ in the field provided. Click Add calendar. The calendar will appear on the left side…
Read More
The notification bar is used to show timely information at the top of the page for members (and optionally) the general public. In order to change this, navigate to the WPFront->Notifcation Bar menu entry. Te settings page contains all the field needed to configure the bar. The top part of the screen is displayed below: In this part of the screen, you should not make edits. Just insure that the Enabled box is checked. It is also highly recommended that…
Read More
There is not much user maintenance required on the RAC site. This post describes common tasks for officers in managing users. User List The User menu on the site dashboard allows you to view the current user listing for that site. You can access it via the Users or Users->All Users menu listing. If there are any actions needed you will see a red circle with the number indicating the outstanding number of actions needed (see above). Electronic Payment User Process…
Read More
Officers and Admins can create a user account manually, as opposed to requiring a user to go through the registration process. In order to create a user manually, go to the Users->Add New menu entry: Once you click this, you will see the new user screen: At a minimum the following fields need to be set. Username – must be unique on the site Email Role – See the Managing Users help post for more information on roles Optionally, you can set…
Read More
Events (calendar entries) are created separately than pages and posts. In order to mange the events, select the Events menu on the site dashboard. The default action is to list the current future events list. Editing an Existing Event In order to make changes to an event, click the event on the list to get the event editing screen. alternative, you can create a new event by clicking Add New. On this screen, you can change the event particulars: Title…
Read More
All member can create posts for the front page/site through the backend dashboard. In addition, officers and committee members can create and edit pages and other people’s posts. Any post not created by an officer or committee member must be approved by an officer or administrator before it is made public. Officers are notified via email when a member post is submitted for approval. For editing pages, the process is similar for posts, so the post process is shown below.…
Read More
