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Advanced WordPress: Block Editor Tips and Tricks (Spring 2023)
This is a recording of the Palomar College Spring 2023 Flex Week workshop.
Learn about some of the often overlooked, but useful blocks that are available in the WordPress Block Editor.
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Using the WordPress Block Editor (Spring 2023)
This is a recording of the January 24th workshop during Spring 2023 Flex Week.
Learn how to take full advantage of the new WordPress Block Editor. This workshop will help site admins switch from the Classic Editor to the Block Editor and demonstrate how to use it when crafting pages and posts.
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What’s New in WordPress? (Spring 2023)
This is a recording of the January 24th workshop during Spring 2023 Flex Week.
Updated for Spring 2023. Find out about new WordPress features and updates. This workshop will help existing users learn what has changed and how to make the most of the new features.
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The (New) WordPress Block Editor
The WordPress Block Editor delivers a rich and flexible editing experience. Though we’ve been using the Block Editor for a while, as of January 2023 Palomar fully adopted the Block Editor as the core WordPress editor and the legacy Classic Editor is no longer supported. Here are some resources you may want to explore:
- The WordPress and Block Editor Training Playlist in PD
- Please see Chapters 3 and 5 for Block Editor-specific information
- How-To Tutorial on WordPress.org
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The New Gravity Forms Experience (Version 2.5)
Gravity Forms 2.5 is now available for Palomar College websites. If you are an existing Gravity Forms user, there are a few changes that you should know about. You can read the full details from the developers of Gravity forms on their blog or, even better, see it in action by viewing the video covering the most important new features, including:
- Improved Accessibility
- New Form Editor
- Drag and Drop Columns
- Improved Markup and Styles
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Export/Import Layouts from Site to Site: Site Origin Page Builder
The SiteOrigin Page Builder plugin allows you to create complex WordPress pages without ever having to write a line of code. If you’re looking for an intuitive way to make multiple columns, accordion toggles, or other complex interactive features for your website, this page builder might make sense. If you don’t see this plugin in your WordPress dashboard, contact ATRC Support and request to have it activated.
This demonstration illustrates how to use the import/export workflow to move a layout from one site to another. Enjoy!
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Expanding Your WordPress Menu Skills
This is part two of a two-part series on how to expand your WordPress menu skills. In this 8-minute video, Kelly introduces three additional menu types:
- The dropdown expanding menu item
- The custom link type: how to link to a PDF in the media library
- The category link type
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Menu Editing Basics in WordPress
This is part one of a two-part series on how to create a menu in WordPress. Topics covered in this 3-minute video include:
- 00:07 – The Menu Editing Area
- 00:33 – Getting to the Menu Editing Area From The Dashboard
- 00:47 – Editing the “Main Menu”
- 01:20 – Add a New Page to the Menu
- 02:06 – Always Save the Menu!
- 02:25 – Check the Menu on the Live Site
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Widget Quick Tour | Add a Navigation Menu to the Sidebar
This 7-minute session includes:
- Overview of widgets in WordPress
- How to add a secondary navigation menu to the sidebar
- How to control the visibility of a widget
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