Training Intro to PDA Content
Content Types
Go to> Content when you need to add a new content item of these:
- News
- Events
- Exhibitor-Sponsor-Media
- Volunteer Opportunity
- Volunteer Spotlight
- Chapter
- Publications
- PDA Letter
- PDA Glossary
- Agenda
- Lists
- Images
- Documents & Files
- Ads
- Press Releases
- Sponsorship Opportunities
- Chapter Presidents
- Speakers
- PDA Staff
These Content types are built for the homepage, but might be usable on other pages
- Homepage Features
- Quicklinks
Page Templates available
The template name indicates which components are present:
- Blank = Full width. No: title, breadcrumbs, preset columns, "In This Section".
- Blank - Title Block= Full width, with title block.
- Interior - Blank = Yes columns. No: title, breadcrumbs, "In This Section".
- Interior - Title = Yes: title, columns.
- Interior - Title Block = Yes: title block, columns.
- Interior - Title, breadcrumbs = Yes: title, breadcrumbs, and columns.
- Interior - breadcrumbs = Yes: columns and breadcrumbs. No: title.
Understanding Widgets
Sitefinity comes with many widgets. Many are custom styled for your use as part of the content plan. The others would need additional budget/effort to style them. This list will demonstrate which are which.
Standard Content Widgets
- Blog- not being used
- Blog posts- not being used
- Card- can use 'as is', No additional styling or work is planned.
- Comments- not being used
- Reviews- not being used
- Content Block
- Events (customized - see above)
- Form
- List
- Documents List- can use 'as is', Recommend use Content block.
- Video- not being used. Recommend to embed YouTube or Vimeo code in content blocks.
- Video Gallery- not being used
- Document Link
- Image- can use 'as is', Makes it easy to set an image as a link to pages. No additional styling or work is planned.
- Image Gallery - not being used
- News- to list specific types of News items including home page
- RSS Feed- being used to integration with journal.pda.org
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- Curated Content. This is a custom widget. Allows you to set the Title, View Template (4 view options), Manual select items (or automatically list content by categories).
- Dynamic document generation - both Word and PDF - justification letter for events
Reminder about using List Widgets (i.e. News, Events)
Use edit to adjust all three tabs of settings:
- Content - set which items to list (usually based on date or category)
- List - set how many items, which list template, and how to Sort (usually by publish date or title)
- Single item - set this to the specific Detail page built for your site