How to Create an Article

Before writing your post article, please read the important FPARC Styling Guide.  Maybe keep it open for help while you write your article.

To begin with, you can create a new article from scratch, or clone an existing one to amend to your needs.

Creating an Article.

You can create an article from scratch as follows:-

1. Log into the website: https://fparc.uk/wp-login.php
2. On the left-hand-side dashboard, look to the Posts menu and select Add a New Post.
3. Add a title in the very first field at the top of the window (e.g. “My First Transceiver” is a decent title).
4. Go to the Categories box look for “Articles“. Tick the category underneath the Articles list that’s relevant to the subject you’re going to write about (eg QRP). If there isn’t an appropriate category, ask a website administrator to create (a) new one(s) for you. Important – do not select a category outside of the Articles list. This will cause your post to be placed in areas of the website that you don’t want.
5. Now, use the main body of the post to write your article; it works just like a word processor.
   • You can write as little or as much as you like – but remember that someone will be reading your article, so make it interesting!
   • Remember to break-up your article into manageable sections, using headings 2-6 to summarise each section’s topic.
   • Remember to hit [Save Draft] every so often (maybe 30 minutes?) so that you don’t accidentally lose your work through computer failure.
6. When you’re all done, the last thing is to click on Set Featured Image in the Featured Image box. This will open the Media Library for you to choose a suitably large-ish image (or upload a new one) that represents your article. This image will be used by the website (and sometimes online services like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Bing, Yahoo etc) to represent your article.
7. If you wish, you can enter/select some tags for your article (for information about WordPress tags, see this Google query).

If you want to preview your article, click [Preview] button.

If you want to come back to this event to complete it later, click [Save Draft] button.

When you’re ready to publish your article to the website, click the [Publish] button.

Cloning an Article

As an alternative to creating an article from scratch, you can go to the list of articles (see: https://fparc.uk/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=articles)†, hover your mouse over the article that you’d like to clone, and select the Clone option underneath the title.

This will create a new draft post containing all the information from the original article. This might save you time, and you might be able to use formatting techniques used previously.

† Editors will be able to see everyone’s articles. Authors will be able to see only articles they themselves have written.

Once Published

When your article is published, different parts of the website will update themselves automatically. No need to edit those pages yourself to show there’s new content.

Final Checklist