How To

How To

This hidden section of pages on your website are here to help you with managing the different elements of your website.

How to Edit Your Site

Helpful links to guide you in managing and creating content on your new website.

Quick Note: When editing or creating new pages, if your page or section is not looking as it should, go to the page block library and reference the styles and formatting that we’ve used on the comparable widget. If it doesn’t match, follow the instructions to insert a page block on page from the library. And re-enter your content.

Support Library

Find the entire library of CMS support articles in our support library’s Content Management Tips


CMS Training Videos

Timestamps

  • Overview of Content Workbook/page statuses (2:40) 
  • How-to Pages Tour (8:30-15:20) 
  • Building a page from scratch (15:24-36:30)
    • Elementor welcome
    • Adding templates/blocks
    • Deleting, Duplicating, adding widgets
    • Drag & drop
    • CSS classes (also, see below)
  • Editing imported pages (36:30-40:50)
    • Imported CSS 
    • Copy/pasting into new blocks
    • Additional fields in WP
  • Additional PBL notes 
    • Form block/HTML widget (31:25-33:48)
    • Column Cards (linked vs nonlinked, duplicating, adding depth CSS) (41:40-46:40)
    • Logo block (46:50-49:50)
    • Brian’s quick PBL run-through (1:06:55-1:14:00) 
  • Post Types (for Resources: IGNORE this section, watch 6 min Loom video instead; News, Events, and Team posts do apply to these instructions) (50:00-1:01:30)
    • Editing title, categories, content in WP
    • Editing template in Theme Builder
  • Menus Overview (1:02:36-1:05:50)

Supplementary Videos

Additional Notes About YOUR CMS

These are the CSS classes that sometimes get edited/deleted on accident. That’s okay. Mistakes happen and that is why we have this Q&A.

FIRST, make sure you can find the CSS field, as WP often hides it from users. Go to Appearance > Menus and at the top of the page is a drop down that reads “Screen Options”. Expand that and under “Show advanced menu properties” make sure the “CSS field” option is checked. 

Get Started button in the main navigation

  • If the button style accidentally gets deleted or is not appearing, here is where you edit that to get it back:
    • Appearance > Menus > Select the Main Nav (Header) > Expand Get Started > ensure the class “menu-btn” appears in the CSS class field

Secondary Menu Icon Classes

  • Your Secondary Nav 2 has several links with icons next to them. To get those icons, the following CSS is used:
    • Support icons: “nav-icon nav-icon–support
    • Login icons: “menu-button nav-icon nav-icon–user

Hidden except in Mobile Navigation items

  • The main menu may have a bunch of pages listed that do not appear in the main navigation on desktop, but they do appear on mobile devices.
    • In the menu link in Appearance > Menus > main navigation > These extra pages have a menu class of “mobile-only”.

We built a lot of functionality into your Page Block Library to give you a lot of variety in how you build your site. So here is a list (provided by our developer and designer) of specific CSS and the block that class pertains to. 

Imported Classes

If you see CSS that starts with “imported-oms-[block type]“, that block has been imported from Gutenberg and must be deleted/replaced with a new Elementor block. (The CSS will override other CSS entered.)

Unique Classes

Add drop shadow to a few different elements. This is intended for cards, for a whole row, for widgets that appear in some “sidebar” layouts, and for accordion/toggles

Class Names that get applied to the row (use one at a time):

  • .depth–cards
  • .depth–row
  • .depth–sidebar-widget
  • .depth–accordions


Add structure to Stats Page Block with divider lines. This is intended for the Stats Page Block only. 

Class Name that gets applied to the row:

  • .oms-divider

Add rounded corners to an image/text block. 

Class Name that gets applied to the image:

  • rounded


Apply Gradient to Block

Block Section background: The Elementor UI doesn’t allow for more than two colors in a background gradient, Gradient 1 (Blue/Green) consists of more than 2 colors, for this reason, we are using classes instead of the Elementor UI.

Class Names that get applied to the section (use one at a time):

  • .oms-bg-gradient–gradient-1
    This is the Cobalt > Teal > Lime
  • .oms-bg-gradient–gradient-2
    This is the Navy > Cobalt


Apply texture to Page Block Section background

The Elementor UI allows for background images and overlays, but we wanted a little more sophistication, so we are using classes for “textured” page blocks

Class Names that get applied to the section (use both classes from the 3 options below, but only use 1 option at a time):

  • .oms-bg-media .oms-bg-media–white
  • .oms-bg-media .oms-bg-media–light-gray
  • .oms-bg-media .oms-bg-media–navy


Additional Button Modifiers

We created a third button type. We have not 100% settled on the color yet. I anticipate some feedback from the client

When applying classes for buttons, try to only use one of the following:

  • .btn-primary
  • .btn-secondary
  • .btn-tertiary

When applying the .btn-larger class, you can pair that class with any of the 3 listed above

Class Names that are available in the Formats dropdown::

  • .btn-tertiary
  • .btn-larger

Note: Do not change the background color of imported blocks. Instead, bring in a new block and copy/paste the content in. Then you can change the background color using the instructions below. 

To change the color of a page block, here are the steps you take once you’re in the Elementor editor: 

  1. Using your “Navigation” or “Structure” popup, select the top most container for the block you’ve selected. The container should be named the same as the block, for example “Accordion (White)” 
  2. The left sidebar will show the Container editor and three tabs. Toggle to the second tab, Style.
  3. The first option will be your background color and image selector. Find “Color” and select the globe (“default”) icon to see global colors our developer has saved to your site. A settings interface showing background options with "Normal" selected, background type set to "Default," and color and image options available.
  4. Choose the color you’d like to use from the options labeled “BG Color” 
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the same tab and expand the “Text Settings”. Select the correct color to match your new background color. “Default” = black text on light background. “Light” = white text on dark background.
  6. Save your changes.