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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
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- How to Edit/Create Resource posts
- How to Create Resource Hub Pages
- Events, News, and Team post type overview
- Changing Backgrounds on Blocks/Heros (Gradient and Background Image CSS)
- Changing Header/Footer on Marketing Landing Pages
- How to Access, Edit, and Change Conditions for your Alert Bar
- How to Change the Color of your Alert Bar
- How to Edit a Conditional Header/Footer
- How to Edit the Event Feed
Elementor Tutorials
- How to find and use the navigator tool in Elementor
- How to save and apply a page template
- How to copy and paste blocks using WordPress Elementor
- How to change & manually select posts in a feed loop
- How to Return from Elementor to the WordPress Backend
- How to update Yoast SEO fields in Elementor
- How to access background photos on Elementor Hero blocks
Other Helpful Articles
- How to remove a page from the sitemap in Elementor
- How to add & change a link in content and turn it into a button
- How to write title tags & meta descriptions on pages and posts
- How to publish a blog post
- How to create a redirect or shortcut URL in WordPress
- How to find a video file link in Vimeo
- How to hide a page in WordPress
- How to embed a YouTube video into a WYSIWYG text editor
- How to add title tag and meta description to archive pages via Yoast settings
Additional Notes About YOUR CMS
What CSS classes are used in the Main Nav menu?
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”.
What CSS classes are used on blocks?
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
How do I change the background color of a block?
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:
- 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)”
- The left sidebar will show the Container editor and three tabs. Toggle to the second tab, Style.
- 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.
- Choose the color you’d like to use from the options labeled “BG Color”
- 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.
- Save your changes.
