Gmedia is a plugin for WordPress websites. If you have a Gmedia gallery setup and you want to add a description for your images follow these steps.

Click on Gmedia Gallery in the sidebar.

Click on Albums.

Select the album you want to edit by click on the albums name.

Scroll down the page a bit until you get to the box with the images. Click the drop-down to the box that says Action and click Enter Edit Mode.

Here you can edit the title of all the images in the album by editing the Title box. It is recommended to have something here to explain the image.

For an additional description add text to the Description box. This is optional. The result below is what will be shown on the web page.

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Gmedia is  a plugin for WordPress websites. If you have a Gmedia gallery setup and you want to delete new images follow these steps.

Click on Gmedia Gallery in the sidebar.

Click on Gmedia Library.

If you have many images, you want to filter them. In order to find images in a particular album click on the filter button.

Select Albums from the drop down.

Select which album you would like to see images for. Click Show Selected.

Scroll down until you’ve found the image you want to delete. Click Delete beside the image. You will be asked to confirm your action. Click OK if you are sure you want to delete.

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Gmedia is  a plugin for WordPress websites. If you have a Gmedia gallery setup and you want to add new images follow these steps.

Click on Gmedia Gallery in the sidebar.

Click on Add/Import Files.

An upload box will then come up. Select which album the image is to go into under the Add to Album box.

Click on Add Files and navigate to the image on your computer that you want to add. If you want to add more than one file repeat this step. The button will now say 1 files queued click this to add more.
TIP: hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard to select more than one image.

When youÔÇÖve done selecting the images, click Start Upload. The images will automatically be added to the album and corresponding gallery.

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Sometimes you will start a post or page but it’s not ready for publishing. You will need to save this as a draft.

In the Publish box of your new post/page, click the Save Draft button to save your work but not publish it.

When you are ready to publish the post/page click Publish.

Removing a page temporarily

If you are working on a live page and you wish to remove it temporarily in order to edit it you need to change the status from published to draft.

Click Edit in the Publish box.

Select Draft from the drop down box and click OK.

Click Update to save changes.

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Have a page or post that needs deleting? Here’s how to do it.

Select Posts or Pages in the sidebar.

On the list of post/pages find the one you wish to delete. Click on the Bin option.

Alternatively, when you’re in edit mode of the post/page click Move to bin in the publish box.

Recovering a post or page which has been deleted

Select Posts or Pages in the sidebar.

Click Bin at the top above your post/page listings.

Find the post or page you deleted and click on Restore.

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It’s important to keep your website up to date to keep your visitors coming back. Here is an easy way to update your web page.

Select Posts or Pages in the sidebar.

On the list of post/pages find the one you wish to edit. Click on the edit option.

There are two styles of pages and the way that you edit them is different for both. If your page looks like the left, continue the steps. If your page looks like the right (with lots of boxes), jump to step 7.

Make sure the Visual tab is selected for easier editing.

Make any changes to the text.

If you wish to preview the changes before the page goes live, click the Preview Changes button. The page will open in another window for you to view.

Once you’re happy with the changes. Click the Update button. Your work will be saved and published to your website.

If your page is laid out into blocks, you need to edit the blocks separately. To edit a block hover your mouse over the block and when you see the word edit in the corner click it.

Make sure the Visual tab is selected for easier editing.

Make any changes to the text.

Click Done on the bottom right-hand corner.

Make any changes to the rest of the boxes in the same way. Once you’re happy with the changes click the Update button. Your work will be saved and published to your website.

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It’s important to keep your website up to date and current, so you may want to add new content. Here is how to add a new page to your site.

Click on Pages then Add New in the sidebar.

Add a title to your page, this will be part of your website address so keep this short. Then type your content of your page, donÔÇÖt forget to format it correctly with headings.

NOTE: The font here will look different to your website, but don’t worry when you view the page on your site it will use the correct font settings.

 Click preview to see see the page before you publish it. When you are happy with what you have done click Publish.

Add the page to a menu

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Once you have created a page or post in WordPress it gives you a suggested URL based on your title. You can change this at any time by doing the following.

 Open your page or post in WordPress to edit it.

 Click the Edit button next to your permalink or URL.

 Make any changes to your URL. You can not make changes to the base part of your URL which is your domain. This is fixed. It is simply the address of the page or post that your are editing here.

 Click OK once you have made your changes.

 Click on Update to save changes to your page/post.

10 tips on creating good URLs

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An alt tag is what you name an image for search engines to read. If an image could not be displayed visitors would see the alt tag instead. All images on your website should have something in the alt tag. This is how to set alt tags in images.

Click on Gmedia Gallery in the sidebar.

Click on Gmedia Library.

You can view the current alt tag for each photo on each image. To change the alt tag select the picture (it will turn blue).

Click on the Action button to enter the edit mode.

Edit the alt tag by changing the Title.

The changes will be automatically saved. Click on Gmedia Library to return to all the images.

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