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Kokkieh – thank you. That’s very helpful
If you go to the Mentors Profiles page on the OLLI Mentors site, you’ll see four names. Each is linked to another page that has a profile (resume). I dropped a Word doc (profile) on each of those four pages.
That reminds me. Each of the four Word docs had a photo or mugshot on the Word doc. But these mugshots did not survuse this process and I’ve had to add the four photos later back into each page. Why would that be?
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If I look at, for example, https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/roy-cook/, there is no link to a Word Document on that page. Do you perhaps mean that you copy-pasted that content from a Word document? Copy-pasting something is not the same as linking to it.
Each of the four Word docs had a photo or mugshot on the Word doc. But these mugshots did not survuse this process and I’ve had to add the four photos later back into each page.
If you copy-pasted from Word, then the images wouldn’t have been included. Word documents work completely differently from your site’s page editor. When you add an image to a Word doc, the image is embedded and becomes part of the actual document. Websites don’t work that way. In websites you need to first host the image somewhere. In our case, in the media library. Then when you insert the image into the post you’re actually inserting a link to the image in the library, which allows the page/post to display the image.
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kokkieh – you have a lot of patience in that you’re dealing with a complete neophyte. You figured out what I meant. I copy-pasted a Word doc of a Profile that had a photo on it onto a blank page that I created on my site. I thought that was the only way that I could add this profile to a page that could be linked to a name on the Mentors Profiles page.
So I thought that I was stuck with a two step process: copy-paste the Word doc text onto a WordPress page within my site. Then add the photo later to the profile.
Thus is where I first got that information on https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/media-icons/:
“Lastly, you can also create download links to documents (PDF, Microsoft Word document, etc.). When inserting a document into your page or post, a clickable link will automatically be generated.”
I thought that I was doing it correctly.
So I understand about the photos hosted in the Media Library. What I don’t understand is: is there any way to insert the Word doc with an imbedded photo into my site in one step? For example, can I convert it to a PDF and then bring the PDF profile onto my site. I thought that I read that I cannot do that.
My issue is as follows: I need to have 50-100 one-page profiles (resumes) on my site, each one linked to a name listed on the Mentors Profiles page so someone looking at that page can select any one of these 50-100 mentors’ names and read his or her profile. Everything else on the site is of little importance. So how would you best do that in a reasonably simple way?
Thank you for your patience and guidance.
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What I don’t understand is: is there any way to insert the Word doc with an imbedded photo into my site in one step?
That is not possible. You will always need to add the image in afterwards.
My issue is as follows: I need to have 50-100 one-page profiles (resumes) on my site, each one linked to a name listed on the Mentors Profiles page so someone looking at that page can select any one of these 50-100 mentors’ names and read his or her profile. Everything else on the site is of little importance. So how would you best do that in a reasonably simple way?
What you’re currently doing is the simplest option: Copy your Word text into a new page, and then add the image.
The download links option you reference is if you upload the word doc to your media library like an image. When you then instert it into the page from the library, it will create a link that will allow people to download the document, but it WON’T show the text of the document on the page.
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kokkieh – well, you’ve explained everything. I did the Media Library thing first and couldn’t understand why I could see the profile’s text but no one else could. That was a little frustrating. People telling me that they got a download screen. People giving me all kinds of reasons such as it had something to do with my having Admin privileges. We all knew nothing, perhaps less than nothing.
I thought this would be easy. Heck I started another site in WordPress, supporting a class that I taught about how to find one’s personal core values. Had no problems with it but also had no pictures, as I recall.
At any rate, thank you very much for your help. For that, I’ll hope that you don’t see a flood this year in South Africa. Yes, I did a little research when my wife asked what kind if a handle was kokkieh. I had no answer. Still don’t.
You’ve helped put together a site which, over the next year or two, should help several hundred college students find mentors who are retired but anxious to help. So you haven’t just helped some idiot in Northern California who can’t or won’t read directions.
But don’t go away, someone this helpless will always have more questions and maybe soon.
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Yes, I did a little research when my wife asked what kind if a handle was kokkieh. I had no answer. Still don’t.
Haha. Family nickname to which I added my initial, as when I registered my WordPress.com account “kokkie” was already taken :)
You’ve helped put together a site which, over the next year or two, should help several hundred college students find mentors who are retired but anxious to help. So you haven’t just helped some idiot in Northern California who can’t or won’t read directions.
That’s an excellent goal. Good luck with that. And I’m happy to help, so please don’t hesitate if you have any more questions.
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kokkieh – well old friend, it’s seems like it’s been, well, minutes since we’ve last communicated. I’m rocking and rolling here thanks to you but now may have a series of tiny questions. So here’s one to get the ball rolling:
when I copy-paste text onto a page, I continually have to turn off the two Sharing options since I want a clean page and don’t want blogging. Is there any way to have a default page without these two little rascals?
Sharing Buttons & Likes –
Show Sharing Buttons
Show Like ButtonIf so, I am more than eternally thankful since I was eternally thankful last time.
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Long time no see :D
Go to My Site ->Sharing ->Buttons
On that page you can remove buttons or control where they are displayed (the check boxes under Options at the bottom), and also disable the Like and Reblog buttons by default. Then it should be disabled on every new post or page you create, though you can still switch it on on a per-page basis.
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kohhieh – you’ve done it again. Another thing to be thankful for tomorrow. Thanks much. Now I’m looking for other things that I don’t like on the site in order to lay them before you for correction.
By the way, I added a Library link that has 12 of the best articles I’ve read on success in career and life. Might take a peek. Should be good reading for those starting out (college students). I’m doing a lot of mentoring work with these folks. Very rewarding, especially for those like me, with an entrepreneurial bent.
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kokkieh – I think I’ll ratchet up the difficulty of my questions. They’re too easy for you.
Is there a way to send web articles directly into my WordPress site like I do with Evernote? That eliminates the open page-copy-paste steps.
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kokkieh – is there any way to format the distance between the lines? On the Contact page, I’d to eliminate the space between Roy Cook & (email visible only to moderators and staff). I could see no way to do that.
Contact
Roy Cook(email visible only to moderators and staff)
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Is there a way to send web articles directly into my WordPress site like I do with Evernote? That eliminates the open page-copy-paste steps.
You can try the Press This option. It’s a bookmarklet that you need to save in your browser bookmarks. Then you highlight text on a site, click the bookmarklet, and it creates a new post with that text and a link to the source. Or that’s how it should work. I haven’t used it in ages :)
Another option is Post by Email. There you copy-paste the text into your email client instead of the editor and send it to your site via a secret email address. In this case any copy-pasted images should automatically be uploaded to the media library, unlike if you copy directly to the editor.
is there any way to format the distance between the lines? On the Contact page, I’d to eliminate the space between
That’s the normal paragraph spacing. To prevent it you need to insert a line break instead, like pressing Cmd-Return in Word. You do that by editing the page in the HTML view:
Roy Cook </br>email addressHowever, publishing your email address on your site is not a good idea, unless you really want a thousand spam messages in your inbox every day :)
Please consider using a contact form instead:
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kokkieh –
1. Where do I get the secret email address?2. I was going to have all 40 current mentors have their email address sitting there unprotected! Not too smart. So now I should have all of them do a contact form.
3. What about the wisdom of having each of them include their home phone number?
4. Also, I was not going to have a sign-in required. Is there any reason to require a sign-in with a password. If I do that, is it still wise to also use a contact form?
5. Does upgrading to premium offer any security elements to my site?
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hokkieh – when adding (creating) a new page, what does the “top level” on/off button under Page Attributes do? Is that called a radio button?
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hokkieh – I just saw this as I’m reading more about WordPress:
You can also hide widgets based on the current page. For example, if you don’t want the Archives widget to appear on search results pages, choose “Hide” and “Page is Search Results.”
I note that “Archives” appears on all my pages. Why would I need that to be visible?
Also, I assume that “My Admin” under “Meta” is essential. Right? What is it?
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1. Where do I get the secret email address?
As the instructions say, you need to go to My Blogs in the WP-Admin dashboard:
https://olliroy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs
2. I was going to have all 40 current mentors have their email address sitting there unprotected! Not too smart. So now I should have all of them do a contact form.
You can add a contact form to each of their pages, yes, which will send submissions to their personal email addresses, provided you set the form up that way. The instructions explain how.
3. What about the wisdom of having each of them include their home phone number?
That’s really up to you and them. If they’re fine with their phone numbers appearing on the site it’s their call, but keep in mind that ANYONE with an internet connection will be able to see them.
4. Also, I was not going to have a sign-in required. Is there any reason to require a sign-in with a password. If I do that, is it still wise to also use a contact form?
We don’t offer the option of hiding a site behind a login on WordPress.com. We only have the Private Site option. There only people you specifically invite can see the site, and they need to have their own WordPress.com accounts to access it. Or you can password protect individual posts and pages.
5. Does upgrading to premium offer any security elements to my site?
All sites on WordPress.com have the same security features, regardless of whether it’s free or upgraded.
when adding (creating) a new page, what does the “top level” on/off button under Page Attributes do? Is that called a radio button?
All sites are top-level by default. That means their URL will be site/page and they’ll appear in the main menu. The circle with an option next to it is a radio button. If you select a page there, the current page will become a child of that page, so the page’s URL will be site/parent-page/child-page and the page link will appear in a drop down menu under the main menu.
So, for example, you can make the individual mentor pages children of the main Mentors page, and they’ll be listed in a drop-down menu under the Mentors item in the main menu.
If you use a custom menu you control this from the menu settings, not from the page editor.
I note that “Archives” appears on all my pages. Why would I need that to be visible?
Also, I assume that “My Admin” under “Meta” is essential. Right? What is it?
Widgets are entirely up to what you want to be on your site. If you want a widget, add it. If you don’t, remove it. The meta widget isn’t even available on WordPress.com any more, except for sites that already had it added when we removed it. You don’t really need it, as you can use the action bar bottom-right to log into your site instead.
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hokkieh- thank you so much. Just your tip on protecting our emails is invaluable and probably saved me from being lynched!
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hokkieh –
Please consider using a contact form instead:
Contact FormIs there any way that a response from the Contact Form can go to the email listed on the form rather than to me, the registered site owner (that’s where I read that all responses are directed)? Otherwise, I’m going to get a ton if responses that I’ll have to re-direct.
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hokkieh – I inserted a contact form onto my Contact page and deleted my the text “Roy Cook, (email visible only to moderators and staff)” that was visible previously. But now the form shows Name: olliroy & Email: (email visible only to moderators and staff). Can the name be Roy Cook rather than olliroy?
Also, if I have 50 profiles pages, there will be 50 contact forms, one on each if the profile pages, allowing the person who is looking for a mentor to respond on the profile page of the desired mentor. How do I get the name & email of the responder plus the name of the mentor on the profile page that the responder is reading? Do I have to ask for this info in text that I add outside this form or can I ask for this inside the form?
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kokkieh – to make this easier for me, can I add two more administrators so that they can create some if the 50 mentor pages and add the 50 contact forms, etc.?
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