Some links are not working
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kokkieh – somehow we’ve eliminated two of our mentor profiles. I can see that the pages and mugshot images are still there in behind the scenes in Page Attributes and Media Library. Is there a shortcut to bringing the two finished profile pages back i.e., Trash)? If not, what are the steps to take to get the created pages back prior to adding the mugshot and Contact card?
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Kokkieh – I see them both in pages > published but do not know how to get them back on the Mentors Profiles page of the site.
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Hello Roy,
Your Mentors Profiles page only contains regular links to your pages. So to add additional page links to that main page, you need to edit the page and add the links in manually.
Go to Pages, find your Mentors Profiles page and edit it.
Type in the names of the mentor you wish to add, highlight it, and click the link button. Then paste in the link to that specific mentor’s page.
Repeat with each mentor you wish to add to the list, and update the page.
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regular links
Kokkieh – thank you, that did it but what are regular links? I’ve been adding new mentors regularly and have 10 now. After adding the last two, everything looked good. Then they disappeared after I did some editing on that page. Perhaps I did something that broke the two links.
Can you think of another reason that two would disappear from the Mentors Profiles page after they were added and the page was updated?
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Looking at the revision history of the page, it appears that on the 5th you added two new names and deleted two old ones at the same time. So most likely you had the existing names highlighted when you typed in the new names, which would have over-written them.
By “regular links” I just mean plain hyperlinks that were added in the way I described above, and not menu items or a shortcode that can add links to a page automatically.
And no, there’s no option to automatically make pages for new mentors appear on that page :)
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kokkieh – I just noticed that the path to my Mentor Profiles tab is now https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/insu-hyams/mentors-profiles/. I have no idea how that happened. It used to be https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/mentors-profiles/. Insu is one of our mentors. So how do I change the current path to the old one? I’m reluctant to just go in and deter her name from the path and I want to make certain that I do this correctly.
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It looks like you’ve set that page as a child page of the insu-hyams page.
Edit the Mentors Profiles page, and under Page Attributes, make sure you have No Parent selected as the parent page. Then update the page.
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Kokkieh – how can I get rid of extra lines on a profile page after section headings when the person is using bullet points (see Kathy Oscamou). No other mentor profiles used bullet points nor had extra lines after the section headings so I think those two points tie together. I tried by deleting
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For this you’ll need to add some HTML, what we call a non-breaking space.
Edit the page and switch to the HTML editor. Create a new line under the heading, and inside it add:
& nbsp; (without the space)
That collection of characters, called an HTML entity, tells your browser to leave a blank line there at all times. You can use the same method if you want to add extra spacing on the other mentor pages as well.
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& nbsp; (without the space)
Does this mean that I include “(without the space)” or is this just the explanation?
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tells your browser to leave a blank line there at all times.
But that’s what I don’t want to do. I’m confused. I want to eliminate spaces between the heading of each section and text that follows.
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I want to eliminate spaces between the heading of each section and text that follows.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I can’t see any way to eliminate the spaces. Adding the bulleted list causes certain styling rules to apply to the page, and I don’t see a way to override those.
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Hokkieh – is there a way to have 2 columns of names (links to profile pages) in my OLLI Mentors page instead of one. I will have about 42 total mentors and it would scan better to have 2 rather than 1 column.
Also, one editor made a profile private on a page. It stated “Private:Xxx Xxxxx”, the x’s representing a profile name. How could that have happened?
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is there a way to have 2 columns of names
You can do this, yes, but it will mean learning some more HTML :)
You can see here for instructions:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#columns
Also, one editor made a profile private on a page. It stated “Private:Xxx Xxxxx”, the x’s representing a profile name. How could that have happened?
All posts and pages have an option to set it to private. If you set a page to private, only the author and other admins on the site can see it. You should be able to edit the page and set it to public again.
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Kokkieh –
1. Can I restrict the search box to opthe OLLI Profiles page so that a search for managers doesn’t find profiles and Library articles? I only want the profiles.
2. Can I place a large photo on the OLLI Profiles page so that the 30 mentors name are seen over the top of the photo?
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1. Can I restrict the search box to opthe OLLI Profiles page so that a search for managers doesn’t find profiles and Library articles? I only want the profiles.
That’s not possible, no. The Search feature will search your entire site, every time.
2. Can I place a large photo on the OLLI Profiles page so that the 30 mentors name are seen over the top of the photo?
Do you mean like a background photo on the page? It’s possible using HTML.
First, upload the image to the media library, and copy the image URL after it’s uploaded.
Then add this line of html at the very top of the list:
<div style="display:block; background: #CEB88B url('https://ollimentors.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/rick.png') no-repeat; background-size: cover; background-position: center; padding-left: 25px;">(I used the URL of an image already in your library for illustration. Just replace it with the actual URL)
It’s good to set a fallback color for cases where the image perhaps doesn’t load, especially if your text color over the image won’t be clear if shown against a white background. But you can leave the color out if you prefer. Just delete #CEB88B if you don’t want any fallback color, or else substitute that with the color code for the fallback color you want.
And at the very end of the list, close the div tag with:
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Kokkieh – because of you, our site is looking good. We do have a columns problem. We have three columns (10 each) in alpha sequence. From time to time we will add a new one or subtract one.
Let’s say we want to add one. We must make a space on the HTML page, we make a space and type in the new name so that the entire list is still in alpha sequence. Then switch to the Visual page to link the new name to a profile page. This will increase, say, the first column by one, bringing it to 11. We then have to move the 11th name from column 1 to column 2, etc. This seems to ball up the column formula.
So should I assume that adding or subtracting mentors in columns 1 of 2 are not worth the trouble of keeping all mentors in columns?
Here’s the test page we’ve been playing with prior to making changes on the main site: https://wordpress.com/page/ollimentors.wordpress.com/1462.
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Adding new mentors in the first two columns will require you to manually shift down the rest of the list, yes. This is a good example of how using HTML differs from the rich text format used in word processors – the latter can take care of this for you automatically.
There is another way you can use to do it automatically, though it’s a bit more complicated. First, convert your links into a bulleted list. Then you can add some inline CSS to each line in the list, and the list will automatically arrange itself into columns:
<li style="width: 30%; display: inline-block; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px; margin: 0 -2px;"><a href="https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/jack-ayer/" target="_blank">Jack Ayer</a></li>This is of course much easier using custom CSS, but as you’re on the free plan you don’t have that option. The inline CSS will have the same overall effect, though.
Also note that you won’t see the effect of this code if you look at the visual editor. But you will see it if you view a preview of the page.
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