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Introduction

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Content Structure

  • Pages – Used to create individual pages that reside outside of the News section. 
  • Posts – Used to create News section posts.
  • Content Modules – Used to populate content modules. Currently only the home page is using content modules.
  • FAQs – Used to create/edit the Admin Guide content.
  • Membership Works – External resource used to manage members and membership subscriptions.
  • Widgets – Widgets are content blocks that can be positioned in predefined areas (sidebar, header, footer, etc.).
  • Menus – Menus provide site navigation. 

Notable Plugins

  • Beaver Builder – A content layout builder. Currently, only used on the home page but is available when creating any post or page. 
  • Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress – Used to add social sharing buttons to pages and posts. 
  • FileBird – Used to add folder organization capabilities to WordPress’s defualt media manager.
  • Advanced Sidebar Menu Pro – Used to create sidebar menus as a widget.
  • Nav Menu Roles – Allows you to select a state in which a menu item is visible.
  • Advanced Custom Fields – Gives you advanced display settings from within widgets.
  • Duplicate Page – Allows you to duplicate pages and posts.
  • Disable Comments -Gives you a convenient way to globally disable comments of various content types.
  • Breadcrumb NavXT – Adds breadcrumb navigation via automatic techniques or hard-coded techniques. 
  • GA Google Analytics – Adds global GA tracking code along with advanced configuration options.
  • Open External Links in a New Window – Forces external links to be opened in a new window.
  • Reveal ID’s – Allows you to see page and post ID’s which is useful when you need to exclude widgets from certain areas.
  • Simple Custom Post Order – Allows you to rearrange posts and pages via drag-n-drop.
  • Quick and Easy FAQs – FAQ system used to manage the Admin Guide.
  • Smart Slider 3 Pro – Used to manage image slideshows.
  • Widget Disable – Allows you to disable backend admin widgets which is useful in reducing clutter.
  • Wordfence – Important security plugin. Adds firewall and blocking capabilities.
  • WP Rocket – Cache and optimization tool. Used to cache site content and increase both front-end and back-end speed.
  • WP Forms – Powerful form creation system.
  • WebMan plugins – Essential plugins for the template used on this site.

IMPORTANT: If your changes are not visible on the live site select WP Rocket > Clear cache from the top navigation bar in the admin area.