“Customizing menus”, this function will allow us to add additional contents to our menus and allow our visitors to fully see how much contents our site covers. To access “Customizing menus” first log into your WordPress account for AboutBoulder, then you should go to the front page of AboutBoulder. Once you are at our front page, you should be able to see the black toolbar at the very top of the page. Click on “Customize” on the black toolbar and you should see the new options pop up on the left side. Click “menus” and the new options should show you all of the menus. Choose and... Read More

“Listing Categories” are the potential categories, a business potentially can be categorized under our site. To create a new “Listing Category”, go to the left side of our wordpress page, where the tool kits are. Go down to “DirectoryToolbox” and move your cursor over it. Go right and move your cursor to the newly popped up options, click “Categories”. This will take you to a new page, go down to the very bottom, where it says “Add Category”. Type in the new category’s name under “Category Title”. After you have typed in the category’s name, type in a random category’s... Read More

Go to the left side of our wordpress page, where the tool kits are. Go down to “Appearance” and move your cursor over it. Go right and move your cursor to the newly popped up options, click “Widgets”. On the left side of the page, you will see all the different types of widgets. The widget types we most likely will be using are “ThemeToolBox – Recent Posts”, “DirectoryToolBox Listings”, “PublishToolBox – Multimedia Posts Slider”, and “PublishToolBox – Posts Slider”. On the right side of the page, you will see all the locations that you can put the widgets... Read More

When you finish editing your post, go to the right hand side of the post where it says “Multimedia Toolbox Options”. Under that section, check the box that says “Video Post”. After checking the box, new options will pop up under the original box. Ignore all the new options and simply click “Configure Multimedia Toolbox”.   That will lead you to a brand new page. Go down to the section where it says “Custom Options” then pick the voice you want to use for your audio post.(You can sample the different voices to pick your favorite one) After picking a voice for your audio post,... Read More

Here are the steps to write your first blog. First you will have to upload the pictures that you want to have on your blog and set as its featured image. Go to the left side of our wordpress page, where the tool kits are. Go down to “Media” and move your cursor over it. Go right and move your cursor to the newly popped up options, click “Add New”. In the middle of the new page, click on “Select files”, find the pictures you want to upload to our site and upload them! (PS: Don’t forget to read our image size policy if you haven’t read them.) Next, you will write your... Read More

Google is changing the way they are ranking websites on mobile devices. They are calling this “Mobilegeddon”.  If the website on the mobile device is not user friendly, the Google rankings go way down and you get penalized. This is why it is so important to have correctly sized photos on your posts on the OnTampa site. If the photos are not sized correctly, it can take a long time to load and Google does not like this at all. The new image standards should be: Inside posts / content / pages, please size images to 600px wide, at 72dpi. For featured images, the ones that will show up... Read More