Londonderry YSA Blogger

Welcome to your calling as a ward technology specialist! As part of your calling, you will be managing the Londonderry YSA ward website. The ward website is a place where any ward members can go to find information about ward activities.

This is a repository of files and information that will be helpful to you in your calling as you serve to keep the website up to date with the latest announcements and information about the sacrament program. Most of the files here are backup files in case something goes wrong, you'll be able to restore the website to it's former glory.

Weekly maintenance

As part of your calling, there are two pages of the website you'll need to keep up to date. You should update those pages after the ward council reviews the announcements and sacrament program during ward council on Sunday morning and before sacrament meeting.

You should have access to a "Londerry YSA Ward Program" Google document that the ward council manages. If you don't have access, ask a member of the bishopric for access to that document. The ward council will typically add announcements to the Google document throughout the week and then review it during ward council on Sunday.

You should also have access to the Blogger website. Blogger is a blogging platform hosted by Google. If you don't have access, ask a member of the bishopric for access as an admin.

When copy/pasting information from the Google document to the Blogger editor, it is highly recommended to use ctrl shift v (or cmd shift v on MacOS) to paste into the Blogger editor. This will paste without formatting, so any formatting from the Google document will be ignored in favor of the Blogger formatting, ensuring that the website looks nice.

Announcements page

The announcements page has all the announcements for the upcoming week(s).

To update the announcements page:

1. Navigate to the Blogger website.
2. Click on the New Post button on the left sidebar.
   • If the New Post button is not visible, click on the Posts link in the left sidebar.
3. Set the title of the post to be the week range, starting on Sunday.
   • Example: "June 19th - 25th" if Sunday was June 19th.
4. Copy and paste the announcements from the "Londonderry YSA Ward Program" to the post.
5. Click the Publish button in the top right corner when you are done.

Sacrament program page

The sacrament program page has information about the sacrament program.

To update the sacrament program page:

1. Navigate to the Blogger website.
2. Click on the Pages link on the left sidebar.
3. Click on the "Sacrament Meeting" page.
4. Copy and paste the program information from the "Londonderry YSA Ward Program" to the post.
5. Click the Update button in the top right corner when you are done.

Files in this repository

favicon.png

This is the favicon for the Blogger website. You can update the favicon under settings on Blogger.

program-template.html

This is the template for the sacrament program page.

qr-code.png

This is the QR code that is on this page.

qr-code-for-sacrament-program.docx

This is a Word document that you can download and then print out to post on the doors of the chapel.

theme.xml

This is the Blogger theme. I took the Soho theme and made some modifications to it to make it look nicer. You can look at the history of changes that have been made here.

Instructions on how to restore the theme from backup are here.

FAQ

When I paste text into the Blogger editor, the formatting looks weird. How do I avoid this?

1. Copy the text using ctrl c (or cmd c on MacOS). It is recommended to copy as little information as possible.
2. Paste the text using ctrl shift v (or cmd shift v on MacOS). This will paste without formatting.

How do I schedule out announcements in advance?

1. Follow steps 1-4 under announcements.
2. Click Published On on the right sidebar.
3. Select the date and time you would like the announcement to be posted on.
4. Click the Publish button in the top right corner.

I've accidently messed up the theme. How do I revert back to what it was?

1. Download the theme.xml file from this repository.
   • If you can't download the file, then you can copy the text from here and then create a new .xml file and paste the text into that file using a text editor.
2. Navigate to the Blogger website.
3. Click on the Theme link in the left sidebar.
4. Click the dropdown next to the Customize button.
5. Click Restore.
6. Click Upload and upload the theme.xml file you downloaded in step 1.

There's too many announcements (posts) on the homepage, how do I fix it?

1. Go to Layout > Page Body > Blog Posts.
2. Set number of pages on main page to 1.

How do I generate a new QR code?

You shouldn't need to do this unless you want to change which url you want to QR code to take people to.

1. Look up a "QR code generator".
   • This is the one I used https://www.qr-code-generator.com/.
2. Paste the url of the page you want the QR code to be for.
3. Download the file (png or jpeg is easiest).
4. Navigate to the Blogger website.
5. Go to Pages > QR Code.
6. Insert the new QR code image into the document. Remove the old QR code image.
7. Click Update to save your changes.