Alright dog. Welcome to the club. Here’s the run-down of the 3.0 website.

First off, it’s a little more complicated than before. That’s ok. You’re a smart cookie, you’ll figure it out.

Flow

There’s three things we control on the front page: regular posts, the featured post, and the asides. Here’s how they work.

Regular Posts

Simple enough. Click Add New post, and it’ll go to the main column. Also, you can add multi-page articles now, using !–nextpage– in anglebrackets.

Post front page banner

In order to control the main banner image, you have to:

Create a 175px by 470px image.
Upload it via the FTP.
Add a Custom Field to your post, latest_home_img, with the filename of the file you uploaded.

Of note

Ensure you have at least one image in your post, or it will be without a thumbnail.
There is a bug where if you update a post to add an image after the fact, the thumbnail is oversized. Avoid this.

Featured Post

This is a regular post, but is the most recent one in the category “Featured”. Good posts to feature are the most recent investigative ones/ones that are getting a lot of traffic. During lulls, pull out posts from the archives and throw them here.

Asides

Small snippit posts. Text and link only. Use an aside when you want to say something more official than twitter, but smaller than a real post. Included: documents that just got out, small updates to issues, breaking statements not worthy of full posts.

Organizing

Categories

There are seven categories. Two are special, five are traditional. The two special categories are:

Featured: The most recent post in this category gets shoved into the featured box. Try to keep only one post in this category.
Asides: All posts in this category show up in the asides column. You can also throw tweets up this way by including #aside in it (from your personal, or from ubcinsiders).

Every post should only belong to one of the following categories. The one exception is elections:

Elections: Posts that deal with candidates, referenda, or elections administration. * Only double-category things with elections if it can stand as either one on its own. Ask yourself: is this only noteworthy because of elections? If so, categorize it elections alone. If not, consider a double-category.
Editorial: Posts that are mostly opinion. Not so much referencing/sourcing/research. Just thoughts.
Investigative: Posts that are heavy on research. Can contain opinion. A good question to ask is: “would this be said if I didn’t say it right now?”
Features: Neat gimmicks. Video, audio, interviews, ‘series’.
News: Everything else goes here. This is the default bin. Also included are meeting summaries and agendas.

Tags

The things we tag are: Organizations, Properties of Posts, Named Historical Events, and Beer.

Organizations

Organizations include: Faculties, Senate, Board of Governors, VFM, Ubyssey, Athletics, Faculty Association, etc.
We do not tag undergraduate societies–we instead tag the faculties they belong to. Graduate Studies is “Grads”.

“SUS” – BAD
“Science” – GOOD

Properties of Posts

“Guest Post”/”name of guest” – Self explanatory.
“Multimedia” – Tags with video, audio, photo.
“Navel Gazing” – Posts about us/Insiders, as well as metaposts.

Named historical events

If an event is important enough to have a name, it gets tagged with it.
Examples: “Bon Fire”, “Lougheed Affair”, “2010 Electoral Fraud”, “New SUB”, “University Boulevard”, etc.

Beer

If a post contains a reference to beer. Tag it with “Beer”.

Style

Include at least one image inline in your post. Also, if you want to have a big right-align text box for highlighting quotes, use the code tag.

FTP

FTP Username: editor@ubcinsiders.ca
Password: You know it.
FTP Server: ftp.ubcinsiders.ca
FTP Server Port: 21

An unsecure browser link for the lazy.

For clients, I like WinSCP on Windows. FireZilla is also good, and has a mac port.