User Guide: Adding Activity Centre Badges

This shows how to add a new activity centre badge to the Scouts pages. 

There is one post (contains the actual information), and one page (for Scouts).
The post uses custom fields (read-page-scouts) to direct to the correct page.
The pages use custom fields (read-post-scouts) to pick up the correct post.

Scouts Activity centre badge

  1. Create a NextGen gallery (see different instructions)
  2.  Create New Page
    1. Title = the name of the badge that will be displayed on the page
    2. Permalink – add “-scouts” to the end of the permalink, e.g, climbing-badge-scouts
    3. Categories: 
      1. Scouts-badges
    4. Page Attributes:
      1. Parent = Scouts and young persons …..
      2. Template = individual-badges-scouts
      3. Featured image – which becomes the banner at he top of the page (dimensions height to be between 20-25% of the width)
    5. Custom Fields:
      1. lowther-gallery-id = the gallery number created in step 1 above
      2. lowther_post_order = the order amongst thee other scout badges where the new facility should appear (this custom field must be present)
      3. read-post-scouts: the slug of the corresponding post (that is created below) – this can be added later
    6. Save/publish
  3.  Create New post
    1. Title – the same as used in step 2.1 above
    2. Description : the full description of the badge. Note:the first couple of lines will be displayed in a small box on the Scouts page
    3. Categories:
      1. Scout-badges
    4. Custom Fields:
      1. lowther_post_order: same as 5.2 : the order amongst thee other scout badges where the new badge should appear (this custom field must be present)
      2. read-page-scouts: the slug from the new page at step 2
    5. Featured Image: add oblong featured image (height to be 68% of the width)
  4. update/publish