Homepage spotlights & images

Spotlight & photo rotation

News spotlight links should be changed once a week (or as soon as timely stories are obsolete), along with the corresponding image for the news section on the left.

The upper right photo should be changed every 1-2 months.

To change spotlights & photos

1. Log into test site: http://libraries-test.mit.edu/wp-admin
2. Hover on "Pages" on left, and click "Tree View"
3. Click on the page for "Home"
   1. For spotlight links:
      1. Scroll down to find fields for News 1, 2, & 3.
      2. Enter blog title, and feel free to shorten to make it look good & read well on the homepage.
      3. Enter link to the blog title. Links should be in this format: /news/ask-chat/11876/ (so don't bother including the "http://libraries.mit.edu" and just start with the slash).
   2. For images:
      1. Scroll down to find fields for "photo" & "news photo."
      2. Delete the current photo (with the red x), and upload an new image or add an existing one with the exact size specified in the fields.
      3. For the news photo on the left, always link to the related news blog story. Links should be in this format: /news/ask-chat/11876/ (so don't bother including the "http://libraries.mit.edu" and just start with the slash).
      4. For the upper right photo, consider whether you should link the photo or not.  If there's no added value for the user, don't specify a link.
      5. If you need to add a new image, make sure you add an image title that makes sense, & use alt tags for the image!
4. Hit the "update" button.
5. After you look at the updated test page and everything looks good, make the exact same changes to the live site by logging into http://libraries.mit.edu/wp-admin and following the same steps.