In the Getting Started with Plinkit section, we focused on adding content to pages that had already been created, such as the Contact Us and Who We Are pages in the About Us section of your site. As you begin to expand your Plinkit Web site, you will undoubtedly want to create new pages and new folders for organizing your pages, files, and images. As your site grows and changes, you may also find yourself needing to move and reorder your pages, folders, and other content items.

The sections below demonstrate several of the most common site editing tasks, including creating a new page, creating a new folder, moving pages, and reordering content items.

Note: Although the examples in this section involve creating and moving pages and folders, you can use the same general procedures to create and manage most other types of content items.

Adding a New Page to Your Site

To add a new page:

     1.      Log in to Plinkit.

     2.      Navigate to the location in the site where you want the new page to be located.

In our example, we have clicked the About Us link in the navigation portlet so that we can add a page to the About Us section.

     3.      To better visualize your location, click the contents tab.

     4.      When you are satisfied that you are in the location where you want to add your new page, click the add item link on the green menu bar and then select page from the drop-down menu.

A blank Edit Page form is displayed on the edit tab.

     5.      In the Title field of the Edit Page form, enter the title for your new page.

     6.      In the Description box, enter a short description of your new page.

     7.      In the Body Text area of the Edit Page form, enter the main content for your page.

     8.      When you have finished drafting and formatting your page content, scroll to the bottom of the Edit Page form and click save to create your new page.

The main content area automatically switches to the view tab so that you can review your new page.

     9.      If the content looks acceptable in the view tab and you want to make the new page immediately available to the public, click the public draft state indicator and then select publish from the drop-down menu.

The new page now appears in the About Us section and is accessible to all Plinkit users.

Adding a New Folder to Your Site

As we learned earlier, folders are the basic containers used to store and organize the content in your Plinkit site. You can create folders anywhere in your site.

For this example, let’s assume that now we have created a topic about our Volunteer Librarian Program, we have decided that we want to create a new folder within the About Us folder where we can group information about how the community can become more active in our library.

The steps for creating a new folder are very similar to those for creating a new page:

     1.      Log in to Plinkit.

     2.      Navigate to the location in the site where you want the new folder to be located.

In our example, we have clicked the About Us link in the navigation portlet so that we can add a subfolder to the About Us section.

     3.      To better view visualize your location and all of the contents in that location, click the contents tab.

     4.      From the green menu bar, click add item (or add to folder) and then select folder from the drop-down menu.

A blank Edit Folder form is displayed on the edit tab.

     5.      In the Title field, enter a title for your new folder.

     6.      If desired, enter a short description of the information the folder will contain.

     7.      Click save.

The main content area automatically switches to the view tab so you can view your folder. If you have added your folder to another folder that is displayed in the navigation portlet, as we have, your new folder should now also be visible in the navigation portlet. The new folder appears in green because it is in the public draft state.

     8.      To publish your folder, click public draft on the green menu bar and then select publish from the drop-down menu.

The new folder is now accessible to all Plinkit users and no longer appears in green in the About Us section.

Moving Pages and Other Content Items

Let’s continue with our series of examples. We have just created a new folder called Opportunities for Involvement, and we want to move some of our existing pages into this folder. We can move pages one at a time using the actions menu, or we can use the buttons on the contents tab to move multiple items at once. We’ll demonstrate both methods.

Note: Although the examples in this section involve moving pages, you can use the same general procedure to move other content items.

To move one page at a time:

     1.      Log in to Plinkit.

     2.      Navigate to the page you want to move.

In our example, we want to move the Supporting Your Library page from the About Us folder into the Opportunities for Involvement subfolder, so we have clicked About Us and then Supporting Your Library.

     3.      On the green menu bar, click actions and select cut from the drop-down menu.

     4.      Navigate to the location to which you want to move the item.

In this example, we want to move the page into our new subfolder, so we have clicked About Us and then Opportunities for Involvement in the navigation portlet. The title in the view tab makes it clear we are in the correct location (the Opportunities for Involvement folder).

     5.      From the new location, click actions and select paste from the drop-down menu.

The view tab displays a confirmation message, and the page title and description appear in the list of contents shown in the default display format for the folder.

You can also use the contents tab to move pages and other content items. This is particularly useful when you need to move multiple items. The cut, copy paste, and delete actions available from the actions menu only allow you to work on one content item at a time, but your can perform these same actions on multiple items at one time from the contents tab. In the following example, we’ll use the contents tab to move two more pages into our new folder at once.

To move multiple content items at a time:

     1.      Log in to Plinkit.

     2.      Navigate to the folder containing the items you want to move and then click the contents tab to view all of the folder’s contents.

     3.      In the contents tab view, select the check boxes for the items you want to move and then click cut.

In this example, we have decided to move the Library Services page and the Our Volunteer Librarian Program page.

     4.      Navigate to the contents tab of the folder to which you are moving the items.

In our example, we clicked About Us, then Opportunities for Involvement, and then the contents tab.

     5.      Click paste.

A confirmation message indicates that the items have been pasted, and they are displayed in the list of contents for the destination folder.

Reordering Content Items

By default, Plinkit stores content items in the order in which they are created. You can use the contents tab to change the order of your site content into a more meaningful order.

Let’s return to our example. In the screen shot on the previous page, we can see that the subfolder we recently created is at the bottom of the About Us section in the navigation portlet. In the following example, we’ll move the folder so that it is displayed above the Library Policies folder.

To change the order of content items:

     1.      Log in to Plinkit.

     2.      Navigate to the contents tab for the folder in which you want to reorder content items.

In our example, we navigated to the About Us folder and then clicked the contents tab.

     3.      To move an item up or down in the contents list, simply click the up or down arrow for the appropriate item.

To move our new Opportunities for Involvement subfolder so that it appears ahead of the Library Policies subfolder, we simply click the up arrow on the line for the Opportunities for Involvement subfolder.

The new order is immediately reflected in two place: the contents tab list and the navigation portlet (if the items you are working with have not been excluded from navigation).