Make Homepage easier to edit

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WordPress child theme for INN.org. Requires Largo parent theme (https://github.com/INN/largo)

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Make Homepage easier to edit #125

Open benlk opened 4 years ago

benlk commented 4 years ago

[x] use the Customizer so the changeset can be scheduled
- https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/customize-api/
- https://wpsmackdown.com/schedule-wordpress-theme-changes-customizer/
[x] editable image, alt text, photo credit
[x] editable headline
[x] editable blurb
[x] editable button text
[x] editable link

benlk commented 4 years ago

dev time: 4-8h? project management time: ? testing: 1h docs and training: 2-4h

Assumptions:

no style or layout changes
just creating controls that fill in existing variables in https://github.com/INN/inn/blob/92015727927463627355e88e88774a44e7ac76b9/homepages/templates/inn.php#L2-L28

benlk commented 4 years ago

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Without us in the loop, it's theoretically possible that the inn.org homepage may be updated to have no image. How should the homepage display with no image set?

benlk commented 4 years ago

Largo's built-in media credit function includes not only a field for the photographer and their organization, but also the URL for the media credit.

Up until now, the media credit didn't have a link.

Should we keep it blue, or should it go back to white?

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And do we want to make it clearer that this is a photo credit, perhaps by adding a little camera like the Texas Tribune does in their image captions? Here's how it would look on inn.org:

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Here's how it looks on the Texas Tribune:

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