{"id":299,"date":"2017-07-04T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:05:58","slug":"editors-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/resources\/editors-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detailed guidance for editors on the mechanics and protocol for creating a new post. To just send us a contribution, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Choosing a topic<\/h3>\n<p>Bear in mind<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Each post should have some kind of message for the practice of Medicine.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/resources\/submitting-posts\/\">Contributors Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our intent and principles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/about\/\">About<\/a> page<\/li>\n<li>Gaps needing filled &#8211; specialties needing better coverage<\/li>\n<li>That we aim to feature a range of art forms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s always good to discuss with others on the editorial team.<\/p>\n<h3>Editing, step by step<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in at the foot of the right hand column<\/li>\n<li>You will be taken to &#8216;Dashboard&#8217; where you can see pages and posts, old and new<\/li>\n<li>Create a new <strong>Post<\/strong> (not page)<\/li>\n<li>Save regularly by clicking on Save Draft at the top right. Don&#8217;t click on Publish till everything is final &#8211; see foot of page. (But if you accidentally publish, it is possible to Hide posts till they are ready.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The editor there is a cut-down word processor. Note that pasting from Word will not preserve much formatting, and can sometimes be problematic. &#8216;Paste as Text&#8217; is a useful command in the text editor&#8217;s menu bar.<\/p>\n<h4>Title<\/h4>\n<p>Catchy, not misleading. Forms the url, but the title itself can be changed later.<\/p>\n<h4>Subtitle<\/h4>\n<p>Put this in <strong>Bold<\/strong> on the first line. A subheading is not compulsory, but if you have one: put in punctuation if you want, and end with a full stop and a space after it, because this affects how it looks in the clip on the front page. For example in the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-steel-windpipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Steel Windpipe<\/a>, the subheading is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A dying child in rural Russia in 1916, by Mikhail Bulghakov.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Item\/ quote<\/h4>\n<p>This may be a picture, text, embedded video. The aim of textual extracts is to give the reader some of the experience of reading it, the flavour. And point to where to get more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If quoting text, highlight and use the &#8221; (Blockquote) button &#8211; it will then show in a grey box preceded by a quotation mark.<\/li>\n<li>For video, audio, etc, see &#8216;Additional images&#8217; below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Standard headings<\/h4>\n<p>Use <strong>Heading 3<\/strong> for these (see the box with &#8220;Paragraph&#8221; in it, different heading levels are an option there). Headings should be applied to plain text, not bold or Italic. Note that the &#8216;Heading&#8217; formatting affects the whole paragraph around the cursor, whether or not you&#8217;ve highlighted any text. That&#8217;s unlike the Bold and Italic formats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Commentary<\/strong> &#8211; usually up to 100-200 words. Bear in mind that the audience is not expected to be well versed in medical humanities, or in humanities in general.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further info<\/strong> &#8211; Concise and bulleted info to include: more from the same book\/same artist; commentaries by others; further info about the creator. Wikipedia links often good here. [<em>Don&#8217;t like the Wikipedia info? Edit it!<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributed by<\/strong> &#8211; Name and (if desired) who\/what they are (Professor of Medical Ethics, Aberystwyth; Medical student, Aberdeen)<\/li>\n<li><strong>More like this<\/strong> &#8211; put this on the last line with usually nothing beneath it. Tags\/ specialties are inserted automatically below &#8211; if you&#8217;ve set these; see on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Featured image<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>All posts must have a good &#8216;Featured image&#8217;.\u00a0 Add at the bottom right; you will probably have to scroll down to see that.<\/li>\n<li>Usually you&#8217;ll want to upload a new image. It&#8217;s quite easy in WordPress, which compresses them automatically.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure you have permission to use any image (or anything else you&#8217;re putting up).\u00a0 Have you seen <a href=\"https:\/\/ccsearch.creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCsearch<\/a> from Creative Commons? It enables you to limit a search to reusable images. Try Google images, Flickr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Additional images, video, audio etc<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Additional images<\/strong> can be inserted in the text. For instance, a close-up or better view of a work of art, or a related image.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Video\/audio<\/strong> &#8211; embed video using &#8216;Add Media&#8217; &#8211; usually &#8216;from url&#8217; in the left hand menu.<\/li>\n<li>You can also paste in <strong>&#8217;embed&#8217; html<\/strong> &#8211; you are offered this in YouTube or Vimeo, for instance. It may give a better result. Audio players similarly.<br \/>\nTo do this, switch from &#8216;Visual&#8217; to &#8216;Text&#8217; at the top right, in the light grey frame to the editing area. This will show the page&#8217;s html coding. Find where you want it to appear, and paste it in on a new line. If inserting new lines, do that after the end of a phrase. Paragraphs end with &lt;\/p&gt; &#8211; so after that. Too complex? Ask!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Add categories and Tags<\/strong> &#8211; please use existing ones, and be very careful about adding new, to keep our terminology managable. We should discuss new ones from time to time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Categories<\/strong> = specialties. You can choose as many as you like<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tags<\/strong> &#8211; The nature of the content AND something about it &#8211; click on &#8216;Choose from the most used tags&#8217; to show existing tags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Before finally publishing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Show it to other editors for comment<\/li>\n<li>Continue to just &#8216;Save&#8217; until all is good and final. It will be saved as a draft post in the list of all posts.<\/li>\n<li>You can Preview at any time with the Preview button<\/li>\n<li>Hit the Publish button when all is final<\/li>\n<li>Check it looks good. You can make further changes still.<\/li>\n<li>You can also schedule posts to be published some time in the future. After scheduling a date and time, click on Publish (it will be delayed till the date arrives).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>After publishing<\/h4>\n<p>It is possible, and OK, to edit a post &#8211; for example to add new info links. Click on Edit, make your changes, then click the Update button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detailed guidance for editors on the mechanics and protocol for creating a new post. 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