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Clear Your Cache

This tutorial is for you if you are having trouble seeing the changes that were made to your site. It inevitably happens, design changes are made, but you can’t see them. It’s ok! We are going to walk through the steps of clearing your cache.

Definition of CACHE: pronounced “cash”, a store of recently viewed website information – so that it can be quickly accessed at a later time. Caching information improves the load time of your website. 

We are going to walk you through clearing the cache on these browsers: Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. 

Determine which browser you are using and then follow the directions below. 

Chrome:

With your browser open. Navigate your mouse to the upper left hand corner of the browser. You’ll see three vertical dots to the left of the URL address bar.

  • Click on the three dots to open the Chrome Settings window.
  • Click on “More Tools” to open another window.
  • Click on “Clear Browsing Data”
  • Make sure to refresh your website page to force the browser to reload the page. 

Safari:

With your browser open. Navigate to the upper right hand corner of the browser. You’ll see the Safari menu above the URL address bar. 

  • Click on “Safari” to open the drop down menu. 
  • Click on “Preferences” to open a new window. 
  • Within the window, click on the tab labeled “Privacy”. 
  • Click on the button labeled, “Manage Website Data”. 
  • Then wait for all the sites to load in the opened window. 
  • Once the are loaded you’ll see a button in the bottom left side of that window labeled, “Remove All”. Click that Button. 
  • Then Click “Done” in the lower right hand side. 
  • Make sure to refresh your website page to force the browser to reload the page. 

Firefox: 

With your browser open Navigate to the menu at the top of the browser. You’ll see it above the URL address bar. 

  • Click on the menu item, “History”. 
  • Select the “Clear Recent History” option. 
  • Select “All Items” to clear the cache. 
  • Make sure to refresh your website page to force the browser to reload the page. 

Congrats! You should now be able to see all the beautiful new changes! 

Creating a Blog Post

Let’s Get Started Log into the Admin of your site. Need help remembering how to log in? Check out this post: How to Log In On the left side of your Screen Click on Posts in the Admin Menu. That will open the List of Blog Posts you’ve made. Creating a Blog Post Click on Add New, either below the Posts menu item on the left side of your screen or besides Posts toward the top of the screen. That will open the Posts Editor. Name Your Blog Post The first box you’ll fill in is the name of your Blog Post. Please note, these names will need to be unique. You cannot have duplicate blog post of the same name. Once you type the name of your post hit enter/return. Here is what the page will look like once you enter your blog post name. In the example I

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Adding Media to Your Site

This tutorial will be helpful to you if you are trying to add any of the following file types to your website: JPEG  |  PNG  |  PDF  |  MP4  |  SVG These files are called “media” and are used in a variety of places on your website. You will need to upload your media file(s) in order to make changes or add something to your site. Please Log-In to your site admin dashboard. For help with logging-in please visit THIS tutorial. Once you are logged in, click on “Media” in menu located to the left of your screen. You can see it circled below. Once in the media file you’ll either see the GRID view like this: Or a LIST view like this: Either option will work. Just chose the one you prefer to work with by clicking on the list or grid icon underneath the “Media Library” title. The

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How to Log In

First things first! Type your website address into the URL address bar. You can see we’ve typed our address in for example. This will get you to the front end of the site. In other words, the part of your site that is presented to the world. Owner Dashboard Next, you’ll need to log into your site administrator dashboard in order to edit your content. The log in is hidden from public view. To access the log-in page you’ll simply add /wp-admin to the end of your website address and press enter. It will look like this: yoursiteaddress.com/wp-admin See our example below. Log-In You should be directed to the log-in page that will similar to this: Next you’ll want to type in your username in the Username or Email Address box and Password into the Password box. You can decide if you want your personal computer to “Remember me” but

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