User Guides: WordPress Basics
Add a menu item that links to a page section
You can add a menu item whose link goes to a specific section on the same page or a section on a different page. This works with any of your site menus, which you can create and edit by clicking Appearance > Menus in the BBWP admin panel. Note: If the section is on the…
Add an icon to a menu item
It’s easy to add a Font Awesome 5 icon to appear as a nav menu item. The icon can replace menu text or appear before or after menu text. For example, suppose you want to replace an existing menu item labeled Cart with a shopping cart icon, as shown in the following screenshot. Note: The…
Create a New Page
From the top admin bar, hover over “New” and select “Page” Give the Page a Name Will this page be a sub-page of another page? For example, if you’re creating a Staff page, you may want the page to be in the About section in your menu. Google likes to see that pages are organized…
Create and Manage Redirects
The redirect management page is where you’ll do most of the work. (Tools > Redirection) – It consists of a table with all your redirects and a section to add new ones. To access this page select the Redirects option in the top menu bar. Adding a Redirect Click the “add new” button to create a…
Getting Started with the Redirection Tool
To get started with Redirection, head over to the menu option in the admin menu under Tools > Redirection. Selecting this will open Redirection’s admin interface and will initially show your redirects. At the top of the page is a submenu where you can navigate to different parts of Redirection. This is known as the…
How to Add Email Subscriptions to Your BBWP Blog
Do you want to add email subscription to your BBWP blog? In this article, we will show you how to add email subscriptions to your blog and start building your email list. Why You Should Add Subscribe via Email Option to Your Site? While social media is a great way to interact with your readers,…
How to Correct Personal Data
If a constituent/user of your website inquires about correcting their personal data that may be stored in your BBWP website, please reach out to Blackbaud Support so we can assist.
How to Erase Personal Data
Note: Erase Personal Data tool does not remove the data from backups or archive files: When using the tool alongside automated backups or archives, we advise you to exercise caution when restoring user data from backups. When restoring an archived copy of your site, your requests for erasure should be respected. Log in to your…
How to Export Personal Data
Log in to your BBWP dashboard. Go to Tools > Export Personal Data Enter the email address and ‘send request’ to the user requesting the export of their personal data. The user will need to access their email and click on the confirmation link before they can access the export file of their personal data.…
How to Set an Expiration Date on Posts
Post expiration allows you to set an expiration date and time for your Posts so that you don’t have to manually remove them. Note: Expiring a post will unpublish it and save it as a draft. This feature is only available for Posts. (not pages or other Custom Post Types) The process is simple: Sign…
Import and Export Redirects
You can import and export redirects using the Import/Export page, accessed from the Import/Export option in the top menu of Redirection. (Tools > Redirection > Import/Export) From here you can import: CSV files – just simple redirects, with no matches or actions Additionally you can export to: CSV file – just simple redirects, with no…
Manage the Media Library
The following article will walk you through the various options and features available for the management of your Media Library, which can be organized into folders and sub-folders. 1. Manage folders from posts or pages To manage your Media Library directly from a post or page (or module containing a text editor), just click on…
Margins and padding
The Blackbaud Builder has the following built-in spacing defaults. Rows and columns have default margins and padding. Modules have default margins. An auto spacing feature for small devices is enabled by default. This feature reduces spacing automatically on mobile devices. This means the layout should look decent at all device sizes without any special effort…
Matching a URL with Redirection
At the heart of Redirection (Tools > Redirection) is the ability to match a URL and then do something. A URL looks like this: http://example.com/path/to/something?query=param There are several parts to this: Protocol – http or https Domain – example.com Path – /path/to/something/ Query parameters – ?query=param Protocol and domain Typically Redirection will match URLs on…
Matching Redirects
When you create a redirect in Redirection (Tools > Redirection) it always has at the very least a source URL. You can also optionally configure other details to determine if a request is matched. URL only – the source URL must match the requested page URL. This is the basic redirect URL and login status…
Redirect Actions
Once a URL has been matched you can perform an action, such as redirecting the user, or sending an error. Pick the type of action from the When matched dropdown: Redirect to URL – redirect the user to another URL, updating the URL in the user’s browser. This is the default. Redirect to random post…
Redirect Regular Expressions
A regular expression (or regex) is a group of characters used to find a pattern within a piece of text. In the context of Redirection, a plain URL match will match exactly one URL. A regex URL can match many URLs. In addition to matching many URLs, a regular expression can extract information from the…
Redirection FAQ
I deleted a redirection. clear your browser cache. redirect. Can I redirect an anchor (#)? 404 errors. 404 log. log information, such as IP, user agent, and referrer.
Bots. IP address. external site. host. server. domain. greedy expression.
Restore a published item that you deleted.
Deleting a published item means sending it to the trash. If you haven’t emptied the trash, you can restore the item you deleted by doing the following: For saved pages, posts, events, forms or other custom posts you may have, go into the Admin panel and click on the respective tab in the left sidebar.…
Revert to a previous version of a published item
There are two ways to revert to a previous version: the easy way and the hard way. The easy way works for all Blackbaud Builder layouts. The hard way works for all Blackbaud Builder layouts as well as native WordPress content and most custom post types. Note: A revision is created for Blackbaud Builder layouts…