Adding Content, Hyperlinks, and Embedding Videos

This guide covers the following topics:

• How to add content to a page
• How to add a hyperlink
• How to embed a video in a page
• Advanced: Modifying the file upload size limit

Adding Content

WordPress provides various content blocks that allow you to add text, media, and other elements to a page.

1. Access the Dashboard Log in to the WordPress Dashboard of your website.

2. Navigate to Pages In the left-hand menu, click Pages > All Pages This section contains all your website's pages.
   
   

• Find the page you want to edit and click Edit.
• If you are creating a new page, refer to Creating a New Page

3. Use the Page Editor

• Type the content directly onto the page.
• Click the + icon to add a content block.
  
  

4. Common Content Blocks Here are some common blocks you may use:

• Paragraph : Adds standard text content.
• Heading : Formats text as titles or subtitles.
• List : Creates bullet points or numbered lists.
• Media & Text : Aligns text with images or media.
• Quote : Highlights quoted text.
• Table : Inserts tabular data. To add images, refer to (Formatting of Pictures)[https://github.com/UoMResearchIT/SPRITE/wiki/Formatting-of-Pictures]

Adding a Hyperlink

Hyperlinks allow you to link to different pages within your site or to external resources.

1. Highlight the text where you want to add the link.
   
   

2. Click the Link button in the toolbar.

3. Link to a page within your site:

• Type a keyword related to the page you want to link to.
• Select the correct page from the suggested list.
  
  

4. Link to an external resource:

• Enter the full URL of the resource.
  
  
• Then press enter to this link.

5. Editing Link Settings:

• Click on the link text and then click the pencil icon to edit the link.
  
  
• By default, links open in the same tab. To open in a new tab, enable the "Open in new tab" option in the Advanced settings.
  
  

Embedding a Video

1. Open the Page Editor and click the + icon to add a block.
2. Search for Video to see available video-related blocks:

• Video : Embeds a video from your media library.
• YouTube : Embeds a YouTube video using a link.

3. Select the Video block and choose a video from your media library.
4. Fill in optional details like Title and Caption.
   
   
5. Click Select to embed the video into your page.

Advanced: Uploading Large Files (Increasing File Upload Size)

1. Access the Dashboard Log in to the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Navigate to Theme File Editor Go to Appearance > Theme File Editor.
   
   

• If this is your first time accessing this section, you will see a warning message. Click "I Understand" to proceed.

3. Modify functions.php

• On the right side, locate and select functions.php.
  
  
• Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste the following code (set upload file size to 200MB):

@ini_set('upload_max_size', '200M');
@ini_set('post_max_size', '200M');
@ini_set('max_execution_time', '300');

• Click Update File to save the changes.