Timing
Review existing content
- Update placeholder links
- Confirm site navigation/menu
- Update page statuses (draft vs published) for pages
Move remaining content
As a reminder, you should have been cleaning up your current website’s content and pages before you received your site shell. If you didn’t do this prior to your site shell delivery, please click here.
- Make a plan of how you will be migrating remaining content over
- Review your pages once more to ensure that there isn’t any outdated content, broken links, old page redirects, etc.
- Assign an owner to each page that will be migrated over
- Review with the owners of each page if you would like the page to look different on the new site (new photos, updated layout, updated content/wording)
- Before beginning to migrate content over, be sure to make note of any pages that may need to be updated on your old site and new site:
- News Articles
- Event pages
- Begin migrating over your content from your old site
- After migrating over your pages, make sure to review what the end user will see by clicking preview in the top navigation.
Add additional admins
Steps to adding a new admin through WordPress:
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard
- Can be found by clicking on the name of your site in the black admin bar at the top of your screen
- Locate the “Users” tab on the left side of your screen
- Click “add users” in the sub-menu
- Enter in the relevant information for a new user
- Enter in a username
- Enter the user’s email
- Select “Administrator” in the Role section
- Click “Add new User”
When you add a new user, they will receive an email to activate their account and create a login and password.
(NOTE: if you check the ‘skip confirmation email’ setting, the user will not get this email. Therefore, it is recommended to not check the box)
Accessing your Training Videos + Site Guide
As you finalize the site content for launch, continue to use these resources:
- Review all of the WordPress training videos on your new site shell.
- Review your WP Site Guide
USYS admins have access to our WP Site guide. To access this site guide add ‘/site-guide’ to the end of the URL on your homepage. For example, https://vip.sportsengine.com/usyouthsoccer/site-guide
NOTE: This page is not in the navigation, so bookmark your site’s ‘/site-guide’ page for future reference.
As you have questions, you can review the WordPress training videos, site guide or reach out to usys@sportsengine.com.
Q&A:
We recorded the Batch 2 Q&A session, click below to watch
We recorded the Batch 1 Q&A session, click below to watch
Registering for Launch
Batch 1 & 2: You are able to sign up for your launch date now. CLICK HERE to be brought to the signup registration.
As a reminder, site launch dates for Batch 1 are September 12th, 13th or 14th and Batch 2 are September 19th, 20th or 21st.