News Editors

TEI news editors are volunteers from the TEI community who post news items to our SourceForge WordPress blog. From there they generate RSS feeds that are pulled into the news sidebar on the TEI website home page, and the TEI News page.

This page documents the procedures for new news editors.

• [of current news editors]

How to Post an Article

Before you first post a live article, go through the following steps with a couple of test items but stop short just before the "Publish" stage, to practice using the WordPress interface.

1. Go to the TEI Sourceforge WordPress blog and log in (link at top of page) with your Sourceforge ID.
2. In the right-hand sidebar under "Meta", click "Site Admin"
3. In the left-hand sidebar under "Posts", click "Add New". This should put you into the "Add New Post" page, with your cursor in the title line for the post.
4. Add a brief descriptive title for your post. Past articles on the WordPress blog will give you a sense of appropriate length and content.
5. From this point, how you proceed will depend on whether you are composing an article from scratch or copying and pasting, and whether you prefer to work in WYSIWYG or raw HTML mode.
   1. Copying and Pasting
      1. from HTML: Click on the HTML tab at the top of the editing window. You can probably just copy your source HTML and paste directly into WordPress successfully, but as WordPress won't necessarily render 100% of HTML as your source did, check the entry in the Visual tab.
      2. from text: Line breaks in your source text will be preserved in the WordPress article, so if possible pre-format the text of your post by consolidating each paragraph into a single line. (If you're good with an editor like vi or Emacs you'll probably find they are good tools for doing this quickly.) Then either use the WYSIWYG icons to add formatting and links, or go into HTML mode to tag them as code.