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Forms, Polls, Voting, Surveys & Contests

Rayos uses the Gravity Forms plugin as a tool to create forms including polls, surveys, voting forms, contest entries, and contact forms. The plugin allows users to create forms from the simple to the advanced.  Features such as conditional logic, complex formatting, hidden fields, and dynamic data may require some level of HTML and programming knowledge. If you want to make a form…

Gallery Templates

When a gallery is added to an article or page, the content creator can choose from a list of gallery templates that will determine how the elements are displayed.  Site builders can set up multiple gallery templates with various configurations for content creators to use. To edit or create new templates, go to Settings > Gallery Settings. Gallery Template Types Slideshow…

Galleries

Galleries are a great solution when you have several images relevant to a particular Article. The GTxcel platform allows you to quickly and easily add a gallery to any article. To add a gallery to an article: Open an existing article or create a new article. In the Gallery box, click Add Images to open the Media Library. Select images from your…

Article Images

There are three main ways that you can add images to your articles: as the featured image, as an in-article image, or as part of a gallery. Featured images and in-article images and all of their particularities are discussed in this article. (See Galleries for more information about images in a gallery.) Whether you are working with a featured image…

Tags

Tags are metadata (information) about an article that tells WordPress, plugins, search engines, and website visitors what each article is about. Tags are fluid; they can change as news topics come and go. They don’t speak to the site as a whole, but rather the specific people looking for content on that term. Tags can be created on the fly…

Create A New Category Group

Category groups keep your categories organized to help your contributors find the appropriate categories when publishing content to your site. Groups are not visible to your website visitors. If you find you need a new Category Group, you can easily create a new group and mass assign categories. Go to Articles > Category Groups Name your category group Add a…

Assigning Category Groups

Category groups keep your categories organized to help your contributors find the appropriate categories when publishing content to your site. Groups are not visible to your website visitors. Categories can be assigned individually to a group from the Category edit page or in bulk via the Category Group edit page. Assigning an individual category to a group: Go to Articles >…

Configure Article Advertising

Article page ad units are driven by the editorial categorization of the content. The category system can be configured to assist in choosing the correct primary advertising category as well as tie articles to landing pages so that the articles and landing page ads can be targeted together as a group. Primary Categories While you can choose multiple categories on…

Hidden vs Public Categories

Hidden vs Public Categories All Categories are used by the GTxcel for WordPress system to determine where content appears on the site. Each List determines which articles should display by limiting the range of articles by category. Public Categories serve an additional purpose in that they also help your website visitors and search engines find content. They do this in the following ways:…

Creating A New Category

Categories and tags are metadata (information) about the article that tells WordPress, plugins, search engines, and website visitors what each article is about. Categories tell the WORLD what your site is about. They are the main outline of your site’s content and should be SEO friendly, concise, and fairly steady over time. For more information on categories versus tags and category best practices, view…