Forum Feedback Guide to posting articles on TE portal

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Renegade

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As you all know we are in the process of redesigning and reformatting the TE portal which was just serving as a forum dashboard earlier. The forums are now integrated with the portal in terms of user base. So you can directly post your articles on the portal. It gives you the freedom to work on your articles as drafts before submitting for review. It even has more powerful options to format your articles better.

Follow this simple guide to post your articles from now on:

Open TE home page

If you are already logged in to the forum, you will be shown as logged in to the portal as well

  • A. Click on Site-Admin to reach the backend

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This is your dashboard. On the right you can quickly add a post and save it as draft or for review

  • B. Click on Add New

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When on the new page follow these steps

  • 1. Add the title
  • 2. Add the content
  • 3. Add the Post Tags if you want to
  • 4. Select an appropriate category. Only one category

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Scroll down to the bottom of the page

  • 5. From the add new custom field dropdown, select author-name
  • 6. Enter your name
  • 7. Each article has a display image on the forum home, this is where you upload that image
  • 8. Select an image (resized and cropped to dimensions = 203 x 130 for best results) from your computer
  • 9. Enter image title and Click save

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You will now be taken to the top of the page where it says, draft updated.

  • 10. Click on the left on Your profile
  • 11. You will be taken your usercp in a new tab, again click on Your profile
  • 12. Copy your profile address from the address bar

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Go back to the draft article tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page

  • 13. Select author profile from the add new custom field
  • 14. Paste your profile address in the box
  • 15. Hit submit for review

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For reading more about the following posting guides, visit this page here

* 1 Descriptions of Post Fields

* 2 Best Practices For Posting

* 3 Visual Versus HTML Editor

* 4 More Information and Resources
 
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It would be great if people with existing guides can post their articles on the portal. Would reduce a lot of work for us. Even if you don't do that, just ensure that from now on you post on the portal.

Thank You :D

Edit - In future we intend to bring in a points system for portal as well. We are still working out the parameters which should be used to award points and display a leader board.
 
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