Glebe Walks

To Create a New Walk
Log into Glebe Walks Admin.

Set Up the Walk

• In the left sidebar menu, click on Stops and then
• Click Walks
• Enter the name of the new Walk. (A “slug” will be created automatically.)
• Leave the Parent Category as “None”.
• Click Add//Upload Image and upload the image to be used as the icon on the map
  (The icon should be 32 x 32 pixels.)
• Click Add New Walk.
• The Walk will now appear as an entry on the main part of the page.

Edit Its Details

• Click on the title of Walk on the main part of the page
• Fill in the Walk Details (e.g. 3 kilometres with steep hills)
• Select the Path Colour for the map

Define the Path

• In the left sidebar menu, click on Stops and then
• Click Add Stop
• In the Edit Stop Screen, fill in the title of the Walk
• Skip the main text box.
• Enter the brief description of the Walk in the Excerpt box
• Skip the Revisions and Walk Stop Information boxes.
• In the Path Data box enter the co-ordinates* of every point on the walk, one per line in the format 151.123456,-33.123456,0.0

*To find Co-ordinates in Google Maps

• Locate the point whose co-ordinates you want in Google Maps.
• Right-click on that point.
• In the pop-up menu, select “What’s here?”
• The co-ordinates will be displayed in a box near the bottom of the screen.
• You can copy the co-ordinates by hand but it is easiest to:
  • Click on the co-ordinates displayed in the box.
  • The co-ordinates will appear in a panel at the left of the screen.
  • Select and copy the co-ordinates.
• Google displays co-ordinates as latitude then longitude but Glebe Walks paths are defined by longitude then latitude and altitude. So you have to reformat them from -33.123456, 151.123456 to 151.123456,-33.123456 and add ,0.0

To Create a New Stop
Log into Glebe Walks Admin.

Set Up the Stop

• In the left sidebar menu, click on Stops and then
• Click Add Stop
• Enter the title of the Stop
• Describe the Stop in the main text box
• Provide a brief description of the Stop in the Excerpt text box
• In the Walk Stop Information box, enter the Co-ordinates of the Stop
  See the instructions above to find the co-ordinates from Google Maps but note that the co-ordinates here are latitude then longitude, e.g. -33.123456, 151.123456 (unlike when specifying the path).
• Skip the More Information Items and Path Data boxes.
• In the right-hand column,
  • Tick the title of the Walk in the Walks list
  • In the Order box, assign the number of the current stop in the Walk
  • Scroll back up to the top of the column and click Publish.

Add Images

• In the left sidebar menu, click Media.
• Click Add New near the top of the page.
• Click Select Files and add an image from your computer.
• When the image is uploaded, click Media in the sidebar again.
• Click Attach in the Uploaded to column.
• In the pop-up, click the name of the Stop at which you want the image to appear.
• Repeat this for as many images as you want to appear in the slideshow at the top of the Stop’s page.

To Edit a Stop
Log into Glebe Walks Admin.

To Change the Text

• In the left sidebar menu, click on Stops and then All Stops.
• Click the title of the Stop you want to edit.
• Change the information in the text boxes as required.
• Click Update in the right sidebar.

To Remove Images

• In the left sidebar menu, click Media.
• Locate any image you want to remove.
• Either:
  • To remove the image from a Walk or Stop page, click Detach under the name of the image in the Uploaded To column, or
  • To remove the image from Glebe Walks completely, hover over the title in the File column and click Delete Permanently

More Info Pages and Links

Create a More Info Page

• In the left sidebar menu, click More Info Posts and then.
• Click Add More Info Item.
• Enter the Title of the item
• Give details of the Item in the main text box
• Provide a brief description of the item in the Excerpt text box.
• Note the Permalink (URL) from under the Title near the top of the screen
• Click Publish in the right hand column.

Add More Info Links

• In the left sidebar menu, click Stops and then.
• Click either All Stops or Walks and then the title of the Stop or Walk to which you want to add the Link.
• Scroll down to More Information Items in the Walk Stop Information box
• Enter a link to the More Info item in html in the following format:
  • For a web page: <a href=”URL OF LINK” target=”_blank”>TITLE OF LINK</a>
    e.g. <a href=”https://glebewalks.com.au/?tb_walk_more_info=italianate-style”>Italianate style</a>
  • For a publication: AUTHOR; <em>TITLE</em>; TITLE; DATE
    e.g. Solling, M; <em>Grandeur & Grit: a History of Glebe</em>; Halstead Press; 2007
• If you have more than one More Info item, enter them on separate lines.