The block of features is always in multiples of three. The last 9 features by date are the ones shown.

In the WordPress admin, view all posts in the "Special Projects" category too see all possible special features. Special features on the front are made by creating a seperate post from the original story Post or Page. These new posts serve as a proxy for the original. The order they appear in the feature bar is determined by the date of the proxy post, witht the 9 most recent showing.

The featured spot is made by adding a new post, giving it a title and art and then telling the post to redirect to the project’s real location.Start by giving your new post a title, but also include "Special Projects – Redirect," so that in the admin it’s clear that this isn’t the actual story, only the proxy story. No body copy is needed.

The front page special features row pulls the proxy posts by looking for the last 9 in the "Redirects" and the "Special Projects" categories. You much categorize your stories in those two categories only. Other categories would put the proxy post in standard news categories, which is probably *not* what you want to do.

In the custom fields, add a "redirect" with the value being the URL of the story or page you want your special feature icon to go.

Set the author to the staff account for your site, otherwise both the original post and the redirected proxy post will appear on your staff page.

The image shown on the front is simply a lead image, just like any other lead image onour site. The image you upload should be 200px wide by 118px tall. If it isn’t exactly that sized, the site will crop it to that size, so you’re image might look different on the site than it did when you uploaded it. Don’t "Insert into post," align or set a size. Simply "Save all changes."

Because this proxy post is treated like any other post in WordPress, we want to set the date back so that it doesn’t show up unwanted places, like the related stories bar at the bottom of posts. I usually set the post back 30 days or so. Remember, this date sets the order on the front page too, so you may want to set the date so the post appears in a certain spot in the list.

After you publish this proxy post your link will appear on the front page!

Go to iTunes -> File -> Preferences and click the "Import Settings" buttons on the "General" tab.

Select the MP3 encoder and "Custom" under the settings menu

Select a bit rate of 192kbps, a sample rate of 44.100kHz and *don’t* select VBR. Once your settings match this screenshot click "Okay."

Drag your source file (AIF or WAV) into iTunes (or Import under the File menu). Right click the file in the list and select "Create MP3 Version." After the encode, drag the new file to your desktop.

An unstyled CalPress bio page. In addition to custom fields, it also lists all comments and stories by the author.

Here’s an example of a styled author profile running the North Gate child theme. In addition to color, it also tabs the content.

If an author fills out the twitter handle field, their profile page will show recent tweets.

CalPress adds a short bio field. If a short bio exists, it is shown at the bottom of all Posts by that author.

Under "Profile" in the WordPress admin.

Under the "Author" option on the Post, select a new author.

WordPress by default assumes one byline. CalPress uses the "Display name publicly as" setting in the user’s profile as the byline. CalPress turns the byline into a link to the author’s bio page.

The default byline comes from the "Author" field at the bottom of a Post. This can be changed to any other author in the system.

Here is an article with mutliple bylines. Unlike a default byline, there are no links to individual author profiles. In fact, internally WordPress has kept the association with the original author. So the article can only be listed under one person’s proflle page.

To add multiple bylines, select (or add if they don’t exist) a "byline" in the "Name" field. Put the name you want to use in the "Value" field. Use one "byline" custom field for each name you want. CalPress will automatically but in the appropriate seperator between the names.

There are a couple of downsides to using the multiple bylines option. The primary is that the Post is still associated with the author listed in the drop down "Author" option in the Post. In the exampel above, Katherine would have the story associated her profile. Josh, on the other hand, would not.

Here is a search for the term "economy" on Twitter. The search updates in every few seconds.

Our Post before the search

In the Custom Fields at the bottom of your Post, select "twitter_search" from the drop down menu. If it’s not there, simply add it to the "Name" field. In the "Value" field put the term you want to search for. For example, "ecomony" would search for all instances of the word. Adding a hash, as in "#economy," would search for the term only if Twitter users also used the hash. Once done, click "Add Custom Field" and resave your Post.

CalPress’ "news" layout shows stories in this order. By default, all published "Posts" will flow through the front of the site in this order, regardless of category. For most news websites, this isn’t ideal.

If not already done so, you can have CalPress only put Posts from specific categories on the front page. As as a site administrator, go to the Basic Configuration in the CalPress Options in the WordPress admin.

In the Basic Configuration screen, select the category you wish to use from the dropdown. I often make a category called "Front." This allows me to categorize news stories under Sports, Politics, etc, but also decide which ones need to go to the front of the site.

Now all front page stories are from a specific category

Sometimes even specifing a single category doesn’t give us enough control. If we have a front page category selected, we can also specifiy a "lead story" category. Lead story category stories stay in the featured content area above.

Go back to the Basic Configuration settings in CalPress. From there, select the category you want to use in the "Lead Story" area. I tend to use a category called "Featured." Then, any Post I put in the "Front" and "Featured" category ends up on lead story spot.

In the Post, select your chosen front and lead story category. Those stories should apear in the desired area on the front page.

In the WordPress admin, find CalPress Producer under the CalPress options on the bottom left of the screen.

Select the radio button under the preview of the layout you want. If no layout is selected, CalPress will default to the "Blog" layout included in CalPress.

Once you’ve selected the layout you want, click "Make Live" at the bottom of the page.

YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF THE CODE BELOW. COPY AND PASTE INTO A TEXT EDITOR:

<div id="post-26566" class="hentry p8 post publish author-oakland-north-staff category-business category-development category-economy category-featured category-front untagged y2010 m05 d13 h13 alt">
<div class="lead-art entry-leadphoto">
<a href="http://PAGEURL HERE"><img alt="" src="http://oaklandnorth.net/wp-content/themes/calpress/library/extensions/timthumb.php?src=IMAGE URL HERE&w=XXX"></a>
</div>
<h2 class="entry-title">
<a href="LINK TO PAGE HERE" title="Permalink to page" rel="bookmark">TITLE HERE
</a>
</h2>
<div class="entry-meta">
<span class="entry-byline">By: BYLINE HERE <a class="url fn n" href="LINK TO AUTHORS PAGE EG: http://oaklandnorth.net/author/staff/" title="View all posts by XXX"></a></span> <span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="2010-02-17T13:06:38-0800">DATE HERE</abbr></span>
</div>
<div class="entry-content">
<p>EXERPT HERE</p>
</div>
</div>

1. Place the link to the PAGE here
2. Place the URL of the image here, DON’T forget to size the image to the exact size for the front page: 620 for ART LEDE and 360 for normal, enter the width here w=xxx. SEE BELOW ON HOW TO UPLOAD AND GET THE IMAGE URL
3 Again the link to the PAGE HERE (NOTE:YOU MUST PUBLISH THE PAGE FIRST, You can’t paste a PREVIEW URL HERE, the page must be live)
4. TITLE of the post goes here.
5/6 Enter the byline of the reporter and a link to their bio page.
7. Enter their name again
8. Insert the date you are publishing this post.
9. Paste an exerpt here

1. You can access the Calpress Producer in the lower left inside WordPress
2. If you choose default layout, make sure your image is sized to 360 px, likewise if you choose Art Lede is should be 620px.
3. Paste your modified code in this field. PLEASE KEEP A BACK UP COPY OF YOUR CODE ON YOUR COMPUTER.

1. Click the Media/Add New option in the WordPress dashboard, then select your file.

Once uploaded copy the URL from the File URL field. YOU NOW HAVE THE URL to paste into the code section as described above.

1. REMEMEBR The post/page MUST BE PUBLISHED. Go to the post/page and copy the URL from your nav bar. IF IT SAYS PREVIEW in the URL, then it hasn’t been published yet, PLEASE publish THEN copy the URL to the appropriate place in the above code.

EVERY author has a page and a URL. You can find their page by finding a story they have published and clicking on their name, their profile page will come up, copy that URL.

Once you have finished entering all the fields in the code and pasted the code in the override field, click the Make Live! button. PLEASE avoid clicking the reset button. It’s a self destruct button that explodes the entire J-School.