All you need to do is:

1. Activate the Subscribe2 plugin
2. Activate the Subscribe2 widget and configure your settings on the Subscribe2 page — make sure you enable the Enable Subscribe2 Widget?
3. Add the Subscribe2 widget to your blog sidebar

1. Activating your Subscribe2 Plugin

• Go to Plugins > Installed in your Dashboard
• Click on Activate below the Subscribe2 plugin
  

2. Configuring your Subscribe2 Settings

Once Subscribe2 has been activated in your Plugins area you need to go to Settings > Subscribe2 to configure your settings and activate your Subscribe2 widget.

Subscribe2 has quite a few configuration options, so lets explain them one at a time:

Notification Settings

Restrict the number of recipients per email to

Used if a hosting provider imposes limits on out going emails (as a measure to limit spammers). By default, this is set to unlimited; no limit on the number of emails sent to recipients.

There is no need to edit this setting.

Send Admins notifications for new

This allows you to decide if you want to receive a notification when a person subscribes and/or unsubscribes. Change this to Neither if you don’t want to receive email notifications of subscription changes.

Include theme CSS stylesheet in HTML notifications

By default, include theme CSS stylesheet in HTML notifications is set to yes. There is no need to change this setting.

Send Emails for Pages

Change this to Yes if you want your email subscribers to be notified of new pages added to your site

Send Emails for Password Protected Posts

You normally use password protected posts to restrict the access to viewing particular posts or pages. In most situations you would leave this as No.

Send Emails for Private Posts

Private posts are only visible on the blog’s post page to logged in Editors and Administrators. In most situations you would leave this as No.

Send Email From

When the email is sent to your subscribers it adds an email address and username to the bottom of the email. The ‘Send Email from’ option provides you the ability to have it sent from the person who wrote the post (Post Author) or a specific user attached to the blog.

Send Emails

1. In most situations you would leave this as For Each Post. This means your subscribers will be sent an email each time a new post is added to your blog.
   Once Daily or Weekly are more likely to be used on blogs with high posting frequency i.e. several posts per day. With either of these options your subscribers will be sent Daily or Weekly Digest of your posts.
2. ‘Send Emails’ — used to control how frequently the email is sent to your subscribers.

Email Templates

There are four different automatic email sent from Subscribe2 to subscribers:

1. Subscribe confirmation email
2. Unsubscribe confirmation email
3. Reminder email for unconfirmed subscribers
4. Post or Digest email

The Subscribe confirmation, Unsubscribe confirmation and Reminder emails are only sent to public subscribers. These are readers who subscribe by adding their email address to the Subscribe2 widget in your blog sidebar. To complete their request they need to click on the link in the email.

The email templates control what information is sent in each of these emails. In most situations you wouldn’t make changes to any of these email templates.

Excluded Categories

Excluded categories are used if you don’t want emails sent for specific post categories. For example, the category “All about Plugins” in the screenshot below has been selected; this means readers won’t be notified of any post assigned to that category.

However you can choose to allow registered users to subscribe to excluded categories.

Registered Subscribers users that are logged into their campus account and who have subscribe to email updates by clicking on your profile link in ‘manage your subscription options from your profile’.

They have an additional option area under Users > Subscription in the dashboard of the blog they have subscribe to. This area allows them to choose which categories they would like to receive notifications about and also allows them to choose the email format.

Appearance

Set default Subscribe2 page as ID:

By default, Set default Subscribe2 page as ID is set to 0. There is no need to change this setting.

Set the number of Subscribers displayed per page:

You manage your Subscribe2 subscribers using Manage Subscribers page accessed using Tools > Subscribers.

On the Manage subscribers page you can:

1. Subscribe and unsubscribe readers
2. Check subscriber numbers
3. Search subscriber details
4. Alter which categories readers are subscribed to

The Set the number of Subscribers displayed per page is used to control how many subscribers are shown per page on your Manage Subscriber page. By default, this is set to 25. You can increase or decrease the number by clicking Edit and then Update.

Show a link to your subscription page in “meta”?

By default, Show a link to your subscription page in “meta”? is not selected. There is no need to change this setting.

Show the Subscribe2 button on the Write toolbar?

This adds a Subscribe2 button to the formatting toolbar in your write Post/Page area. This provides the ability to add a Subscribe2 form to any post or page; then your readers just need to enter their email address or click on manage profile to subscribe by email.

By default, the Show the Subscribe2 button on the Write toolbar? is selected. If you want the S2 button to display in your formatting toolbar you keep it selected.

Enable Subscribe2 Widget?

This adds a Subscribe2 Widget to Appearance > Widgets.

You use the Subscribe2 Widget to add a form to your sidebar for readers simply enter their email addres and then click on “Subscribe” or click manage profile. The readers then receive an email notifying when new posts are published on the site.

Once enable you need to go to Appearance > Widgets and add the Subscribe2 Widget to the desired sidebar.

By default, the Enable Subscribe2 Widget? isn’t selected. If you want access to the Subscribe2 widget you need to change this setting by selecting it and clicking Submit.

Auto Subscribe

Subscribe new users registering with your blog

This option provides the ability to automatically subscribe all new users added to your blog to email notification by Subscribe.

When configured to automatically Subscribe new users registering with your blog any new users added to your blog using Users > Add New or Users > Add Users will also automatically also be added as Subscribe2 subscribers and will be listed on Tools > Subscribers.

By default, the Subscribe new users registering with your blog is No. To automatically add all new subscribers change this setting to Automatically and clicking Submit.

Auto-subscribe includes any excluded categories

By default, Auto-subscribe includes any excluded categories is not selected. There is no need to change this setting.

Registration Form option is checked by default

By default, Registration Form option is checked by default is not selected. There is no need to change this setting.

Auto-subscribe users to receive email as

There are two types of Subscribe2 subscribers:

1. Public subscribers – who subscribe by entering their email address
2. Registered subscribers – that are logged into their campus account and who have subscribe to email updates by clicking on your profile link in ‘manage your subscription options from your profile’.

Public subscribers receive an excerpt for each post made to the blog provided you have not published it to a category that you have defined as excluded in Settings > Subscribe2.

Registered subscribers can choose their preferred email type as either:

• Plain Text – Excerpt
• Plain Text – Full Post
• HTML – Full Post

The ‘Auto-subscribe users to receive email as’ option allows you to set what email format all automatically added subscribers receive. By default, auto-subscribers receive Plain Text – Except. All you need to do is change this to your preferred option and then click Submit.

Here are examples of the look of the different formats.

Registered Users have the option to auto-subscribe to new categories

By default, Registered Users have the option to auto-subscribe to new categories is Yes. There is no need to change this setting.

Option for Registered Users to auto-subscribe to new categories is checked by default

By default, Option for Registered Users to auto-subscribe to new categories is checked by default is Yes. There is no need to change this setting.

Barred Domains

This option is used if you want to prevent specific email domains from signing up as a public subscriber.

3. Adding the Subscribe2 widget to your blog sidebar

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets in your Dashboard
   
2. Click on the desired Sidebar to expand (so you can add the widgets)
   
3. To add the Subscribe2 widget, drag it from the Available Widgets or Inactive Widgets areas on the left into the Sidebar area on the right
   

Email subscribers are automatically notified of new posts or information on the blog and don’t need to subscribe by RSS or regular visit the site to check for new updates.

It can also be used by the site administrator to:

• Send out emails to all confirmed subscribers.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe readers

Find out more:

• Setting Up and Configuring Email Newsletter
• Using Email Newsletters

This is the default editing mode of Church Web Werx sites, but if it does not appear to be enabled, you can select the Visual tab in the top right corner of the editor area, as depicted below.

There are two (2) rows of editing icons contained within the visual editor. You can find out what any icon means or does by hovering over it with your mouse – a small tooltip will appear describing the icon and its purpose.

Row 1

When initially opened, the visual editor will display a single row of icons:

1. Bold
2. Italic
3. Strike-through
4. Unordered list (bullet points):
   • Item 1
   • Item 2
5. Ordered list
   1. Item 1
   2. Item 2
6. Blockquote (a way of displaying quoted text; each theme will style this differently.)
   

   Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

7. Align Left
8. Align Center
9. Align Right
10. Insert/edit link
11. Unlink
12. Insert More tag
13. Toggle proofreading
14. Toggle fullscreen mode
15. Show/Hide Kitchen sink (enables the second row of editing icons:

Row 2

To display the second row of icons, select the kitchen sink icon

1. Style – various formatting styles defined by your theme
2. Underline
3. Align full
4. Select text color – change the text color
5. Paste as Plain Text
6. Paste from Word
7. Remove formatting
8. Insert custom character
9. Outdent – move text further left
10. Indent – move text further right
11. Undo – undo your last action
12. Redo – redo your last action
13. Help – display some information about using the editor, as well as keyboard shortcuts.

Alignment

Both text and images can be aligned using the appropriate icons:

Left

Right

Center

Full

Note that full alignment can only be applied to text and will align both sides of the text.

Styles

The style drop-down menu allows you to change the formatting of any selected text. This includes various headings and other pre-defined styles built into your theme . Note that all styles are defined within your theme.

Text Color

To change text color you must first highlight a section of text:

Clicking on the down arrow next to the text color button will display a color selector:

Selecting a color will apply that color to the selected text and make it the default color for the color button.

Clicking on the text color button itself will apply the last default color.

Pasting Text

If you copy and paste text from somewhere else you may discover that it does not always appear exactly as you would expect. If you use the Paste as text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text.

Once clicked a window appears where you can enter your text:

Checking the keep linebreaks box will preserve all HTML <br /> tags. Unchecking this option will remove them.

Remove Formatting

The remove formatting button, as you would expect, removes all formatting (bold, italic, colors etc) from a highlighted section of text. First select your text:

When the button is clicked all the formatting will be removed:

Custom Characters

As well as the normal letters available directly from your keyboard you can also insert special characters. Position your cursor to where you want to insert a character and click on the insert custom character button. A popup window will appear:

Click any character and it will be inserted at your cursor position.

Outdent / Indent

The indent button will move text in by one level, and the outdent button will take away one level.

Visual Editor Links

To add a link using the Visual editor:

1. Highlight the text you want to link.
2. Click the link button on the toolbar.

   

3. A popup will appear with configuration options for the link.
   
   Link URL – The URL of the link (include http:// at the start for external websites)
   Target – Select if you want the link to open in a new window
   Title – Title of the link when a visitor hovers over it (a small tooltip will appear with the title)
   Class – Advanced. Specify a CSS class for the link
4. After setting the options, click the Insert button, and the highlighted text will change to the color blue with an underline to signify a link.

HTML Editor Links

To create a link using the HTML editor:

1. Highlight the text you want to link.
2. Click the link button on the toolbar.
   
3. A popup will appear asking for the link URL.
4. Type or paste in the URL, click the OK button and the highlighted text will be wrapped with the HTML link code.

Keeping the @ in links

If you try to put this (for example)

into the Add Link page, the @ gets removed and breaks the link.

Instead, put this there

If you re-edit the link the @ will go again so you need to redo it in that case.

When text is pasted it initially looks fine:

But looking at the HTML code you can see that it is full of additional tagging information.

The more you edit this post the worse the situation gets. Should a problem occur you will then be faced with a lot of work trying to figure out what has happened and how to fix it. The same code above can be written a lot more cleanly using the Church Web Werx visual editor:

Using Word Cleanly

If you decide that you still want to use Word then you should use the Word cleanup feature to remove all extraneous tags from your text. From the visual editor click on the show kitchen sink button:

Then click on the paste Word button:

A window will appear where you can insert your Word content.

When satisfied you can then click insert and it will clean the content and insert it into your post. Note that all your formatting will be removed so any styles will need to be added in afterwards.

To see a list of all of the shortcuts available, click the Help icon and then the Hotkeys tab.

Visual Editor

Powered by TinyMCE, the Visual Editor is the default mode for Church Web Werx sites and looks very similar to a word processor. The visual editor icons allow you to format text, change font alignment, insert bulleted and numbered lists, and more.

The Visual Editor can be disabled in the Personal Options section of your Church Web Werx user profile.

HTML Editor

The HTML editor has fewer options, but provides a way for you to edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. This editing mode is aimed at users who are comfortable working with HTML. When you need to paste in code from an outside source you can use the HTML editor to do it.

Note that  the HTML code you add must be well-formed.

Switching Editors

Switching between the Visual and HTML editing modes is easy. Just use the tabs directly above the right side of the editing area.

[ contact-form] (just leave out the space after the first “[“)

After publishing, a simple contact form asking for the sender’s name, email address, website and message will be displayed.

If the visitor is already logged into a Church Web Werx site, their profile information will be used and the contact form will be similar to the image below.

When someone submits a message through the form, you receive that message in an email.

Additional Info

Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email!).

You may get some spam, but you shouldn’t get a lot. All the messages people send to you through the contact form are filtered.

Visitors can type anything into the name and email boxes, so it is easy to fake an identity. If a logged in Church Web Werx member sends you a message, the end of the email will let you know that the message was sent by a verified user, and you can trust the name and email. Otherwise, you can’t trust anything. As with anything online, know that anonymity is both a curse and a blessing

The contact form cannot be used in the sidebar.

You can include any text or other allowed elements above or below the contact form.

The email is sent to the author of the post or page with the contact form in it. So each author on your blog can have his or her own contact form. You could have a text widget which links to each author’s contact page.

Click  in the Visual Editor toolbar to check your writing.

The proofreading feature checks spelling, misused words, grammar, and style. You can tell the type of error by its color.

• Misused words and spelling errors are red
• Grammar mistakes are green
• Style suggestions are blue

Click an error to see a menu with suggestions. Many errors have an Explain option that provides more information.

You may select Ignore suggestion to ignore a phrase once. Select Ignore always to have WordPress permanently ignore and unmark a phrase.

Proofreading Options

You can configure the proofreading feature by going to My Account -> Edit Profile.

From here you can edit the phrase ignore list and enable extra options in the proofreading feature. Make sure you click Update Profile at the bottom of the page to save your settings.

Grammar and Style Options

The proofreader applies many of its grammar rules by default. These extra options find patterns of poor writing style:

• Bias language may offend or alienate different groups of readers.
• Clichés are overused phrases with little reader impact.
• Complex phrases are words or phrases with simpler every-day alternatives.
• A double negative is one negative phrase followed by another. The negatives cancel each other out, making the meaning hard to understand.
• A hidden verb is a verb made into a noun. These often need extra verbs to make sense.
• Jargon phrases are foreign words and phrases that only make sense to certain people.
• Passive voice obscures or omits the sentence subject. Frequent use of passive voice makes your writing hard to understand.
• Phrases to avoid are wishy-washy or indecisive phrases.
• Redundant phrases can be shortened by removing an unneeded word.

Ignored Phrases

You may add a phrase to the ignore list by typing it into the text field and clicking Add. Click  to remove a phrase from the ignore list. A phrase is one or more words and the ignore list is case-sensitive.

Additional Info

Can I add words to the dictionary?

No, but you can add phrases to an ignore list so they don’t show up as errors.

The writing checker flagged a word as misused when it was used correctly, what happened?

The proofreading feature looks for commonly confused words and then decides, using the surrounding context, if another word is a better fit. Sometimes it gets it wrong.

The proofreading feature missed an error I made, what happened?

The proofreading feature is not a replacement for carefully reading what you write. It is a safety net meant to capture common mistakes and bring them to your attention. Finding every error is not possible with today’s technology.

There are several ways to login to your dashboard:

1. The Church Web Werx Homepage (http://churchwebwerx.com)
2. Your login page – e.g., http://demo1.churchwebwerx.com/wp-login.php or http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php
3. Using the link at the bottom of your homepage.