How to Change BusinessJournalism.org's Trending Topic featured spot.

1. How to change the
Trending Topic on
BusinessJournalism.org
HTML code editor in
WordPress

2. Live Trending Topic on Home Page

3. LOG ON as ADMIN
• From the Dashboard, go to
Settings.
• Find Trending Topic in the
Settings drop down.

4. HTML editor in WP

5. NAME your new TT
Put new label (name) here. This is
used when you look in the TT
archives

6. Switch to HTML version
Click
here

7. HTML version

8. Transfer HTML code to text editor
I use TextWrangler,
which is on our MACs.
Just copy &
paste

9. Work on new TT in Text Editor

10. Test new code
Replace old code
with new in TT
editor and click
UPDATE

11. There is NO PREVIEW
UPDATE makes changes go LIVE
immediately
• Check your changes quickly
• Make adjustments just like before
• If you throw off the code completely or
somehow impact other code on the Home Page,
you can quickly go back to a previous Trending
Topic in the archives.
• The next slides show you how to access the
archive.

12. Go back to the
Trending Topic editor
• From the Dashboard, go to
Settings.
• Find Trending Topic in the
Settings drop down.

13. Accessing the TT archives
This dropdown is full of past TTs.

14. The archives list
opens like this
1. Pick one
2. Click on UPDATE OPTIONS
3. Shazam. Archived TT
replaces your bad code.
4. Don’t worry. It happens.

15. TTs give you an opportunity to pull together related topics
or highlight something we want to promote.
You can update an older TT
quickly with a couple of new links
and a new piece of art.