Communications

At its heart, your Cadenza website is all about Communication. You must communicate with members, parents, supporters, your community and maybe even the whole world! Cadenza incorporates several avenues of communication including News, Post content and Notification Bars. Learn how to leverage the power of each to form effective Communications.

News Overview

In Cadenza, News is simply another Post category. Posts are fundamental to how WordPress functions, that is, they are used for creating new content for publication on your website. You can create other kinds of posts and assign them to other post categories, but for Cadenza, News serves a primary function, especially on your home page. With any music organization, it…

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Adding News

News is a place to create articles and posts about your organization, like current events, announcements, or feature articles. To create a News post, do one of the following: Click the Post News  quick link at the top of your Dashboard Navigate to Posts in your Dashboard. You can hover over the link, then click Add New Go to All Posts,…

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Posts Overview

Posts content pages are fundamental to how WordPress works. Posts are different from Pages in that Posts are hierarchal, related content, like a blog, or collections of lessons, or articles about related subjects, like composers, or performances you’ve given. Pages are generally stand-alone pages of content. Posts are organized by Categories. each category should represent a different collection of posts…

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Post Categories

Each post in WordPress is filed under one or more Categories. This aids in navigation and allows posts to be grouped with others of similar content. Each Category may be assigned to a Parent Category, allowing you to set up a hierarchy within the Category structure. In creating Categories, recognize that each Category Name must be unique. Thus, even if…

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Adding Posts

To create a Post, do one of the following: Navigate to Posts in your Dashboard. You can hover over the link, then click Add New Go to All Posts, and click the Add New” button at the top of the page. Enter a Title for your Post in the field that says “Enter title here”. Then, enter the content of…

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Notification Bar Overview

A Notification Bar, sometimes called an Alert Bar, is a special element that can be programmed to appear on your Cadenza website which can contain important messages or special content, in which to draw extra attention. Use Notification Bars to alert members about special events, or last-minute schedule changes. Or add them as “calls-to-action” for directing visitors to certain areas…

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Creating Notification Bars

You can add Notification Bars based on one of 10 Pre-available Templates, or create your own Custom Template. Adding and configuring either is the same except that with Custom Templates, you have the ability to select your own colors, to match your color scheme. Notification Bars are highly customizable simply by selecting the options that you wish to include. Template Based…

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Notification Bar Settings

General Settings Enable/Disable – This important settings essentially turns Notification Bars “on” or “off”. regardless of where you have placed your Notification Bars on your cadenza website, toggling this option off disables all of them at once. Mobile Enable/Disable – This setting is important for viewers using mobile devices. Consider whether you want or need your Notification Bars to appear…

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Displaying Notification Bars

Notification Bars can appear on individual pages or posts of your Cadenza website. You can also select a Default Notification Bar to appear on your entire site, only on your home page, or on only specific pages. In order to display a Notification Bar, you will need to create and configure one first. To select and assign a Default Notification…

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