{# # GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting # Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 MediaGoblin contributors. See AUTHORS. # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . #} {% extends "mediagoblin/base.html" %} {% import "/mediagoblin/utils/wtforms.html" as wtforms_util %} {%- block mediagoblin_head -%} {%- endblock mediagoblin_head %} {%- block mediagoblin_content %}

{% trans %}How does this work?{% endtrans %}

{% trans %}How to feature media?{% endtrans -%}

{% trans %} Go to the page of the media entry you want to feature. Copy it's URL and then paste it into a new line in the text box above. There should be only one url per line. The url that you paste into the text box should be under the header describing how prominent a feature it will be (whether Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary). Once all of the media that you want to feature are inside the text box, click the Submit Query button, and your media should be displayed on the front page. {% endtrans %}

{%- trans %}Is there another way to manage featured media?{% endtrans %}

{% trans %} Yes. If you would prefer, you may go to the media homepage of the piece of media you would like to feature or unfeature and look at the bar to the side of the media entry. If the piece of media has not been featured yet you should see a button that says "Feature". Press that button and the media will be featured as a Primary Feature at the top of the page. All other featured media entries will remain as features, but will be pushed further down the page.

If you go to the media homepage of a piece of media that is currently featured, you will see the options "Unfeature", "Promote" and "Demote" where previously there was the button which said "Feature". Click Unfeature and that media entry will no longer be displayed on the front page, although you can feature it again at any point. Promote moves the featured media higher up on the page and makes it more prominent and Demote moves the featured media lower down and makes it less prominent. {% endtrans %}

{% trans -%} What is a Primary Feature? What is a Secondary Feature?{% endtrans -%}

{% trans %} These categories just describe how prominent a feature will be on your front page. Primary Features are placed at the top of the front page and are much larger. Next are Secondary Features, which are slightly smaller. Tertiary Features make up a grid at the bottom of the page.

Primary Features also can display longer descriptions than Secondary Features, and Secondary Features can display longer descriptions than Tertiary Features.{% endtrans %}

{% trans %}How to decide what information is displayed when a media entry is featured?{% endtrans %}

{% trans %} When a media entry is featured, the entry's title, it's thumbnail and a portion of its description will be displayed on your website's front page. The number of characters displayed varies on the prominence of the feature. Primary Features display the first 512 characters of their description, Secondary Features display the first 256 characters of their description, and Tertiary Features display the first 128 characters of their description. {% endtrans %}

{% trans -%} How to unfeature a piece of media?{% endtrans -%}

{% trans %} Unfeature a media by removing its line from the above textarea and then pressing the Submit Query button. {% endtrans %}

{% trans %}CAUTION:{% endtrans %}

{% trans %} When copying and pasting urls into the above text box, be aware that if you make a typo, once you press Submit Query, your media entry will NOT be featured. Make sure that all your intended Media Entries are featured. {% endtrans %}

{% endblock %}