Staff Documentation

Seminole Theatre ★ Staff Reference
Internal Documentation

Internal documentation

How the site works — one guide per system.

These pages walk through every content system on seminoletheatre.org: the event calendar, the featured posts, the show-run landing pages, and the homepage slider. Each guide is written for the operations team with the admin browser open — precise fields, exact specs, no fluff.

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Guide 01

Signing In

Start here. The login URL, which account to use, resetting a lost password, understanding your role, and the security practices to follow on a site without two-factor authentication.

Covers: login URL · personal vs. shared account · password reset · dashboard tour · editor vs. admin · security · troubleshooting
Guide 02

Editing Events

The complete field-by-field walkthrough for creating and editing events on the calendar — from the show name to the Tixr URL to the Google search snippet.

Covers: event fields · SEO · multi-date shows · image specs · playbills · pre-publish checklist
Guide 03

Featured Posts

Creating regular posts that appear on the homepage’s Featured Shows section — the custom hub metabox, layout options, and the automatic behaviors playbill posts get for free.

Covers: post vs event vs show run · Featured Show Hub metabox · layout options · playbill categories · SEO
Guide 04

Show Runs

The custom system for multi-night productions — one poster, one synopsis, one dates grid with a Buy Tickets button per performance. Auto Event Ended detection.

Covers: Show Run CPT · dates repeater · synopsis & credits · shortcode · embedding · maintenance
Guide 05

Slider Revolution

The homepage rotating hero — swapping images, updating headlines, adding a slide for a new show, removing slides for closed runs. Image specs and Cloudflare cache purge.

Covers: slider editor · slide editing · image specs · reordering · cache purge
Guide 06

Image Standards

Aesthetics, speed, and consistency for every image on the site — slider hero, event posters, show landing pages, playbill covers, inline photos. Specs, compression, alt text.

Covers: dimensions per context · format · compression · alt text · preparation tools · quick reference
Guide 07

Google Business Profile

Creating and managing your GBP — the panel that shows up in Google Search and Maps. Verification, first-time setup, ongoing management, and how this site’s automation ties in.

Covers: profile creation · verification · setup · weekly/monthly cadence · site integration · pitfalls
Guide 08

GBP Auto-Post Feature

How the site pushes to Google Business Profile — editing hours & description from wp-admin, opt-in event auto-posts with title+description fields, the weekly digest, and how updates/unpublishes sync to GBP.

Covers: business info panel · event checkbox · required fields · state machine (create/update/delete) · manual composer · weekly digest · troubleshooting
Guide 09

Writing Event Descriptions

The writing companion to the Editing Events guide — the four-paragraph template, the field-by-field walkthrough, three worked examples, and the checklist that makes an event description AI-Overview-friendly, screen-reader-friendly, and audience-friendly.

Covers: template · field guide · worked examples · Show Type · CTA button · featured image · pre-publish checklist

Guide Conventions

  • Every guide reads top to bottom, with a numbered sequence that mirrors the actual admin workflow.
  • Fields tagged REQUIRED are ones without which the feature won’t work — always fill them.
  • Sidebar TOCs let you jump directly to the section you need — bookmark deep-links if you use one guide often.
  • Guides can be printed cleanly from your browser if you prefer a paper reference.
  • These pages are marked noindex — search engines skip them, so they don’t appear in public Google results.