Step 1 – Navigate to the Exhibitions > Add New from the WordPress dashboard.
Step 2 – You will see a standard WordPress editor and post creation screen.
Step 3 – You can add a title and description to the exhibition. The expected controls for saving it as a draft or publishing it are present.
Step 4 – Just like regular WordPress posts you can use taxonomies.
- Categories: You can select/create categories that describe the type of the exhibition.
- Countries: You can select/create the city or country where the exhibition is located.
- Curators: You can select/create the curators for the exhibition.
- Tags: You can select/create the tags for the exhibition.
Step 5 – Upload a featured image from the ‘Featured Image’ field. Also, you can define a excerpt from the ‘Excerpt’ field.
Step 6 – Now scroll a little to the bottom of the page and you will see the exhibition details section. This area contains the exhibition details and the exhibition management controllers. This area is divided into sections for easier use.
- Details: This section includes general exhibition details, museum, start date, end date, duration, exhibition content boxes and other details.
- Media: In this section, you can add logo to the exhibition.
- Contact: In this section, you can enter contact information.
Step 7 – Currently, the exhibition is ready to be published, but you can turn the exhibition into a higher quality content by filling out the other fields. Below I will explain in detail what all the fields do, so that you can fill them in easily. You can also check out the demo of Loquet, it might give you a good idea.
- Details:
- Museum: You can enter the museum of the exhibition.
- Start Date: You can enter the start date of the exhibition.
- End Date: You can enter the end date of the exhibition.
- Duration: You can enter the duration of the exhibition.
- Content Sections: You can create more custom content areas besides content.
- Extra Details: Many details will appear in the exhibition details field of the exhibition. For example, opening hours, location, address, phone and many other details. However, you may want to add more or special information here. From here, you can create new information fields.
- Position of Extra Details: You can decide whether to add this new additional information before or after the existing information via this field.
- Media:
- Logo: You can upload the exhibition’s logo.
- Contact:
- Address: You can enter the address of the exhibition.
- Phone Number: You can enter the phone number of the exhibition.
- Email Address: You can enter the email address of the exhibition.
- Website: You can enter the website of the exhibition.
- Social Media Sites: You can enter the social media sites of the exhibition.
For all areas where you select the ‘Default’ option, the selection in the theme settings will be used automatically.
With these features, you can visualize your venue and better promote your content.
Step 8 – Now that everything is ready, you can press the ‘Publish’ button to publish your content.
