Section Pages
Section pages are the two-column pages used for the main page of the top-level sections, such as What We Do. They don't need to be edited often, but when they do they can be tricky.
The problem is that Section Pages are victims of a bug. Section
Pages have two rich-text areas, the right column and the left column,
but Kupu, the WYSIWYG editor, can't show up twice on the same admin
page. There are a number of ways we could fix this, but we edit these
pages so rarely that we haven't bothered to do so :(.
The solution is to edit these pages in raw HTML. Admittedly, this is less than ideal:
- Go to your personal preferences page - click the Preferences link in the blue bar, or click here: personal prefs
- Where it says Content Editor, change the pulldown menu from "Kupu" to "None." This will turn off WYSIWYG editing. Note that for most normal pages, this won't work the way you'd expect; using the "View Source" button in Kupu is a better way to edit raw code on most pages.
- Go to the Section Page you want to edit, and click the Edit tab.
- You should see the code for both columns in the Left Column and Right Column fields. Even if you don't know HTML, you should be able to make text edits simply by changing the text and ignoring the rest of the code.
- Save your edits by hitting the Save button at the bottom of the Edit screen.
- Preview the page and re-edit as necessary.
- Once you've finished, go back to your personal preferences and change Content Editor back to "Kupu."
(Note to future developers: the two easiest ways to fix this would be 1. To make the two rich-text areas appear on different pages, by assigning a different schemata to one of them; or 2. To make this page work with CompositePack like the flexible subsection pages. Option 1 is quickest and easiest, but option 2 might be better if these were going to change often.)