- Click “Alerts” from the left side dark gray menu bar within the back end
- Click “Add Alert” button at the top left
- Title the bar something relevant to alert’s topic
- Enter your alert message as you would in a WordPress page, within the editor window area
- Button text will be your call to action like “Read More”
- Button URL is where you want the button to lead people
– Background color red is for Emergency/life-threatening situations or critical system or service outages
– Background color orange is for Non-life-threatening advisories or notices (that could impact residents negatively)
– Background color green is for Non-critical news, announcements, promotions - Start field is the time the alert goes live
- Stop field is the time the alert comes off the site
- Please leave all other fields alone
- Hit Publish when ready to save your alert bar
- Repeat process for any additional alerts you need to have up