This is How You Publish a Secret Songs Club Blog Post
I. SET UP
- Aaron will have sent you a folder of assets.
- Open the folder. It should look something like below.
- Click here and log in to the AE WordPress dashboard.
- Click on “Posts” then “All Posts.”
- Look for the latest Secret Song post (Secret Songs Club #8 in this example) and click on “clone” underneath the title. This will create a new draft and you will use this as a template.
- Open the latest Secret Songs draft by clicking on the title. The draft should be at the top of the list.
II. ADD TEXT & MEDIA
- Swap out the Secret Song number for the current one you’re going to publish.
- Copy and paste the title from the plain text document (it’s important that it’s the plain text document, otherwise the formatting will alter).
- Replace the current audio with the audio Aaron gave you by first clicking the player bar and clicking on “edit.”
- Click on “Replace Audio.”
- Click on “Upload Files.”
- Find the audio file and select it.
- Select the current audio and click “Replace.”
- Click on “Update.”
- Now, let’s replace the text, starting with lyrics.
- Copy and paste the lyrics from the plain text document (again, make sure it’s the plain text doc).
- Now swap out the “About This Song” text.
- Copy and paste the “About this Song” from the plain text document.
- If available, swap out song credits and photo credits, etc. If unavailable, delete the placeholder/template text.
- In the top right-hand corner, click on the “Document” tab.
- Note the URL Slug (we’re going to change it).
- Change the URL slug to “secret” plus whatever number song you’re on, without spaces.
- Now let’s replace the featured image. Click on “Replace Image.”
- Click on “Upload Files.”
- Click on “Select Files.”
- Find and choose the image from the assets folder.
- Select the newly uploaded photo, and click on “Set featured image.”
- You should now see a thumbnail of the new featured image as below.
III. PREVIEW & PUBLISH
- Click on “Preview.”
- Review the post and make sure the formatting looks like below.
- In the top right-hand corner under “Discussion,” make sure “Allow comments” is unticked.
- Next to “Visibility” click on “Public.”
- Select “Password Protected” and use the name of the song, without spaces, as the password.
- Click on “Immediately.”
- Schedule the publish date to the Wednesday at 10pm CST. (I do this so it will be live by 6am CST, Thursday.)
- Click “Schedule.”
- Click on “Schedule” (again).
- Make sure you see this confirmation (disregard the post address url — we won’t be using that).
- DONE. You did it! Give yourself a hug for me.
Love,
Aaron