Transferring Blog Posts
Transferring blog posts from the Medium to the redpepper.land/blog could be one of the assignments that you are tasked with during your time here.
Alyssa or Jesse can log you into the redpepper blog so that you have access to the following steps:
How To
Step 1: Pull up two tabs on your computer, the Medium article and the WordPress editing version of the rp blog
Step 2: Click "add new" to start to create the blog post
Step 3: Using copy & paste, grab the title from the Medium and place it where it says "Add Title" on WordPress
Step 4: Grab the copy (paragraph by paragraph) from Medium and start adding it to WordPress where it says "Start writing or type / to choose a block"
Step 5: Once you've added all of the copy, move to the sidebar on the right of your screen
Step 6: Check off whichever box applies to the article (Culture, Marketing, Garage, Innovation, etc.)
Step 7: Add tags, you can add your own or simply go to the bottom of the Medium article to find ones to use
Step 8: Set featured image, save the cover photo from Medium and use the same one for WordPress
Step 9: Excerpt: copy this code
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by <strong>Alyssa Kalams</strong>
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Building the industry bookshelf one recommended read at a time.
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and paste it where it says "excerpt". Change the name of the author - in this case, Alyssa Kalams. Also change the sentence at the end of the code to be the sub-header that was in the article.
Evergreen Content
Evergreen: "The word evergreen is most often used by editors to describe certain kinds of stories that are always of interest to readers.Evergreen content is content that is always relevant—much like the way evergreen trees retain their leaves all year around."
Here is a list of articles that were compiled to be "evergreen content". Feel free to add more as time goes on to continue to incorporate previous material into our content calendar.