Documentation

SmartPost Templates is an open-source WordPress plugin. It is a powerful template builder and intuitive authoring tool that is user centered. No programming or coding knowledge required.

The help documentation is currently split into two sections: components and widgets.

SmartPost post components are modular content "boxes" — they literally look like boxes with things in them. There are various types of components, i.e. video, photo, attachments, and they all have there own interactive features and settings that users and developers can tweak.

SmartPost widgets are WordPress widgets that come with SmartPost. The most important one right now is the "SP QuickPost" widget as that allows users to create new posts on the front-end based off the templates defined in the back-end.

Custom Widget Logic – (additional plugin)

This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. The text field lets you use [ … ]

General Component Info

The First thing that makes SmartPost so easy to use is the ability to create, edit, publish, and preview your posts from the front end of your site. On a [ … ]

Video

To add a video to your post, click on the “Add Video” button shown below. Once clicked, you should see the following. The two unique parts of this component [ … ]

Photo

To add a photo to your post, click on the “Add Photo” button shown below. When you click on the “Add Photo” button you should see the following. The [ … ]

Attachments

To add an attachment to your post, click on the add attachments button shown below. Once clicked, you should see the following. The unique parts of this component are [ … ]

Links

To add a link to your post, click on the add link button shown below. Once clicked, you should see the following. The unique part of this component is [ … ]

Gallery

The SmartPost gallery component is used to embed a gallery of images into your post. Click the button indicated below to add a gallery component. Once clicked you should [ … ]

Content

The SmartPost content feature is used for basic content, such as text. The button should be located as follows. Once clicked you should see the following Highlighted in [ … ]

SP My Posts

Once you've located this widget, click on the down arrow indicated by the green arrow to see the widget settings. The title is the title which will be displayed [ … ]

SP Post Settings

Once you've located this widget, click on the down arrow indicated by the green arrow to see the widget settings. The title is the title which will be displayed [ … ]