{"id":492,"date":"2014-12-21T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T11:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:18:47","slug":"news-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the SIR Branch Webmaster&#8217;s Quick Start Kit!<\/p>\n<p>This is a fully-functional branch website to give you a quick start using WordPress. We can make a copy of it for your branch and you can begin editing it. To see how branch webmasters have created sites based on this, check out the websites for <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/branch95\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Branch 95<\/a>. There are lots of tips and techniques on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc.org\/webmaster-resources\/\">SIR webmaster resources page<\/a>. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc.org\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact system administrator Alan Baker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A SIR <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc.org\/website-banners-and-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banner<\/a> with the SIR logo and the colors and fonts <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc.org\/sir-branded-marketing-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended<\/a> by the SIR Branding Committee. More banners to choose from are <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc.org\/banners-and-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/weaver-xtreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weaver Xtreme<\/a> theme<\/li>\n<li>Sample web pages for activities, newsletter, officers, committees<\/li>\n<li>Sample <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOLF-WORLD-PICTURE.jpg\">images<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-content\/uploads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media library<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sample <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">menu structure<\/a> with subheadings<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/support\/wordpress-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Block edito<\/a>r for pages that have side-by-side elements<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/support\/classic-editor-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic editor<\/a> for pages that are primarily text<\/li>\n<li>Selected WordPress <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plugins<\/a> for:\n<ul>\n<li>Copying this website to your branch website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/updraftplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backing up<\/a> your site automatically<\/li>\n<li>Reliable email delivery<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpforms-lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Site <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the site has been copied to your branch&#8217;s folder, be sure to <strong>configure these options<\/strong> for your branch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change site title and tagline in Settings &gt; General<\/li>\n<li>Change administrator email address in Settings &gt; General<\/li>\n<li>Configure WP Mail SMTP as described <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1btdnT_-mJeZBjyCJEj6ARNZpC3rydm_ZTe13I1_oO-A\/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9es0dirma2m0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Set contact form&#8217;s Send-To Email Address in WPForms &gt; Contact Us &gt; Edit &gt; Settings &gt; Notifications<\/li>\n<li>Configure UpdraftPlus for offsite backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the SIR Branch Webmaster&#8217;s Quick Start Kit! This is a fully-functional branch website to give you a quick start using WordPress. We can make a copy of it for your branch and you can begin editing it. To <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirinc2.org\/starter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}