BPFP News & Events Guidelines

Groups are encouraged to post announcements about upcoming events, as well as write ups of past events, links to news articles, etc.
Please do not post "too much:" If you are consistently posting once a week, try to figure out a way to combine these posts into once- or twice- a month posts. (It's OK to post more than once a week if you an emergency arises, but try to avoid this.)

If your group does not have a login name and password, sign up here. Registration is not instantaneous, we will call you to confirm you represent the group. Once you are registered, your posts will appear as soon as you post them.

Visitors can find your posts in two ways: Through the site's 'home page' or by visiting your group's 'site sub-home page' within the site. The 'Category' links in the side menu allow visitors to find only those posts made by a particular group—in effect the group's 'site sub-home page.' (for example, here's the Path Wanderers' site sub-home page).

As more entries are made to the site, the new ones are listed at the top, and older ones 'scroll off' the bottom. Older posts are retained in the site, and can be found through the archives, category, or a general search.

No. This site is designed to only allow those registered to post. It is here for BPFP affiliate groups to post their news and events only.

You'll need an account to post. If you don't have one, sign up here (to avoid spam posts, this is not automated, it may take a day or two for your account to become active). Once you have an account, from the site home page (this link will open a new window so you can get back to this page and still keep the posting window open) click on the "Login" link at the bottom of the right column.

Once logged in, click on the "Write" tab (below the Berkeley Partners for Parks title), then complete the following:

• Give your post a Title
• Categories: Check the box for your group (please uncheck Berkeley Partners for Parks, this is the default page). See "How to post to a calendar" below for information about the "Events" category.
• Post: Include all the information about your post here.
• Click Publish when you have finished, click Publish.
  • (You can Save as a draft if you don't want to post it yet but want to come back later to finish it—most folks won't use this.)

The "Post" section has several "Quicktags" above it that will help you format the text and add links (if you don't want to use these, you can complete a post without them). The most common Quicktags used are:

• b makes text bold
• i makes text italic
• link will open a window asking you for the web address of the site you want to link to (best is to copy and paste the address from your web browser open in another window).
• img will open a window to add an image. The image must exist on another web site, and you'll need to know the address of the image.
• ul starts a bullet list, but you need to use li for each list item

All of these formatting will insert the html code in the "Post" area for you. All you need to remember is to "close" the format by clicking on the quicktag when you are finished typing the words you want formatted. You will see a slash (/) in front of any quicktags that haven't been "closed" yet.