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World Class Academy Website Handbook

The front door to how the WCA website works. If you are new, start with How the website is built and The three rules. If you have a specific job to do, jump to its guide from the sidebar or the search box at the top.

New here? Read these three, in order

  1. How the website is built, the one idea that makes the rest make sense.
  2. The three rules, the ideas behind almost every task.
  3. Where everything lives, the map of the admin.

The short version

You do not edit this website by dragging things around a page. You fill in forms in the WordPress admin, and the site assembles the pages for you.

One hard rule

If you ever see a button called Edit with Bricks, do not click it. That is the page builder, and it is easy to break. Nothing in this handbook needs it. The full list of things to leave alone is on Never do these.

The mental model

Think of it like addressed mail. Each Destination, Schedule, and Faculty Member is an envelope with an address on it: which academy, which quarter, which year. The academy page is a mailbox that automatically gathers every envelope addressed to it. You never sort the mail into the box by hand. You write the right address, and each item lands in the right place on its own.

Those three parts of the address are the whole game, and they are explained in The three rules. Read that page once and most of the site stops being mysterious.

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