Pages for our members
To add a walk you will need a photo (there are lots of photos on the website you might use, or you can upload your own).
If you are going to take bookings you will also need the web address of the booking page. This could be on Eventbrite or any site – for example you might be doing a walk for the Somers Town History Club and refer people to one of their pages. If you are starting from scratch and want to use Eventbrite please see the Using Eventbrite tab above.
If you are not going to take bookings then you can either provide the web address that contains more details of the walk (perhaps for a Mayor’s Charity Walk) or provide your email so people can contact you for more information.
First you need to login. If you are logged in you will see your name or email at the top right hand side of the screen.
To add a walk go to the Add New Walk page which should open in a new browser tab. This uses the web form method.
For experienced WordPress users it is possible to use WordPress to directly add a new walk (if you do this, the first time you should use screen options to simplify the wordpress form by selecting featured image, walks-field-group and author).
In both cases:
The walk title goes at the top (please keep it short).
You then have a large field that you can use for a description of the walk (you might like to cut and paste from your Eventbrite walk description)
Add areas your walk is in (using the categories buttons )
To add an image you need to use the set featured image link. Click on this and you will go into the media browser. Select the Pictures walks folder, and either find a suitable picture (you can search at the top right hand corner for areas or places) or drag and drop your picture onto the folder, and your picture will be uploaded and saved in the folder. Please make sure your picture has a meaningful name and/or title so you can find it easily again.
You now need to complete the Event Details.
For Date and Time for most walks you only need to set the start date and the start time and end time.
The Location/Venue should be set. Some locations are already setup (click on the down arrow to find them) or you can add a new location. Don’t worry about the extra fields – just focus on the location name. Strongly advise you to use underground or railway stations for starting points. The exact location doesn’t need to be here (it should be provided on Eventbrite, other web page or by mailing clients).
Links should be set. The Event Link should be used for Event booking links
Organizer should be set. Check to see if you are already on the system – and if not add yourself.
Cost should be set. Use standard price and concessions in brackets – £12 (£8) would be a normal entry. You could also say Free, or other wording like Charity donations (we suggest £10)
Your last stage (and one that is easy to forget) is to find the publish button and press it.
You should now have a functioning walks entry. Refresh your browser and look at the Walks page.
If you wish to edit, delete or duplicate the walk, please see the how to edit a walk tab.
Start by going to the Our Guides page which should open in a new tab and use the search form to find your entry. If you click on your name you will be taken to the guide profile.
You need to be logged in. Your email or name should be showing at the top right of the screen.
Then you have two choices. The simplest solution is to click on the green edit guide box at the bottom of the entry. This opens up a form for you to provide more information.
Alternatively if you are familiar with WordPress you can use the Edit Guide command which should be in the black line at the top of the screen (you might want to use screen options to customise what the screen contains – you only need featured image, guide-field-group and author ticked).
If you are logged in, and can’t see the edit box contact members@camdenguides.com as it is possible that permissions have been set incorrectly.
You can change any aspect of your guides entry. If this is the first time you have visited the page please check your contact details are correct, and also provide a ‘Guides headline’ – this will appear on your profile under your main profile picture. You should also add a description of yourself, and detail the kind of walks that you can offer. You may put weblinks in this section – but please don’t add media.
The featured image should be a best picture that you have of yourself, and ideally will show you clearly, guiding with happy customers, and also be landscape format. You should use a decent resolution photo (more than 256KB). The system resizes the photo to be the right size for our webpages.
On the forms interface, to add a new photo please remove the current one from your profile (there is a cross in the top right hand corner of the image that does this) and then use the Add Image link. There are two tabs on the dialogue box that opens – one allows you upload or to drag and drop a photo from your computer, and the other allows you to select a picture that is already in the media library.
Once you have finished making changes, please be sure to find and click the Update button.
If you find handling pictures too difficult, then email or post a photo to members@camdenguides.com and we will do it for you.
Start by going to the Events tab which should open in a new tab.
Find the walk you want to edit. If you click on the walk you are offered a range of options below the walk description. Bin will delete the walk. Edit allows you to change walk details including the date. Once you have finished making changes please remember to press the Update button.
There is also a Clone option. If you use this button it will create a new draft event that looks like the previous walk. Edit this event and change the date and time of the walk in the event details, and check that the Eventbrite link is correct.
Finally – if you are duplicating a walk, please remember to press the publish button.
Any changes you make should be reflected in the walks page.
To add a post, please go to the Add a New Post page which should open in a new tab.
Entries are similar to add a walk.
As well as text based posts, you can also add podcasts or video blog posts.
Please remember to use the Publish button when you have completed the post.
You will need to use a booking system like Eventbrite.co.uk – your event could be hosted on the CTGA Eventbrite pages (you will need an email address to be added to our account – contact members@camdenguides.com first), or your own Eventbrite page, or any other Event booking system (doesn’t have to be Eventbrite, but they’re probably the best at what they do). If you already have an event on an existing account (for example on Footprints) then use that – you don’t need to create another one.
One oddity about Eventbrite you need to be aware of is that an Eventbrite account requires a unique email address. So if you ever want to use more than one eventbrite account you need to have more than one email. One solution to this problem if you use gmail (and several other email providers) is to add a +description after the first part of your email. So say my email is dave@gmail.com – but I could access one eventbrite account by using dave+CTGA@gmail.com and another by using dave+FPOL@gmail.com. Mail to both accounts get delivered to dave@gmail.com but Eventbrite sees them as two separate email accounts.
Eventbrite have good information on how to create an events. They also have two different ways of creating events – the classic format, and a new format. I’d encourage you to use the new format.
You will need a landscape image for your event picture. This needs to be a picture to which you own the copyright or you know is available for public use. If you don’t have a good image then I’d recommend using Geograph to find one – most places and buildings in London have pictures – and they can all be used by you, providing you acknowledge the creator – and you can have this information embedded at the bottom of the picture automatically when you download the image.
Keep walk titles short and snappy. If they get longer, they may mess up formatting on our site.
For guided walks, you need to be very clear about where you are meeting. Strongly suggest meeting at an underground or railway station, and being clear where you will be standing. Many stations have multiple exits. So use something like ‘I will meet you on the left of exit 2 on Cowcross Street’.
On Eventbrite you may wish to duplicate an existing walk. If you do this, remember to remove the ‘Copy of ‘ from the walk title, and change the time/date of the walk. Also check when the tickets are available from (as this can be copied over from the previous event, resulting in a walk which looks right, but where the tickets can’t be booked).
It’s also important to provide good information on the mailings sent to customers. You need to use the management page to check that this is right. Please include a mobile phone contact number on the email that is sent to customers 48 hours before the walk is due to happen.
All the photos used on our site are in, or need to be added to the media library. If you look at the black column to the left you will see the Media library (or an icon that looks like a camera with music under it). If you click on this you will enter the Media Library. The media library already has lots of images of places and guides – so you may well find the picture you need. You can search for someones name or a place or area name to find out what is there already.
At some point you may want to add your own image – or a new photo of yourself. Click on the relevant folder first. If you want to upload a picture of you that you want to add as the thumbnail shown at the top of the guides profile use the Pictures thumbnails folder. If you want to add a large picture as the key image on your guides profile use the Pictures profiles folder. If you want to add a picture for a walk then use the Pictures walks folder.
The size of the image isn’t important as large images will be resized (but for walks and guide pictures, if you picture is less than 250kB in size it is likely to be too small to show properly), Please use a name that makes sense to other people – so if it is a picture of you, title it with your name. For a walk, title it according to what it is showing.
Pictures (other than the thumbnail images) should be landscape. The main profile picture should ideally show you in action guiding with a clear view of you, and happy customers.
If you need a picture for a place that isn’t in our existing set of walks pictures, and you don’t have your own, then use Geograph to find one – most London places, buildings and plaques have a Geograph image. You need to ensure that the photographer is credited, but Geograph can embed the acknowledgement in small print at the bottom of the photo and you should use this facility.
To use a photo, you need to set the featured image option on a walk or a guide page.