Content is added to exhibit pages using "widgets". Each widget type provides different functionality, but there are four main categories:

  • Text widgets:
    • Text Widget: The default widget for an exhibit page and provides limited formatting (bold, italic, links). Each text widget can contain one paragraph of text.
    • Heading Widget: Adds an h2 heading to an exhibit page.
    • List Widget: Adds an unordered list to an exhibit page.
    • Quote Widget: Formats text for blockquote display.
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  • Externally hosted resources: Curators responsibility to ensure these resources are accessible (see: Accessibility for more guidance).
  • Exhibit resources:
    • Exhibit items: A handful of page widgets that allow curators to embed exhibit items to a page with different layouts.
      • Item Row Widget
      • Item Embed Widget
      • Item Carousel Widget
      • Item Slideshow Widget
      • Item Grid Widget
    • Browse Categories Widget: WIP
    • Browse Group Categories Widget: WIP
    • Search Results Widget: Displays saved search results of exhibit items in list, gallery, masonry, and/or slideshow layouts.
    • Pages Widget: Adds page thumbnails with links to other pages in your exhibit.

How to Edit an Exhibit Page (Home, Featured, About)

  1. Log in to your CUL Online Exhibits account
  2. Navigate to the exhibit page you'd like to edit — make sure you have the right user role (Curator or Admin) to edit the exhibit — and click "Edit" in the top right.

    This button should bring you to a page that looks like:

    If you're editing a page for the first time, the big white box in the center (and in the screenshot above) is an example of the default page widget, the Text Widget.

    To change the page widget type: click on the circled blue + icon to view all possible types:

    To add a new page widget: click the light grey + icon at the top or bottom of any existing widgets.
    To delete a page widget: click the light grey x icon in the upper right corner of the widget.
    To reorder page widgets: click and drag the upper right corner of a widget (above the x icon) to wherever you want to move it on the page.
  3. Remember to click the button to "Save changes" at the bottom of the page

How to Format Text

Text in any of the Text widgets (Text, Heading, List, Quote) or for any of the item widgets that contain a text box labelled "Text" (e.g. Item Row widget) have limited formatting options: bold, italics, link, unlink. To access the formatting options, highlight the text you want to format:

The Text widgets can also process basic Markdown (but not HTML), if you'd like additional formatting options beyond the existing widget types and simple formatter: Markdown Guide: Basic Syntax

Additional Documentation

Spotlight Wiki: https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/wiki/Page-widgets


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