Mr. Wood & Team Guide

This guide is for Mr. Wally Wood and approved team members. Use Easy Upload for day-to-day article submissions. Use the WordPress backend only for the additional tools assigned to your account.

These are different credentials. Your Contributor ID/PIN does not log you into WordPress. Do not enter an administrator password or connection Application Password in Easy Upload. Ask The Katy News for your own access details.

This guide contains general instructions only, not your ID, PIN or saved articles. It can be read without logging in.

The Katy News keeps publishing, sponsor management, analytics, layout, backup and connection controls. Selecting an article category is different from managing the category list. Credential administration remains with The Katy News.

Seeing this guide does not grant any additional access. Contact The Katy News if an expected tool is missing.

1. Open Easy Upload. Enter your assigned Contributor ID and PIN.
2. Enter the Article Title and choose a Content Category. The title, category and article body are required for submission.
3. Write a Short Summary for the article card, then paste or write the complete text in Article Body. Keep a separate copy of your work.
4. Complete the optional SEO fields and choose an SEO / News Category when appropriate. Enter SEO Tags separated by commas.
5. Add an individual episode link in Optional Video URL and a supporting link in Optional Source / Read More URL, if needed.
6. Choose a Featured Image, or leave it empty to use the configured default article image.
7. Use Preview, then Save Draft or Submit for Review. Wait for the result before closing the page.

The Easy Upload form accepts article text and an optional photo. It does not have a PDF/Word document upload field. Paste the article text into Article Body rather than attaching a document here.

1. Click the file picker beside Featured Image.
2. Choose a JPEG, PNG or WebP image, no larger than 5 MB.
3. Save or submit the article. Check for Featured image uploaded successfully in the result.

If no custom image is provided, the channel uses its default article image. An uploaded featured image takes priority.

Check the result, not just the preview. Preview reviews text; it does not upload the file or confirm that the image was saved. The browser clears the file picker after a form reload. A successfully attached image is already saved with the article; select the file again only when replacing it or retrying a failed upload.

If an image error appears, the article may still have been saved or submitted. Keep the article reference and send the image to The Katy News rather than repeatedly submitting copies of the same article.

The Katy News can review and change the final SEO information, category choices and byline. These fields do not guarantee a ranking, subscriber count or number of visits.

Continue a draft: Keep the returned form open to edit and save that draft again, or submit it when ready. Re-enter your PIN for another save/submit action; the PIN is not filled back into the form. Note the Draft ID shown after saving.

There is not a no-login “My Drafts” list in this version. Opening a fresh Easy Upload page does not reopen an earlier draft. To recover it later, use your permitted backend article list or ask The Katy News to locate the Draft ID. Do not assume a new submission will update the old draft.

After a successful submission, do not click Submit again to check the status. A fresh submit may create another local article.

1. Your local article is saved as Pending Review.
2. The form attempts to send a copy to The Katy News as part of the same submission.
3. If delivery succeeds, The Katy News receives it for publishing approval. An editor still decides whether and when to publish.
4. If delivery is queued, keep your local article reference. Automatic retry does not require you to log in again or submit another copy.

Queued is not delivered or published. The Katy News administrator monitors the connection and handles technical problems. If the message remains queued or a correction is needed, contact the administrator with the article title and result message.

When using the backend editor instead of Easy Upload, save first and use The Katy News — Editorial Approval → Send for Approval if that control is available to your account. The automatic send described above is specifically part of Easy Upload's Submit for Review action.

This tool is normally available to the lead contributor and authorized Katy News staff. Log in with your WordPress credentials, not your PIN.

1. Open Video Library.
2. Choose Auto for the configured YouTube channel, Manual for selected episode links, or Mixed for both.
3. Check Configured YouTube Channel. Change it only when the intended channel is changing.
4. For selected videos, enter a Title, Direct video URL and optional Description in a row. Clear a row to remove it.
5. Set the heading, intro and Initially show count, then click Save Video Library.
6. Open the public channel and test the thumbnail and Play button. Viewers can use Load More Videos to reveal additional available cards.

Use an individual youtube.com/watch?v=… episode link, a supported Vimeo video or Brighteon video link—not a channel homepage, a general website or an iframe pasted as text. Supported hosted MP4/WebM/M4V files must be on this site.

Auto mode attempts the configured channel feed. If that feed is unavailable, the existing fallback video list may appear; do not assume every visible card is a fresh upload. Load More reveals available fetched/saved items, up to the current gallery limit of 24; it is not an unlimited channel archive.

The in-site player depends on the host allowing playback. If an embed cannot play, use the separate original-video link and report the episode URL to The Katy News.

Send The Katy News the intended broadcast time and the actual live-video URL once it is available. A YouTube channel link is not the same as an individual live-video link.

The Katy News controls the hero live status, live-player settings and optional YouTube auto-check configuration. Do not mark an old recording as live. If the feature image remains visible, ask the administrator to check the direct live URL and live settings.

1. Open Comment Approval and select Pending.
2. Read the comment and the article/discussion it belongs to. The private email is available for moderation; do not publish it.
3. Choose Approve, Keep Pending, Spam or Trash.
4. Click Apply. Only approved comments become visible.
5. Use the Approved, Spam and Trash filters to review other queues.

Readers enter a display name, email and comment. Email format is checked, but that does not verify ownership or a reader's identity. New channel comments are held for approval.

The video section has a shared Comment on the Videos discussion, not a separate thread automatically created for every episode. Ask viewers to mention the episode title when context is needed. The current public form accepts new comments, not threaded replies.

Ordinary team members do not get moderation rights by default. The channel-wide comments switch and test-comment tools belong to The Katy News.

1. Use your lead-contributor account to open Team Access.
2. Under Add Team Member, enter the person's email and display name.
3. Select only the submission/media permissions needed. Keep the login-notification checkbox selected when a new user should receive a WordPress setup email.
4. Click Add or Update Team Member.
5. Under Current Team Members, adjust permissions or Active status, then click Save Permissions.

Remove Access removes the team association; it does not delete the person's WordPress account. Contact The Katy News if they also have a separate Easy Upload ID/PIN that needs revocation.

You cannot make someone a Katy News administrator or grant publishing/sponsor/backup rights here. The Katy News administrator assigns Contributor IDs and PINs separately. Do not share your own PIN with your team.

1. Open Easy Upload and expand Change or reset my PIN.
2. Enter your Contributor ID and current PIN.
3. Enter and confirm a new PIN containing exactly eight numbers.
4. Use the form's PIN-change button and read the result.

This is a change using your current PIN, not an email-based forgotten-PIN reset. If you do not know the current PIN, contact The Katy News administrator for a reset. Do not send your old PIN in a comment or article.

After too many failed attempts the form asks you to wait 15 minutes. Use only your own assigned credentials. Changing this PIN does not change your WordPress password.

Final check: Correct title/category, complete article, relevant tags, working episode/source links, permitted photo and a success/result message saved for reference.

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