Comparative History of Black and Brown Schooling - MLK Jr Elementary v Ann Arbor School District

Prepared by Brandon Locke
Maintained by LEADR under the direction of Alice Lynn McMichael

Last Updated: 12/17/2017

TimelineJS

Great for telling linear, chronological stories
Google Account is needed (MSU email may not work)
You can watch this quick video tutorial
Media that you’re using must be hosted somewhere. You can upload an image to the Wordpress and then grab the direct image URL from your media library
To embed the iframe in Wordpress you’ll need to use the iframe shortcode plugin
Can upload images, link to images anywhere, video from Youtube and Vimeo, Google Maps, and social media. They don’t supply a list, but it’s probably the same as TimelineJS.
If you want to embed a TimeLine into Wordpress, grab the embed code at the bottom of the page (after following all other instructions) and paste into the text tab of the Wordpress editor, not the visual tab.

Timeline not appearing or some events are skipped
- The spreadsheet is not published see bottom of TimelineJS site for instructions
- Spreadsheet headers have been changed
- Dates are not entered chronologically
- Dates are formatted incorrectly
Media isn’t appearing
- For images, make sure the link is to the image (the URL ends in a filename like .jpg)
- The video host you’re using is not supported (you’ll need to use another host)

To log in, go to yoururl.leadr.msu.edu/admin
Set up a static home page
Make sure you’re creating pages, not posts
Change the theme by going to Appearance -> Themes
- Most themes will have a Customize button for fine-tuning
- You probably don’t want to use themes we’ve customized Divi Child, Divi for Foodways, mh-admin-theme, skt-full-width-little-egypt
Pages are automatically added to the menu - if you want to make one page drop down from another, select a parent page on the right side of the page you want to drop down
- You can also create a custom menu and click and drag pages however you’d like
If you Google “wordress [your problem]” you can find 10 solutions to most anything. Try to make sure the solution is from the past year or two and that it’s about wordpress.org or ‘self-hosted’ Wordpress as opposed to wordpress.com
If you’re using an iframe embed (from TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, YouTube, or anywhere else), make sure you paste the code into the Text tab of the editor, not the Visual tab
There’s a tutorial on the Divi theme here
If there are other themes or plugins you need, contact Brandon (blocke@msu.edu) to have it added.

Great for telling linear, spatial stories
Google Account is needed (MSU email may not work)
You may also do Gigapixel, which annotates an image (including historical maps)
You can watch this quick video tutorial
To embed the iframe in Wordpress you’ll need to use the iframe shortcode plugin
If you want to embed a StoryMap into Wordpress, hit ‘Share’ in the top right corner, grab the embed code, and paste into the text tab of the Wordpress editor, not the visual tab.

Any other questions - email blocke@msu.edu or stop into LEADR in 112 Old Horticulture Mon-Thu 10a-8p Fri 10a-1p