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Research Topic/Author

In order to create the research topics and research authors, there are few steps that are . needed to be followed in the correct manner. If we fail to do so, you might end up not seeing the reserach topic/author on the listing page. Hence, the name of the research that you create in the backend and the title of the page you chose should be exactly the same without a difference of a dot, comma or hyphen.

  • In order to create a research topic we, need to create a reserach topic, you would have to navigate the “Research” and then click on “Research topics”
  • Now, you would have to add the Name, Slug, Parent research type(if any), and description of the reserach topic that you wish to create
  • Click on “Add the new reserach” and this will get added to the list of research topics
  • For research author, the archive pages are taken directly from “Meet the expert”, hence backend changes are not required, we will directly create the author page

  • Click on “Add new” to create a new research
  • Create a research page and give the title to the reserach page exactly same as the research topic that you selected during creating a new research topic
  • From the template dropdown, you are required to select “Research by topics”

  • Click on “New” and then select “Page”
  • For creating the author page, you would have to give the name of the page as the name of the author, let us not tweak the name of the author and let it remain as is.
  • From the template dropdown you would have to select “Research by authors”

Publish a page

Depending on the access level, you can publish a page on the website.

  1. Login via the access level you have  
  2. You will find a publish button on the right-hand side of the WordPress dashboard, just click on the same and it’s done. If  you find the button greyed out, ensure your access level is meant to publish the document  

Edit a published page:

  1. Open the page on the website that you wish to edit 
  2. At the top end of the page, you will find an option to edit the page, click on the button and start editing 
  3. Click on “Update” once done. Note that all published pages once edited will reflect the changes instantly. 

Schedule a page:

  1. Click on the settings options on the right-hand pane 
  2. Go to the Page section  
  3. Click on the date and time mentioned in front of the publish option 
  4. Select the date and time according to your wish, given the fact the time zone will depend upon the server/website’s time
  5. Hit “Schedule” once done 

Turn a published page to a draft:

  1. Open the link of the page that needs to be unpublished 
  2. Hit the “Switch to draft” button to unpublish the webpage. Once turned to draft the page won’t be accessible on the live site. 

Move a page to trash – for only admins:

  1. Once you have the settings options open, click on the page button 
  2. Hover down and you will find the “Move to trash” button