In order to keep your website as up to date and as tidy as possible, we have devised a list of recommended tasks you can carry out to help achieve this. This can be done on a termly basis or at the end of each academic year, it’s up to you!
Firstly, we recommend removing any old and outdated news posts by clicking into the posts tab, hovering over the ones you’d like to delete and clicking the Bin button to move it to the bin. You can use the filters at the top to search by month, for example, and use the bulk select tool to do this quickly for a number of posts. We recommend repeating this process for Newsletters, you can search and filter in the exact same way.
Once you have removed this old content, you can also go through the media library and ensure any dormant content, such as images or documents, are also deleted. Especially if it is linked to deleted posts. You can again, search and filter using the options at the top and use the bulk select tool to remove lots of media items. Removing old media content will not only help keep your website fast but easier to find content and means you are less likely to it your storage limit.
We recommend making sure your media library is always kept organised with the media items inside a suitable folder. Having large amounts of media items in the root of the library (or all in one folder) causes it to become very hard to navigate and sort through at a later date.
Finally, we recommend making sure that the user list is up to date and any old accounts are removed. You can delete old users by hovering over them and selecting delete. If they have created any content, you will be asked to attribute it to another user. This can be either yourself or the Parentapps support account.