Hey guys welcome to WPBeginner and
thanks for tuning in. In this video I want to
show you how to add beautiful event timeline
to your WordPress website. This is a
great feature to add to your site if
you're wanting to showcase how your
business has grown or on a personal
site if you want to show the history of
your family or maybe a project that
you're working on. So to get that we're
going to go to our website dashboard and will login
and from our dashboard we want to go down to Plugins>Add New
from the search box we're looking for
timeline express. Okay
and this is the one we want so we'll click install now
and after it installs we want to also activate the plugin.
As the plug-in states the timeline works off of
creating new announcements we'll start
doing that but go into the settings page
and here you want to add a title
and what we want to do, I'll list all events cause we'll have some past.
You can also add things for future
things that you expect to happen.
And here you want choose how you want to show it. If
you want the most recent items at the
top. In here show the characters of the
announcement link. if you want the date to
be visible or not or if you just wanted to
show a timeline
there's more information to see, you could
show the read more here and
For the default icon you can choose what default icon you want to show.
You can setup your colors, background
colors, the message that will happen if
there are no announcements found, and then if
people do a search on your site if you
want to exclude this from the search
results and then you finally if you uninstall the plugin do you want the
announcements to also be deleted. So we'll click
Save Settings and now we can go in and
create a new announcement. And even
though we set the default colors you can
choose it here to make it change. You can
choose the font here on the announcement
date that's when you want to showcase
when the when it happened here you can upload
the image that showcases what happened or choose one from the media library
give the detailed information there. And once you're finished with that, you can click Publish. I'm gonna do
a couple more announcements so that we'll
see what it looks like on the site.
Alright once you have a few announcement item set up
you want to add this to a page. So we can
do that so I wanna go to pages, add
new
give it a title and to add it to you're just going to add
a shortcode, Timeline Express shortcode to the page
and when we click Publish all of those announcements
will come into our page and we can view
it just to see what it looks like.
Now as you see you can scroll through and then you see the details of the timeline. If you wanna read
more you can click read more and it'll
bring it up into its own page for you to view.
and that's how you add a timeline
to your site.
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