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    Should URLs be in English?

    This is a question that we have been asked a few times: should website URLs be in English, even if the website content itself isn’t English? If your site language uses the Latin script, or the characters in the ASCII set, the question isn’t too difficult. Your URLs should be in the same language as…

  • Pattern: Chapter and Chapter Heading

    About These patterns are designed to be used when you are creating a full width page design, where the sidebar has been removed and where your design uses two columns throughout the page with the first column being larger and the second column being smaller and acting as a sidebar. For this layout we use the columns…

  • Pattern: 66:33 text with image, video or key facts

    About These patterns are designed to be used when you are creating a full width page design, where the sidebar has been removed and where your design uses two columns throughout the page with the first column being larger and the second column being smaller and acting as a sidebar. For this layout we use the columns…

  • Pattern: 50:50 text with image or video

    About These patterns are designed to be used when you are creating a full width page design, where the sidebar has been removed and where your design uses two equal columns throughout the page. On amnesty.org, we use this kind of page design for our project/issue pages. We tend to use the grey background versions…

  • Pattern: Custom Card

    About The Custom Card Pattern lets you create a ‘card’ that signposts users to another page. Unlike the post list block, this block has space for some paragraph text, so may be useful if you want to add a little more context to your call to action. Adding a Custom Card Pattern Custom Card Pattern…

  • How to embed a Twitter post in a WordPress post

    You may want to reference a Twitter post in your content. Can I use images from people’s social media accounts? You shouldn’t republish an image from another social media account, without having taken the following steps: Instead of republishing an image from a social media post, embedding the whole post is a safer way to…

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    How to crop a featured image

    The featured image is a banner shape. If you use an image with a different aspect ratio, it will automatically get cropped into shape of the banner image. To make sure your featured is cropping in the right place on your posts, you can crop the image before uploading, or using the media library image…