Featured Athlete

These instructions for updating this component refer to websites on our Themes 2.0 platform. You can check to see if your website is on that platform by reviewing your contract or by logging into your website, click on the Website tab, click on the Setup subtab, click Site profile, and check under Features to see if it says Theme 2.0 with a theme name next to it. This will also indicate which theme your website is on which you can use when looking at the filename list. If you don’t see that text, then that means your site is not on our Themes 2.0 platform.

Filenames for this component by catalog theme:

Align: headlines-aotw

Alliance: headlines-featured-athlete

Dynasty: headlines-aotw

Elite: headlines-aotw

Finish Line: headlines-aotw

Hardball: headlines-aotw

Knockout: headlines-athletes

Lateral: headlines-featured-athlete

Revolution: headlines-aotw

Velocity: headlines-featured-athlete

Instructions

Creating player profiles

1. Login to your website and click on the Website tab

2. Click on the aotw section

3. Click add here under Options

4. Select article: rich as the content type and click Continue

5. Enter the filename in the Name file. You can use any naming convention that you want to, but a common one is first initial, last name, and then year (jsmith2024)

6. Pick the date you are creating the page in the Page Date field

7. Enter the athlete’s name and sport separated by a comma (John Smith, Men’s Basketball) in the Title field

8. Click the image selector box next to the Thumbnail field to select the photo you want to have display within the component. You could choose their headshot or pick another image to use.

9. Go down to the Featured in headlines field, click within the text box, and select the filename for the component. You can find the appropriate filename for your website’s theme by reviewing the list at the top of the page.

10. Click Continue

11. This will take you to the text editor where you can enter a description for that player’s profile

12. Once you have completed the description click Save Changes

Video instructions:

Using player bios

This option is used to connect player bios to this component instead of creating player profiles.

1. Login to your website and click on the Website tab

2. Navigate to the appropriate filename based on your website’s theme and click edit content

3. Click on the file selector box next to the Add featured page field

4. In the file selector navigate to the section where the player’s bio is stored, click Change, click on the bio file, and then click Add. Player bios are located within the bios section, within the season section, of their sport section. For example, a player on the men’s basketball team in the 2023-24 season would have their bio located here- /sports/mbkb/2023-24/bios. The filename for those bio pages follows this format- lastname_firstname_playerid. For example, the bio file for John Smith would have a filename like this- smith_john_mau9
   

   

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add additional bios

6. To adjust these files so you can sort them manually click the box next to Featured pages to select all, then click Stick near the bottom of the page. This will allow you to click and drag to adjust the order of these files within the component.

7. Click Save Changes

You will also need to connect a thumbnail image to the player’s bio file which is the image that will display within the component.

1. Click edit content on the file powering the component

2. Click on details next to the URL path for the bio file to open it in a new tab
   

   

3. Click edit details under options

4. Click the image selector box next to the Thumbnail field to select the photo you want to have display within the component. You could choose their headshot or pick another image to use.

5. Pick the image for that field and then Click Save Changes

Video instructions: