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-videos
Alliance: headlines-videos
Dynasty: headlines-videos
Elite: headlines-videos
Finish Line: headlines-videos
Hardball: navbar-videos (navbar-text file)
Knockout: headlines-videos
Lateral: headlines-videos
Revolution: headlines-videos
Velocity: headlines-videos
Instructions
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Sign in to your website and click on the Website tab
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Navigate to the video or videos section. If a section like that doesn’t exist, you can create it by following these instructions
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To upload an MP4 file click add here on the right side of the page and then upload files
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Drag and drop or click browse for files to select the files you want to upload
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Click Done to finish uploading the files
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To embed a video from YouTube on a page on the site click add here on the right side of the page
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In the Select a content type dropdown select Video: YouTube hosted and then click Continue
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In the Link field paste the URL for the video from YouTube and then click Save Changes
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Navigate back to the root directory of the Website tab
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Navigate to the appropriate file based on the theme your site is on and click edit content
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Click the gray box next to the Add featured page field to select the video you uploaded from the section they were uploaded to. Once selected click Add.
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Repeat Step 11 to connect additional videos to component
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You can adjust the component so you can manually sort the videos by checking the box next to Featured pages and click Stick. Now you can click and drag to adjust the order of the videos.
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Click Save Changes
Video instructions:
Hardball Theme Instructions
The Hardball theme has the option to separate video areas within the component by sport. You will need to create a new Headlines file for each separate video area you want to have display within the component.
Here are instructions for creating those separate Headlines files:
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Sign in to your website and click on the Website tab
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Navigate to the sports section and then click on the sport you want to add it for (ex. mbkb)
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Create a section named video or videos. This should match the filename for the section located in the root directory.
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Navigate into that section and click add here on the right side of the page
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Name the file headlines-videos
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Give the headlines a title (this is what will appear on your site at the top of that page)
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Click Continue
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From the Pages allowed drop down menu select Videos
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From the Sorting drop down menu, select Page date
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Click Save Settings
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Click Save Changes
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You can now start uploading videos and connecting them to that sports specific file
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To upload an MP4 file click add here on the right side of the page and then upload files
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Drag and drop or click browse for files to select the files you want to upload
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Click Done to finish uploading the files
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To embed a video from YouTube on a page on the site click add here on the right side of the page
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In the Select a content type dropdown select Video: YouTube hosted and then click Continue
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In the Link field paste the URL for the video from YouTube and then click Save Changes
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To connect these videos to that sports specific file click edit content on the headlines-videos file
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Click the gray box next to the Add featured page field to select the video you uploaded from the section they were uploaded to. Once selected click Add.
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You can adjust the component so you can manually sort the videos by checking the box next to Featured pages and click Stick. Now you can click and drag to adjust the order of the videos.
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Click Save Changes
Video instructions:
Here are instructions for connecting those sports specific Headlines files to the component:
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Sign in to your website and click on the Website tab
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Navigate to the file named navbar-videos and click edit content
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Click Add for each separate video area you want to display in the dropdown for the component
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Enter the sport name in the Label field
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Click on the gray box next to the Target URL field to select the headlines-videos file from the appropriate sports section. After you select the file you will need to copy/paste this param after the filename in the Target URL field: ?tmpl=component-video-template&layout=cards&pageSize=6&archive=true&archiveText=More+Videos&aspectRatio=16x9
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Click and drag to adjust the order of the videos within the dropdown menu for the component
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Click Save Changes
Video instructions: