Your League's homepage controls many vital parts of your MyLO site.


Read through this documentation to learn what settings you manage through your League's homepage, and how changes to these affect what your visitors see.


NOTE: You will read several terms for your League's "homepage" (i.e. landing page, front page). For example, LWV Demo Local's homepage is at https://my.lwv.org/colorado/demo-local.

1. Begin on your League's homepage. Start a New Draft to open the editing form.

2. The top of the editing form will read: Edit Local or ILO League [your League name here] (or Edit State League...). Descending down the webpage, the first two fields you can edit are the Title and the Home Page Main Body Content.


Title - The Title shows up at the top of your homepage, under the Callouts (and under the Slideshow** if it applies). 

The text here controls your League's logo at the top of your site, above the Home Page Main Body Content, and the last portion of your MyLO site's URL. (i.e. LWV Demo Local's MyLO URL is https://my.lwv.org/colorado/demo-local).


Home Page Main Body Content - Add text, images, or links to files here. This field displays in the middle of the homepage, under the slideshow. 


**the Slideshow IS NOT managed through the homepage; go to Content Manager via Administer League Site menu, and find Slideshow Items in the list.

3. The next section is the Body with Embed Code. You can add additional text boxes for embed code (HTML) or a regular text box with the WYSIWYG formatting toolbar. 


Content added here displays under the main body text box, and above the footer (and list of promoted items if these apply).

4. Callouts for the Top of the Page & Areas Served Fields - these fields can be filled in to display the text at the top of your site's pages, under the header/League logo (refer to the first image to see an example).


If you list several areas served, you can also add them as individual entries in the COUNTY OR COUNTIES SERVED (LISTED) section.

5. League Contact Information - This contact info displays in the left corner of the footer. 


The minimum required fields are City, State, and Zip code. Enable the Re-geocode button whenever you update your League's address.

6. Social Links for Footer - Paste your corresponding social media page's public URL in these fields. 

These links will display as small social media icons in the footer, to the right of your League's contact info. 


If you leave any of these fields blank, the social media icon will not display.

7. Sidebar Content - This sidebar is located under your search bar, on the left side of your site. 


You can add buttons, icons, links, etc. Use the Media browser button (highlighted in yellow) to add in an image. 


Use the Insert/Edit link button (highlighted in pink) to add a link to the image while you've selected it with your cursor. You'll know you have an active link set because the Unlink button will be highlighted as it is in blue.

8. Subscriptions - Your League can subscribed to content from other Leagues on MyLO. The content types include: action alerts, articles, events, and positions. 

These subscriptions will display at the bottom of the corresponding content pages:


For example, LWV Demo Local is subscribed to all of LWVUS' MyLO content, LWVC action alerts, and LWV Los Angeles events. If you are subscribed to a League's content, but they have not yet created any, your site will not have subscribed content to display.

9. Advanced Settings - You can manage various things within this section:

a. Google Analytics Tracking Code - you can plug in the Google Site Tag code to start tracking the analytics of your site (documentation)


b. Groups Theme -  Here you can make changes to your site's theme. Check out our inviting MyLO design options on our MyLO info page. If you want to swap to the top-navigation menu, reach out to the MyLO Team. 


c. Group Register -  you can allow your members to request an account from you; all you have to do is approve their membership in your group to allow them access (documentation)


d. Restrict Entire League to Members Only? - setting this to Public will make your MyLO site public for the world to see. Setting it to Private will keep it hidden except to authenticated users/administrators (members who've logged in). (documentation)


e.  Groups Audience  - Ignore this field, you do not want to restrict your audience to only 1 League's members.


f.  League Type - This is already set for your League during the initial setup.

g.  Legacy Settings  - Ignore this section as it was part of LEW ("old MyLO").

10. The next section manages four types of settings:

a. Publishing options - You can add notes about the changes you've made (to access moderation notes, open the Moderate tab on the homepage).   


i. Promoted to front page - ignore this while editing the homepage (refer to the documentation when using this setting for other content types).

ii. Sticky at top of lists - ignore this while editing the homepage (refer to the documentation above when using this setting for other content types).


b. Menu settings - ignore this while editing the homepage (refer to the documentation when using this setting for other content types).


c. Authoring information - this is the timestamp of the author, the date, and the time your site was first created.


d. Meta tags - Refer to the documentation for tips on using metadata for social media. 


Before you save: many of the settings you manage through here are sitewide settings, so these won't be visible throughout your site until your changes have been Published.


Always be sure to click SAVE to complete the edits to your League's landing page!


NOTE: The VIEW CHANGES button will show you the HTML versions of the most recent published/draft of this content versus the version you've made changes to; you will not see the WYSIWYG display of the content versions.