Weekly Website Updates

Weekly Website Updates

Monday: Post Sunday Service

Each Monday, the previous day’s service should be published on the website. This involves creating a new Markdown file with the following structure:

---
layout: post
title: "Sunday Service (SERMON TITLE GOES HERE)"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
image: /images/video/YYYY-MM-DD.jpg
author: wade (or mark)
video_embed: "YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID"
tags: [video]
---

Sermon description goes here.

Steps:

  1. Find the video
    • Go to the church’s YouTube channel.
    • Locate the correct video.
    • The video ID is the string after v= in the URL (e.g., in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7PB0GGum0, the ID is QI7PB0GGum0).
  2. Get the sermon title and description
    • Open Twist and go to the Worship Planning channel.
    • Locate the thread for the relevant service date.
    • The title and description are typically provided in that thread.
  3. Choose an image
    • Use a high-quality, royalty-free image that reflects the sermon’s theme or liturgical season.
    • YouTube’s autogenerated thumbnails are available but are often not the greatest quality. Use your judgment.
  4. Save files
    • Image: Name it YYYY-MM-DD.jpg (or .png, etc.) and place it in the /images/video/ folder.
    • Markdown file: Name it YYYY-MM-DD-sunday-service.md and place it in /posts/video/.
  5. Merge to main
    • Once the updates are made, commit and merge into the main branch.

Friday: Post Upcoming Bulletin

Each Friday, post the bulletin for the upcoming Sunday.

Steps:

  1. Check the bulletin repository
    • Carolyn usually uploads the bulletin to https://github.com/uccdga/files/tree/main/bulletins in the early afternoon.
  2. Update the bulletin list
    • Edit https://github.com/uccdga/site/blob/main/_data/publications.yml to add an entry for the new bulletin.
  3. Merge to main
    • Once the update is made, commit and merge the changes into the main branch.