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Local school cell phone sweep teases statewide ban

Deriona Nicholson, Community Youth Journalist September 1, 2024

The following story was written by a Watts Community Youth Journalist as a part of the EveryDay Heroes Leadership Camp project that focused on community media.   5 B Deriona Nicholson = News...

A mother and her two children walk past an unhoused individual as the enter Alma Reaves Woods Watts Branch Library on Tuesday, Aug. 27. (Delfino Camacho | Watts Star)

Despite State Funding Reductions, Local Librarians Fight to Keep Services

Delfino Camacho, Staff Writer September 1, 2024

As summer ends and school begins, libraries in Watts and Compton continue to offer essential resources, including tech tool lending and literacy kits to teach kids how to read, even as the California State...

Help is just a single click away

Help is just a single click away

Sample Student April 4, 2024

Having trouble with something on the site?  Help is only a click away. Click here to access all of our support materials and submit a support ticket if you can't find the answers you are looking for.

Avoid double story placement

Avoid double story placement

Sample Student April 4, 2024

If you place stories in more than one category, say both Showcase and Sports, the story will display in both of these sections on the homepage.  The recommended way of working with this is to place a...

Completing the custom fields

Completing the custom fields

Sample Student, Staff Writer April 4, 2024

Each story has custom fields available for you to fill in as needed. Not all of these features will show up on the homepage, but they will show up on a story’s page. While the descriptions for each...

Add a story to your site

Add a story to your site

Sample Student, Staff Writer April 4, 2024

Adding a story is a simple process with SNO FLEX Pro.  To get started, log in and click on Add a Story under the SNO Dashboard dropdown menu at the top of the site. Enter the headline for the article. ...

Showcase area displays top stories in various formats

Showcase area displays top stories in various formats

Sample Student, News Editor April 4, 2024

This area at the top of the homepage is called the Home Top Story & Showcase Area. You can use this space to showcase your top stories. You have two options for this area: displaying a single Top...

Another headline goes here

Another headline goes here

Sample Student, News Editor April 4, 2024

This is sample body text.  To delete this and other sample content, click on Stories under the Stories tab in your WordPress dashboard and just trash the stories that you no longer want to see. It is...

Design your site to fit your publication's style

Design your site to fit your publication’s style

Sample Student April 4, 2024

The SNO FLEX Pro theme is built around the idea of giving site owners complete flexibility with easy to customize options for every aspect of their sites. The SNO Design Options page, available by clicking...

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