1. How to log in

You only need your web address, your username, and your password.

1. In any web browser, go to https://excellence-snowsports.com/wp-admin.
2. Type your username (or email) and your password. I sent these to you safely.
3. On your own computer, tick Remember Me, then click Log In.
4. You land on the Dashboard — the home screen of your admin panel. You're in!

2. The admin menu — your map

Down the left side is a dark menu. This is your control centre. You will use a few of these every day; the rest you can safely ignore.

3. One simple rule of thumb

4. The golden rules

Good news first: you cannot break the design. Editing words, photos and settings only changes that one thing — never the layout. So relax and explore.

Always safe to do

• Edit any text on any page.
• Replace or upload images.
• Change prices, phone, email, address and social links.
• Add or reorder instructors and reviews, edit menus, and create new pages.
• Fill in SEO titles and descriptions in Yoast.

Please do not

• Turn off or delete plugins (Astra, Elementor, Site Control, Reviews, Yoast, LiteSpeed).
• Switch the theme, or edit theme/plugin files.
• Change a page's Template (it controls the header & footer).
• Change the web address (slug) of existing pages unless you really must.
• Install a second SEO plugin — Yoast already does it all.

1. Open the Page Content editor

1. In the left menu, click Page Content.
2. Along the top, click the tab for the page you want — Home, About, Private Ski Lessons, and so on.
3. Each white box is one piece of the page. Click inside a box and type your new words.
4. Scroll down and click Save changes. You'll see "Saved. Your changes are live."
5. Open the live page and press Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + R to see your update.

2. Change a picture

Image boxes have a Choose image button instead of a text box.

1. In Page Content, find the image box you want to change.
2. Click Choose image. Your Media Library opens.
3. Pick a photo already there, or click Upload files to add a new one from your computer.
4. Type a short Alt Text (e.g. "Private ski lesson in Madarao") — this helps Google. Then click Select.
5. Click Save changes.

3. The Media Library

This is your one home for every image. Go to Media in the left menu to upload new photos in advance, find old ones, and — important for Google — click any photo to set its Alt Text.

4. Editing your menus

The links in your top header and footer are controlled in one place.

1. Go to Appearance › Menus.
2. At the top, choose which menu to edit: Primary is the top header; the Footer menus are the footer columns.
3. To add a link, tick a page on the left and click Add to Menu.
4. Drag items up or down to reorder. Drag an item slightly right to make it a drop-down child.
5. Click Save Menu.

Need a brand-new page?

Your existing pages are all edited in Page Content above. Building a new page from scratch uses the developer's design tools — so if you'd like a new page (a seasonal offer, a new program), just send me a message and I'll set it up on-brand for you, ready for you to fill in with Page Content.

Contact details & social links

Your phone, email, address and social icons show in the footer and on the contact page. Change them once here and they update everywhere.

1. Go to Site Control › Global Settings.
2. Fill in Phone, Email and Address.
3. Paste your full links into Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp (leave a box empty to hide that icon).
4. Click Save Changes.

The homepage banner

The large banner at the very top of your homepage has its own simple editor.

1. Go to Site Control › Homepage.
2. Edit the small top line, the heading, the sub-title, and the button label & link.
3. To change the background, click Choose image and pick a photo.
4. Click Save Changes, then hard-refresh the homepage.

Header, footer & the booking button

The contact form

1. Go to Site Control › Contact Form.
2. Set the recipient email (where enquiries go), and optional CC/BCC.
3. Edit the success and error messages guests see after sending.
4. Click Save Changes.

Backup your settings

Site Control › Import / Export saves all your settings to a file, or restores them from one. A quick safety net before bigger changes.

Instructors, reviews & logo

• Instructors: the Team menu — add a person, set name, role, photo and order. The Instructors page updates itself.
• Reviews: the Reviews menu — add or edit the guest reviews on your homepage.
• Logo & favicon: Appearance › Customize › Site Identity (leave the logo empty to keep the built-in one).

Prices — add, edit & remove rows yourself

Your price tables are now fully yours. Change a price, add a new row, or remove one — in seconds, with no developer. Your changes appear on the Pricing page instantly.

1. Go to Site Control › Prices.
2. To change a price, just type the new value in its box.
3. To add a row, click + Add row at the bottom of a table and fill it in.
4. To remove a row, click Remove next to it.
5. Click Save changes. Then hard-refresh the Pricing page to see it.

FAQ — add & edit your own questions

Add brand-new questions, edit existing ones, or remove any — yourself. Each set powers a different page, so you can have different FAQs on different pages.

1. Go to Site Control › FAQ and pick the set (e.g. FAQ page).
2. Edit any question or answer by typing in its box.
3. Click + Add question for a new one, or Remove to delete one.
4. Click Save changes, then hard-refresh the page.

Gallery — your photo gallery

Build a photo gallery yourself. Add as many photos as you like with optional captions; they appear on your Gallery page automatically. (Your Gallery page is ready and waiting — just add photos and ask me to publish it.)

1. Go to Site Control › Gallery.
2. Click + Add image, then Choose image to pick or upload a photo.
3. Add an optional caption. Repeat for each photo.
4. Click Save changes.

Programs — the cards on your Home and Lessons pages

Every program card — Private Ski, Private Snowboard, Premium Private, Off Piste, School Trips and Ski Instructor Courses — is edited here. One list drives both the Home page and the Lessons hub, so you only ever write it once. You can change a card, reorder your programs, or add a whole new one.

1. Go to Site Control › Programs.
2. To change a card: edit the Title, the Description, or click Choose image to swap the photo.
3. Level chips are the small outlined labels under the title (e.g. Ski, All Levels). Use + Add chip to add one, and the small × on a chip to remove it.
4. Location badges are the pin labels lower down (e.g. Madarao). + Add location adds one.
5. Link is where the card’s Explore → arrow goes — write it as a path, e.g. /instructor-courses/.
6. To add a program, click + Add program at the bottom and fill the new card in.
7. Click Save changes.

Leave a card empty to delete it. If you clear both the title and the image, that program is removed when you save.

The photo alternates left and right by itself. You do not need to do anything — the cards lay themselves out in a zig-zag down the page, so a new program always lands on the correct side.

Course Videos — the videos on your Instructor Courses page

The videos inside the “More info + CSIA video” panel on your Instructor Courses page are now yours. Swap a video, re-word a caption, or add a brand-new one — paste a YouTube link and save. No developer, no rebuild. And they never slow the page down: visitors see a still picture with a play button, and nothing loads from YouTube until someone presses Play, so you can add videos freely.

The screen has two boxes — Level 1 course cards and Level 2 course card. Each box holds a list of videos, and you can have as many as you like in each.

1. Go to Site Control › Course Videos.
2. Pick the box you want — Level 1 course cards or Level 2 course card.
3. In YouTube link or ID, paste the video’s address — copy it from your browser’s address bar, or from the Share button under the video (both work). A small preview picture appears as soon as the link is right — that is how you know it worked.
4. Heading shown on the video — the bold line visitors read, e.g. “Watch the CSIA Level 1 skiing standard”.
5. Small line under the heading — the little grey caption, e.g. “CSIA’s own video · 2:38”.
6. Video name — the plain title of the video, read out by screen readers and shown in the player. Keep it simple, e.g. “CSIA - Level 1 Skiing Standard - 2026”.
7. Click + Add video for another one, or Remove to take one out.
8. Click Save changes, then hard-refresh the Instructor Courses page.

Course Cards — add, hide or remove a course

The course cards on your Instructor Courses page — Prep, the Level 1 packages, Level 2 and the private add-on — used to be built into the page, so adding a course or changing a price needed a rebuild. They are now an ordinary screen. Everything on a card is yours: the photo, the corner label, the name, the description, the detail lines, the price and the button.

The screen has two boxes — the Level 1 row (the top row of cards on the page) and the Level 2 & private coaching row underneath it. Each card inside a box is one card on the page.

1. Go to Site Control › Course Cards.
2. To change something, type in the box — Course name, Short description, Price, Button text — and click Save changes. It is live at once.
3. To change the photo, click Choose photo and pick or upload a picture. Fill in Photo description underneath — that is what screen readers and Google read.
4. Detail lines are the small rows inside the card (Duration, Language, Dates & location). Use + Add a detail line to add one and the small × to remove one.
5. To add a course, click + Add a course card at the bottom of a row and fill the new card in.
6. To take a course off the page for a while, untick Show this card.
7. To delete a course for good, click Remove on that card, then save.
8. Click Save changes.

The dates and fees table is a different screen. Course cards are the boxes near the top of the page; the Dates & fees table further down is edited in Site Control › Instructor Courses, exactly as before.

Starting a new page — from a ready-made draft

There are eight pages already waiting in your admin, saved as drafts: three for a new location, three for a new lesson or programme, and two for a new course. Each one is a full copy of the design — hero, sections, price table, everything — with the words replaced by instructions telling you what goes where. You fill one in and press Publish. No developer needed.

A draft is completely invisible until you publish it: anyone who is not logged in gets a “page not found”, and it is not in your sitemap or in any menu.

1. Go to Pages and click the Drafts filter. Pick the one that matches what you are adding — TEMPLATE — New Location Page, New Lesson Page or New Course Page.
2. Go to Page Content in the left-hand menu and choose that page. Every heading, paragraph and photo on it is a field here. Replace each “Write your text here” with your own words, then Save changes.
3. Swap the photos on the same screen with Choose image, and fill in the small photo-description box under each one.
4. Set the prices in Site Control › Prices. There is a set named after the page you are working on, already filled with a copy of your standard rates — edit the rows and save.
5. For a lesson page, do the same in Site Control › FAQ and Site Control › What’s Included. For a course page, the cards are in Site Control › Course Cards, in the box named after your draft.
6. Back in Pages, open the draft. Change the title from “TEMPLATE — …” to the real name, and click Edit beside the web address to give it a clean one — hakuba instead of new-location-1.
7. Use Preview to read it through, then press Publish.
8. If you want it in the navigation, go to Appearance › Menus, tick the page and drag it into place.

Run out of drafts? Tell me and more are added in minutes — they are copies, not handmade pages.

Image sizes, ratio & quality

To keep every page sharp and consistent, the design sets a fixed height for each spot and centers your photo inside it. So you don't set the height — just upload the right shape (ratio) so nothing important is cut.

What Yoast does for you automatically

• The sitemap (the list of pages you give to Google) at /sitemap_index.xml.
• The preview picture and text shown when a page is shared on Facebook or LinkedIn.
• Google schema — extra data that can earn richer search results.

The Yoast box — field by field

Open any page and scroll to the Yoast SEO box. Fill in these fields:

Ready-made suggestions for your key pages

To save you time, here is a starting point. Use these as-is or tweak them to match how your guests search.

Tell Google about your site (one time)

1. Make a free account at search.google.com/search-console.
2. Add your site and verify it (Yoast makes this easy — or I can do it for you).
3. Under Sitemaps, submit sitemap_index.xml.
4. Over the next weeks it shows which searches bring people to you — very useful for refining your keyphrases.

After you edit — hard refresh

Your site has a speed booster (caching). After you save, you might still see the old version for a moment. Press Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) to see your change right away. Still old? Go to LiteSpeed Cache › Purge All.

The plugins you rely on (all free)

Backups

• Settings: Site Control › Import / Export saves all your settings to a file.
• Page content: Elementor keeps a History of every page (undo any change).
• Full site: a free plugin like UpdraftPlus, or your Hostinger panel, makes a complete backup.

Quick troubleshooting

Common questions