WDT Website
Build Guide

Editing either one

• Find the venue or page in the list.
• Hover its name and click Edit with Elementor — not plain Edit.
• The page opens with the live design on the right and a panel on the left.
• Click any block on the page. The panel shows that block's fields.
• Change the text in the field. The page updates as you type.
• Click the green Update button at the bottom left when you are done.
• Then purge the cache.

The top half, in order

• Dashboard — the front page of the admin. Nothing to do here.
• Venues & Parks — all 92 venue and parks pages. This is where most of the work happens.
• Pages — every ordinary page: Camps, Contact Us, Jobs, Testimonials and so on.
• Design Templates — the saved blocks that appear on lots of pages at once, including the monthly promo banners for venues and parks. Open Saved Templates inside it.
• Media — every photograph, logo and PDF on the site.
• Forms — the enquiry forms themselves, how they are built and where they send to.
• Contact Form Submissions — what people have actually sent you.
• Coaches — the one to one coaching sessions people buy. These are shop products.
• Coaches Bookings — the orders, customers and settings behind those bookings.
• Headers and Footers — the strip at the very top and bottom of every page.
• Mega Menus — the dropdown navigation.
• News (not in use) — parked. There are no news posts on the site. If you decide to start one, say so and it can be set up properly.

Developer Sections

Below the line you will find Users, SEO, Payments, Tools, Nexcess, Plugins, Appearance, Settings, Elementor and the rest. These change how the site works rather than what it says, and a wrong move in any of them can take part of the site down without showing an error. The one exception is Nexcess → Page Cache, which you will use every time you make a change — see the rule at the top of this guide.

Nothing down there is locked, so you can look. As a rule, if a job is not described in this guide, it belongs to your developer.

The venues list

Open Venues & Parks → All Venues & Parks and each row carries a small tag showing whether it is a Venue or a Park, which is the quickest way to find what you are after in a list of 92. The columns have been cut back to the title, the type, the area and the activities.

If the menu ever looks different

This arrangement comes from a snippet called WDT Admin Menu Tidy, under Code Snippets in the developer half. Switching it off returns the menu to the standard WordPress one, with everything in its original place and nothing lost. Only your developer should need to touch it.

Change a session time or price

Click the session block. In the panel you will see a list of sessions, each one a row you can open. Open the row and change the title, description, price or button link. Drag the handle to reorder them. The plus button adds another session; the x removes one.

Change where a Book button goes

Open the same session row and look for the button URL field. Paste the new ClubSpark, GoTeamUp or Corsizio link in. The button text field is separate, so the button can say whatever you want it to say.

Add a coach

On the venue page, click the coaches block and add a row: name, a short description, a photo, and the booking link. Where a venue has no named coach the card says Individual Lessons and sends people to Contact Us — that is deliberate, not an oversight, so leave it that way until there is a real name to put in.

Add a testimonial

Pages → Testimonials → Edit with Elementor, click the testimonials block, then Add Item. Three fields: the quote, the person's name, and their club or role.

Add a document to the Key Docs pages

Media → Add Media File to upload the PDF first, then edit Coach Key Docs or Venue Key Docs and add the link to the document list block. Both pages are open to everyone — no sign-in required.

Put a designed banner on a page

If the picture already has wording on it — a Canva graphic for a campaign — do not put it behind the page heading, or the two sets of writing land on top of each other. Use one of the plain navy layouts instead, which puts the banner in the block beside the text or on its own. See Banner Layouts.

Icons

Most blocks let you pick an icon from a dropdown. Every block offers the same 58 icons, so whatever you choose will draw correctly wherever you choose it.

Change the sponsor logos

The sponsor logos sit in the footer, so they show on every page of the site. One change covers all of them.

Go to Design Templates → Saved Templates, open Default footer with Elementor, and click the row of sponsor logos. In the panel on the left you will see the images with a pencil over them. Click that, and you get the normal media library window: tick a logo to remove it, click Add to Gallery to bring a new one in, and drag them into whatever order you want. Update when you are done.

You do not need to worry about sizing. Every logo is fitted into the same space automatically, so a tall logo and a wide one both sit correctly without anyone touching the design. Upload the logo at a decent size, ideally on a transparent background, and it will look right.

Dunlop is deliberately separate, sitting above the row on its own, because they are the equipment partner rather than one of the sponsors. That one is its own block and is changed the same way.

• Product images are shown in a square frame and scaled to fit, so any shape of photo looks tidy in the grid. Nothing gets cropped.
• The category buttons at the top of the shop stick to the screen as you scroll. They are styled in Appearance → Customise → Additional CSS, in a block marked "WDT — shop category tabs", if they ever need changing.
• Product pages themselves are hidden on purpose. Everything is bought from the shop page through the quick-view popup, so links to individual /product/ pages redirect back to the shop.

Adding a coach to the shop

The quickest and safest way is to copy a coach who is already set up rather than start from scratch, because the package options have to be built in a particular way.

• Go to Coaches → All Products and find a coach of the same kind as the one you are adding. The two kinds are Individual Coaching Sessions, which are one to one lessons, and Basket Blitz. They are not interchangeable, so copy like for like.
• Hover over that product and choose Duplicate. Change the title to the new coach’s name, swap the photo, and update the description.
• Leave the Attributes tab exactly as the copy made it. It will show a list called Package typed straight into the product, with the options in the right order. Do not swap it for the shared Lesson Package list in the dropdown, as that one sorts itself alphabetically and will put ten before three.
• On the Variations tab, set the price against each package. Leave Virtual ticked on every variation.
• Check the Coaches categories box on the right matches the coach you copied, then Publish.

The new coach then appears on the shop page under the right category tab. There is no separate page or link for an individual coach, by design — see the note above about product pages redirecting to the shop.

A coach whose prices do not follow the standard packages

Most coaches use the same three packages, so copying an existing coach covers it. Some price differently, for example by court type rather than by block of lessons. The steps are the same, with one rule that decides whether it works: every option must be worded differently. The same wording cannot be used twice.

• Go to Products, find the coach and click Edit.
• Scroll to Product data and check it is set to Variable product.
• Open the Attributes tab. The attribute is called Package. In the Value(s) box, type the options separated by a vertical bar, like this:
  One lesson outdoors during the day | One lesson outdoors with floodlights | One lesson indoors
• Tick Used for variations, leave Visible on the product page unticked so it matches the other coaches, and click Save attributes.
• Open the Variations tab and add one variation for each option. Set the drop-down on each variation to a different option. Two variations must never carry the same one.
• Expand each variation, tick Virtual, and put that option’s price in Regular price. Leave the stock fields alone.
• Click Save changes, then Update at the top of the page.
• Check it on the site. Open the shop, click Select here on that coach’s card, and pick each option in turn. The price should change each time, and the card itself should show the range, for example £15.00 – £20.00.

The wording in the Value(s) box is what a parent sees in the drop-down, so write it the way you want it read. The options appear in the order they are listed there.

The three choices

• Image behind the text — the photograph fills the block with the writing on top. This is how every page is set unless somebody changes it.
• Image beside the text — the block is plain brand navy, the writing sits on the left, and the banner sits beside it at full size with nothing covering it.
• Image only, no text — plain brand navy with just the banner, centred, and no writing at all.

The two plain navy layouts are the ones for a designed banner — a Canva graphic that already carries its own wording. Put one of those behind the text and the page heading lands on top of writing that is already in the picture, and neither can be read.

Setting it on a page

• Edit the page with Elementor and click the banner at the top.
• In the Content tab, open Background.
• Set Banner layout.
• Choose the picture in Banner image.
• Put an address in Banner image links to if clicking the banner should take people somewhere.

Banner image and Banner image links to only appear once you pick one of the two plain navy layouts, and Background Type, Background Image, Video URL and Overlay Style disappear, because those only apply to the image-behind-the-text layout.

Setting it on the home page slider

• Edit the home page with Elementor and click the slider at the top.
• Open the slide you want to change.
• Set Slide layout to "Image beside text, plain navy background".
• Choose the picture in Image beside text.
• Put an address in Image links to if clicking it should take people somewhere.

What it does on a phone

On a phone the plain navy layouts stack, with the image first and the writing and button underneath, so the banner is the first thing anyone sees. The image is shown whole rather than cropped, whatever shape it is.

On the page banners the image is shown at a set height, so banners of different dimensions all come out the same depth across the site rather than every page being slightly different.

The row of promotional banners

The sliding row of promotional banners on the home page and on Player Bookings holds a separate link for each banner, so each one takes people to the thing it advertises.

• Edit the page with Elementor and click the row of banners.
• Open a slide in the Slides list.
• Set Link to Custom URL and put the page address in.

Both pages carry the same six banners, so a banner swapped on one needs swapping on the other too. This row is separate from the Global Promo Templates further down, which are the banners inside the venue and parks pages.

The four

• Launch Week
• Launch Month
• Player Bookings
• Parks

All four open with Edit with Elementor like any other page, and anything around the list — a banner, a heading, the row of promotional banners — is edited normally. It is only the list itself that is code. Player Bookings now builds its A–Z from your published venues, so publishing a venue adds it to that page and unpublishing takes it off — there is nothing to edit there and nothing to ask for. Launch Week, Launch Month and Parks are still fixed lists; tell us what you want changed on those and we will do it.

Launch Week and Launch Month are no longer in the main menu. Both pages are still live and still work if you have the address; they were taken out of the menu because they are promotions rather than places, and they can go back in when a promotion runs again.

One site, all regions

Every We Do Tennis venue lives here — 92 tennis centres and parks programmes across England and Wales, each with its own page carrying sessions, coaches, prices, booking links, map and images.

The addresses wedotennis.co.uk, wdtvenues.co.uk and wdtwales.co.uk are due to redirect here when the site moves across. Until that happens they still serve the old sites, so anything you change here will not show on them. The full list of which old address points where is kept in a separate spreadsheet held by whoever manages the domains.

Everything is hosted here

All images and all downloadable documents live in this site's own Media library. Nothing on the site depends on an external host, so nothing breaks when a link elsewhere changes.

Forms

All forms are Contact Form 7 forms, edited under Contact → Contact Forms. Seven are listed there: Coaching Application, Coaching Application Form, Contact form 1, Enquiry Form, Pop up form, Refer a Friend, and Work With Us Enquiry. Coaching applications go to matt@wedotennis.co.uk; the others go to the general enquiries address.

Two of those seven are worth tidying when someone has a moment: Contact form 1 is the default form WordPress ships with, and Coaching Application and Coaching Application Form look like one duplicated. Check which is actually in use on the page before deleting either.

To change where a form's replies go, open the form, click the Mail tab and edit the To field.

Search engines

Every page, venue and product has its own meta description — the line Google shows underneath your link in search results — and exactly one H1 heading. The 48 main pages are hand-written. The 93 venue pages and the shop products use a generated line that is accurate and unique to each one.

Worth doing when someone has an hour: rewrite the descriptions for your dozen busiest venues in your own words. Edit the venue, scroll to the Yoast SEO box at the bottom, and type over what is there.

The site's header and footer templates are deliberately hidden from Google. They are layout fragments rather than pages, and nobody should ever land on one from a search result. Under Yoast SEO → Settings → Content types you will find toggles marked "Show headers in search results" and "Show footers in search results". Both belong off. Leave them that way. Your real pages, venues and parks are unaffected and stay fully indexed.

Venue images

Each venue shows its own branded banner — a coloured tile carrying the venue name. Four Welsh venues (Hay-on-Wye, Leighton, Llandre and Llanfair) and a handful of parks pages show a generic WDT tile or "coming soon" artwork instead, because no venue-specific banner exists for them yet. Drop a real photograph into either image slot and it replaces the tile.

The Technology Stack

• WordPress — Content management system (the engine)
• Vazhi theme + DesignThemes Directory Addon — Provides the venue listing system (custom post type for Tennis Centres). The active theme is vazhi-child; put any custom CSS there, never in the parent.
• Elementor — Visual drag-and-drop page builder
• WDT Elementor Widgets — the custom plugin holding your 71 branded widgets
• WooCommerce — Shop/products (already installed)
• Yoast SEO — Search engine optimisation
• Nexcess hosting tools — page caching and Redis object caching, built into the hosting rather than installed as a plugin. Cleared from Nexcess → Page Cache.
• WeDesignTech Elementor Addon — supplies eight widgets used in the headers, footers, FAQ accordions and testimonial blocks. Required.
• Security — handled at server level, not by a plugin. Do not install a security plugin such as Wordfence without speaking to your developer first: it conflicts with the caching setup.

Pages (Elementor)

These are the main site pages built with Elementor and our WDT widgets. They live under Pages in the left sidebar.

• Home page, Player Bookings
• Venue Support, Court Maintenance, Coach Support
• Upcoming Courses, Traineeships, Coaching Information
• Work With Us and its enquiry form
• Jobs, Contact Us, About Us
• Camps, Doubles Masterclass, Ace the Basics, Pickleball
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Coaching (the shop) at /shop/
• Parks landing page and individual park pages (e.g. Manchester Parks)

Venue and Parks Listings

Venue entries live under Venues & Parks → All Venues & Parks in the left sidebar. Each venue has its own listing with structured fields (contact info, location, images, categories). The venue's page content is built with Elementor using the "Custom Template" option, which lets you use WDT widgets inside the venue listing.

Finding your venues and parks

In the WordPress admin sidebar, look for the Venues & Parks menu item, second from the top. Click it to expand the sub-menu:

• All Venues & Parks — every venue and parks page, 92 published
• Add New — starts a blank listing. Cloning an existing one is usually quicker, see Adding a Venue Quickly
• Activities — what happens at the venue: Coaching, Courts, Holiday Camps, Academy, Pickleball and so on
• Areas — the area the listing belongs to, such as Manchester or Telford. Parks areas are named like "Wirral Parks"
• Settings — global directory configuration
• Statistics — view counts

The safe way

• Open the page and click Edit with Elementor.
• From the panel on the left, drag in a Text Editor for words, or an Image for a picture.
• Drop it in the main column of that page, between two blocks that are already there.
• Save, then look at the page on a phone before you walk away. Most things that go wrong go wrong on a phone.

If you want it to look like the rest of the site

A plain Text Editor is fine for a sentence or two. For anything with a heading, a card or a button, use one of the WDT blocks instead. There are 71 of them, they are already on brand, and they behave properly on a phone.

You will find them in the widget panel on the left while editing. Type WDT into the search box at the top of that panel and they all come up.

You can undo it

Nothing you do here is permanent. While you are editing, Elementor keeps a History panel you can step back through. Once you have saved, every page also keeps a list of earlier versions you can go back to.

So if you are not sure, try it. It is far easier to look at something and decide it is wrong than to describe what you wanted in an email.

Key Tabs to Fill In

• General — Set Page Template to "Custom Template" so you can build with Elementor. Toggle "Featured Item" on if it should appear prominently.
• Media – Images — Upload venue photos with captions. These appear in the listing gallery.
• Location — Address and map coordinates. Powers the map pin and "Get Directions" link on the front end.
• Contact Information — Phone, email, website for this specific venue (if different from head office).

Other Tabs — Do Not Use

• Features — Not used
• Media – Videos — Not used
• Business Hours — Not used
• Price, Virtual Tour, Floor Plan, Event — Not used

Current Categories

Tick all that apply. You can add new categories via Venues & Parks → Activities.

Location Taxonomies

• City — Manchester, Telford, Ludlow, Manchester Parks, etc.
• County/State — Shropshire, etc.
• Neighbourhood — Optional, more granular location

These power the venue search and filtering on the front end.

How to Use a Widget

• Open any page in Elementor (click "Edit with Elementor")
• In the left panel, search for "WDT" or scroll to the WDT Widgets category
• Drag a widget onto the page canvas
• Configure it in the left panel — all options are labelled and have help text
• Click Update/Publish when done

1 WDT Parks Hero

Two-column hero designed specifically for park area pages. Shows a tilted tile card image on the left (area logo or photo) and all the key info on the right.

• Partner Badge — optional pill with partner logo image or default icon (e.g. "In Partnership with Wirral Council"). Toggle on/off per page.
• Programme Badge — coral pill label (e.g. "Parks Programme")
• Title, Location, Description — all editable text fields
• Quick Stats — repeater with number, label, and icon selection (9 icon choices including court, users, smile, star, trophy, etc.)
• Built-in Sticky Action Bar — phone number, email with custom label (e.g. "Got a Question?"), Book a Court button and Annual Pass button with separate URLs. Sticks to the top when scrolling.

2 WDT CTA Tiles

Large image overlay cards in a 2, 3, or 4 column grid. Each card has a background image with a navy gradient overlay, a coral icon square, title, description, and an arrow CTA link. Cards lift and glow coral on hover.

• Use for the "Book a Court / Annual Passes / Tennis Sessions" mosaic directly below the hero
• Each card can link externally (e.g. to the LTA booking page) or internally (e.g. anchor scroll to tabs)
• 11 icon options including court, card, users, calendar, star, trophy, globe, shield
• Background images are optional — without one, cards show a solid navy gradient

3 WDT Quick Links Bar

A horizontal coral or navy gradient strip with 2–6 icon + text link buttons. For the core action buttons that appear on every parks page.

• Defaults: Book a Court at the Parks, Area Wide Annual Passes, LTA Local Tennis Leagues, Safeguarding
• 13 icon options per button
• Each button has its own URL (can open in new tab for external sites)
• Choose coral or navy gradient background

4 WDT Park Map

Interactive map showing park locations with coral branded pins. Each park is added by the admin with name, address, coordinates, and "what's on" notes. Fully editable per page.

• Adding parks: Click "Add Item" in the repeater. Enter park name, address, latitude, longitude, and what's on (one item per line — each line becomes a bullet point)
• Getting coordinates: Right-click any location in Google Maps → "What's here?" → copy the lat/lng numbers
• Visitor experience: Coral teardrop pins on the map. Click a pin to see a popup with name, address and what's on. Click a park in the list below the map and it flies to that location.
• Settings: Map height (150–600px), zoom level, show/hide the location list, list max height
• Each parks page has its own independent map — Wirral shows Wirral parks, Manchester shows Manchester parks
• Uses OpenStreetMap (free, no API key needed)

5 WDT Park Sessions

Slim horizontal session rows designed for parks pages. Each row shows: session title + description on the left, price badge in the middle (green FREE pill or coral price text), and a Book button on the right. Optional notice box at the top for important info. Use inside parks tab sections.

Admin fields: Notice text (optional), then a repeater for each session: Title, Description, Price (type FREE for green badge), Button text, Button URL, Button style (coral/navy).

6 WDT Course Cards

Coloured category cards for the Coach Development page. Each card has its own colour theme (navy, green, gold, coral), a circular icon, title, and booking button. Comes pre-loaded with 5 default cards: CPD (navy), Readiness Tests (navy), Padel Tennis (navy with padel racket icon), First Aid (green #228B22), and Safeguarding (yellow/gold #DAA520).

Admin fields: Section title, columns (2-5), then a repeater for each card: Title, Card Colour (navy/green/gold/coral), Icon (12 options including padel racket, first aid cross, shield), Button text, Button URL.

Colour rules: First Aid cards always use green (#228B22). Safeguarding cards always use yellow/gold (#DAA520). Each colour controls the background tint, icon gradient, hover border, and button colour automatically.

7 WDT Promo Banner

Global promotional banner designed for monthly promos. Upload a Canva graphic, optionally add a text overlay (badge, title, description), and a Book Now button. Coral border and shadow by default. Button can sit below the image or overlay on top of it.

Key feature: Use this widget inside an Elementor Saved Template to create edit-once-update-everywhere promos. One template for all parks pages, one for all venue pages. See the Global Promo Templates section below for setup instructions.

Admin fields: Promo image (upload Canva graphic), corner radius, text overlay toggle (badge, title, description), button text, button URL, button style (coral/navy/white), button position (below image or overlay), coral border toggle, shadow toggle.

8 WDT Parks Tabs

Scrolling tab bar for parks pages with arrow navigation and fade hints on mobile. Pre-configured with parks-specific defaults: Free Park Tennis, Coaching, Social Play, Big Tennis Weekends, Tournaments. Use the Park Sessions widget inside each tab's content section for slim session rows.

9 Other Widgets Used on Parks Pages

These widgets live elsewhere in the panel but are part of a standard parks page too:

• WDT Feature CTA — for the Tennis Activator section (navy background, image + text + button)
• WDT Park Sessions — slim horizontal session rows for tab content (replaces Session Cards on parks)
• WDT Social Links — for the Follow Us section (Facebook, Instagram, X)
• WDT Venue Sidebar — for sidebar contact info, mini map, and promo/"Got a Question?" card
• WDT CTA Section — for the bottom coral "Want to Find Out More?" strip

The WDT widgets plugin

The WDT Elementor Widgets plugin is not in the public WordPress plugin directory, so it will never prompt you to update it and there is nothing for you to install. It carries 71 widgets and a single shared set of 58 icons available to every one of them.

How It Works

You create two Elementor Saved Templates — one for parks promos and one for venue promos. Each template contains a WDT Promo Banner widget with the current month's Canva graphic and booking button. You then embed that template on every relevant page using a shortcode. When someone edits the template, every page that uses it updates instantly.

Step 1: Create the Promo Template

1. Go to Design Templates → Saved Templates → Add New (or visit wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=elementor_library directly)
2. Template Type: Section
3. Name it: Parks Monthly Promo (or Venues Monthly Promo)
4. Click Create Template
5. In the Elementor editor, search WDT Promo Banner and drag it on
6. Upload the current Canva promo image, set the button text and link
7. Click Publish
8. Note the template ID from the URL bar (the number after post=)

Repeat for the second template (venues or parks).

Step 2: Embed on Pages

1. Open a parks or venue page in Elementor
2. Find the tab or section where you want the promo to appear
3. Drag an Elementor Shortcode widget into that section
4. Type: [elementor-template id="YOUR_ID"] (replace YOUR_ID with the template number from Step 1)
5. Click Update
6. Repeat on every parks page (same shortcode, same ID) or every venue page

Step 3: Monthly Updates (The Easy Bit)

When the team wants to change the promotion:

1. Go to Design Templates → Saved Templates
2. Click Parks Monthly Promo (or Venues Monthly Promo) → Edit with Elementor
3. Click the Promo Banner widget → upload the new Canva image
4. Update the button link if needed
5. Click Update

That's it. Every page with the embedded shortcode now shows the new promotion. No need to edit individual pages.

WDT Promo Banner Widget — Settings Reference

Important Notes

• Two separate templates — one for parks, one for venues. This lets you run different promotions for each.
• The shortcode must be placed once on each page during initial setup. After that, all updates happen through the template only.
• To temporarily hide a promo, edit the template and remove the image or set it to draft. All pages will show a placeholder message instead.
• Templates are found at Design Templates → Saved Templates in the WordPress sidebar, or go directly to wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=elementor_library

Parks vs Venues — What's Different?

• Use WDT Parks Tabs instead of WDT Venue Tabs (pre-loaded with parks defaults)
• Parks often have a sticky action bar at top (Book a Court + Annual Pass buttons)
• Tab content focuses on Free Park Tennis, Junior/Adult Coaching, Social Play, Tournaments
• Free sessions get a "FREE" badge — use the Session Cards widget with price set to £0
• Bottom section includes Social Links widget for the local parks Facebook/Instagram

Typical Page Structure

• Hero Banner — Sets the tone with background, title, subtitle
• Stats Bar — Optional, but adds impact (coral gradient, 3-5 stats)
• Content Blocks — Mix of Info Cards, Service Cards, Tabbed Content, Image CTAs, etc.
• Contact Section — Form + contact details (if relevant)
• Bottom CTA — Final call to action

The two halves

The buttons. One widget called WDT Venue Tabs, sitting just under the page header. Click it and you get a list of tabs. Each row in that list has two fields: Tab Label, which is the words a visitor sees, and Target Section CSS ID, which says which block of content to show.

The blocks. Underneath that widget there is one container for each tab, stacked down the page. Each container carries its own CSS ID. You find it by clicking the container, then Advanced in the left-hand panel, then looking at the CSS ID box.

When someone clicks a tab, the page hides every block and shows the one whose ID matches. Nothing else is going on.

Removing a tab you do not need

This is the job that comes up most often, when a venue only runs one or two kinds of session and the rest of the tabs are empty.

• Click the WDT Venue Tabs widget.
• In the list of tabs, delete the row for the tab you want gone.
• Then hide that tab's content block. Click the block, go to Advanced, open Responsive, and switch on Hide On Desktop, Hide On Tablet and Hide On Mobile. All three of them.
• Press Update, then open the live page and click each remaining tab to check it shows what you expect.

Hide the block rather than deleting it. The content stays safe that way, and unticking those three boxes puts it straight back if the tab is ever wanted again.

The IDs do not shuffle up when you delete a tab. If you remove the Free Tennis tab, the Group Coaching block is still wdt-tab-4. Nothing renumbers, and nothing needs to.

Adding a tab back, or adding a new one

• Find or build the container that holds the content, click it, go to Advanced, and give it a CSS ID. If you are putting back a tab you removed, the block will already have its old ID, so use that.
• For a brand new one, pick something plain and lower case with no spaces, such as wdt-tab-8 or wdt-tab-padel.
• Click the WDT Venue Tabs widget, add a row, type the Tab Label, and put that same ID in Target Section CSS ID.
• Drag the row up or down to set where it appears in the line of tabs. The order of the blocks down the page does not matter.
• Update, then check it on the live page.

A note on What's On

The first tab, What's On, carries no words of its own. It holds the shared promotional banner, which is the same on every venue, so in the editor it can look empty next to the tabs full of session cards. It is not empty, and it does not need anything adding to it.

Venue short addresses

Every published venue and park has a short address. It is wedotennis.co.uk/ followed by the venue's own name, the same name that appears at the end of its full address.

wedotennis.co.uk/ludlow takes a visitor to wedotennis.co.uk/venues/ludlow/

This happens by itself for every venue and park. There is nothing to set up and nothing to add when you create one.

The two older addresses behave the same way. wdtvenues.co.uk/ludlow and wdtwales.co.uk/ludlow both arrive at the same page.

Word addresses

Seven single word addresses go to the Venues page at wedotennis.co.uk/venues/.

/coaching   /courts   /coaches   /team   /schools   /kids   /practice

You can send any of these somewhere else. The steps are below.

Changing where a word address goes

Leave the Source URL as it is. That is the address people are arriving on, so changing it stops the shortcut working.

Colour Palette

Typography

• Oswald — All headings, buttons, badges. Always uppercase. Weights 500-700.
• Montserrat — All body text, labels, descriptions. Weights 400-700.

Special Colour Rules

• WhatsApp buttons — Always green (#25D366), never coral
• First Aid cards — Green theme (#228B22)
• Safeguarding cards — Yellow/Gold theme (#DAA520)
• Section titles — Always have a coral underline bar beneath

WDT Head Office

• Address: New Rd, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford TF2 7AB
• Phone: 01952 984894
• Email: enquiries@wedotennis.co.uk
• WhatsApp: wa.me/4407789954789

Social Media Links

• Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577153278608
• Instagram: instagram.com/wedotennis/
• X (Twitter): x.com/wedotennisuk

Key URLs

• Live Site: wedotennis.co.uk
• Admin Login: wedotennis.co.uk/wp-admin
• Hosting: Liquid Web (Nexcess) — managed WordPress, UK data centre. Nightly backups are kept for 30 days by the host.
• Other domains: wdtvenues.co.uk and wdtwales.co.uk redirect here.
• Equipment store: reached from the Shop menu as Racket Equipment. It is a separate store and is not managed from this site.
• ClubSpark (bookings): clubspark.lta.org.uk/mcrparkstennis
• Corsizio (course bookings): wedotenniscoaching.corsizio.com

If something goes badly wrong

The site is backed up automatically every night by the hosting, and those backups are kept for thirty days. Nothing you do in a day's work is unrecoverable.

There are three levels of undo, in order of how much they affect:

• One page you have just edited — use the history icon at the bottom left of the Elementor editor and step back. Instant, affects nothing else.
• One page, older change — open the page and look at Revisions. WordPress keeps every save.
• The whole site — restoring a nightly backup from the hosting account. This undoes everything since that backup, including orders and enquiries, so it is a last resort and a job for your developer.

If you are not sure which one you need, stop and ask before doing anything else. Carrying on usually makes the fix harder.

The two pages

• /coach-key-docs/ — coaching calendars, marketing assets, certificates, forum presentations
• /venue-key-docs/ — venue marketing assets and key venue documents

Adding or replacing a document

• Upload the file first: Media → Add Media File.
• Copy the file's URL from the media library.
• Edit the Key Docs page with Elementor, click the document list block, and add or edit a row: icon, title, file type, download link.
• Update, then purge the cache.

Every document on both pages is hosted on this site, in the Media library. Nothing on these pages depends on an external host.

Tabs not switching content

The CSS ID in the tab widget must exactly match the CSS ID on the Elementor section. Check for typos, extra spaces, or a # symbol (don't include #). IDs are case-sensitive.

WDT widgets not appearing in Elementor

Make sure the WDT Elementor Widgets plugin is activated. Go to Plugins in the admin sidebar and check it's turned on. If it's not there, re-upload the plugin zip via Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin.

Styles look broken or missing

Try clearing the cache: go to Nexcess → Page Cache and click Save Changes and Clear Site Cache. Also try a hard refresh in your browser (Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac).

If a page still looks unstyled after that, stop and call your developer. Do not keep clearing caches. Each page has its own small stylesheet generated by Elementor, and if one of those has gone missing, clearing the cache again will not bring it back — it needs rebuilding.

A cloned venue keeps showing the wrong address

Click Generate on the unique MLS Number field to give the listing a number of its own, then save again. The address will take. Full explanation in Adding a Venue Quickly.

A section of a page looks empty

First, scroll back up slowly. Several blocks fade in as they come into view and can look blank if you jump down the page quickly. This is the usual explanation.

If it is still empty, check whether a plugin has been switched off. When a plugin that supplies a block is deactivated, the block does not show an error — it simply draws nothing at all, silently, leaving the rest of the page looking normal. Switching off the WeDesignTech Elementor Addon, for example, empties dozens of blocks across the site at once: FAQ answers, the header Book Now button and every testimonial. No page breaks, so it is easy to miss for days — the pages just quietly lose pieces.

So if content disappears from several unrelated pages at once, go to Plugins and check nothing has been deactivated. See Plugins you must not switch off in the plugin section.

The site feels slow on the first click

A page that is already cached loads in under a tenth of a second. A page that is not takes two to three seconds while WordPress builds it. Clearing the whole cache empties it for everyone, so the next visitor to each page pays that cost. Clear it when you need to, but clearing it repeatedly for no reason makes the site feel slow to everybody.

The basket, checkout and My Account pages are never cached, by design — they have to show each shopper their own basket. Those pages will always feel slower than the rest, and that is correct.

Changes not showing on the live site

Always click Update (or Publish) in Elementor first. Then clear the cache from Nexcess → Page Cache. If it still looks old, check in a private/incognito window — your own browser keeps its own copy, which is the most common reason an edit looks like it has not saved.