Projects

Create and edit a fundraising project page — its bilingual story, cover, target, location, timeline, updates and FAQs.

A project is a fundraising page on your public website — a water well, a school fit-out, an emergency appeal. Each project tells its story in Arabic and English, shows a target and how much has been raised, and gives donors a button to give. You create a project as a draft, fill in its details, and publish it when it's ready. This page walks you through the whole form, section by section.

Who can do this. You need a website role. Site Editor can create and edit projects; Site Manager can also publish and delete them. (Owners and Admins can do everything.) If you can open Your website but the New button or the publish/delete actions aren't there, your role doesn't include them — see Members & roles.

Where to find it. Your website → Projects.

Creating a project

A project starts life as an unpublished draft — only you and your team can see it until you publish. You need just three things to begin; everything else is added afterwards on the edit form.

Open Projects and choose New

Go to Your website → Projects. You'll see the projects you already have, with a search box and filters for status and programme. Select New at the top right to open the create form.

Enter a web address (slug)

The slug is the last part of the project's web address — for example water-well-tabora. Use lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens only; no spaces or capitals. Choose something short and readable, as it becomes part of the public link and is awkward to change later.

Add the title in both languages

Fill in the Title in English and in Arabic. Both are required — your site is bilingual, and the title is what donors see first.

Add a short summary (optional)

The Summary is a one- or two-line teaser shown on cards and listings. You can leave it blank for now and write it later; the fuller story lives in the body, which you add on the edit form.

Create

Select Create. The draft is saved and you can open it to fill in the rest. If the slug is already used by another project you'll see that web address is already taken — pick a different one.

The Projects manager with the New button, search box, and the status and programme filtersScreenshot to be added

Editing a project

Open any project from the list to reach the edit form. It's organised into collapsible sections, and each section has its own Save — so you can work on one part, save it, and come back to the rest another time. The timeline, updates and FAQ sections at the bottom save each item on its own as you add it.

The web address (slug) is shown at the top of the form for reference but isn't edited here. If you only have the Site Editor role you can edit every field, but the Publish and Delete actions live on the project list and need a higher role.

Basics — the story

This is the title, summary and body in both languages. The body is the full description donors read on the project page — the need, the plan, who it helps. Write it in Arabic and English; English fills in if an Arabic field is ever left empty, so it's best to complete both.

Media — cover and gallery

The cover is the large image at the top of the project page. Drop in or choose a PNG, JPG or WebP file; you can replace or remove it at any time.

No cover? No problem. If you don't upload one, the page shows a tasteful generated cover — a colour gradient tinted to the project's category, with the category icon — instead of a blank box. Each project gets its own stable colour, so the listing still looks finished even before you add photos.

The gallery is a set of additional photos shown lower on the page. Add as many as you like (the public page shows the first few); images appear in the order you upload them, and there's no reordering — to change the order, remove and re-add.

The Media section showing the cover uploader and the gallery thumbnailsScreenshot to be added

Classification — status, programme, category

Status — Fundraising, In progress, or Completed. This drives the badge donors see and the status filter on your listing.
Programme — optionally group the project under one of your programmes. Leave it as No programme if it stands alone.
Income category — which finance category donations to this project are recorded under. Leave it blank to use the programme's category; set it only if this project should be recorded differently.
Country — where the project takes place.
Featured and Urgent — toggles that let the project stand out on your site.

Funding — target and donate tiers

The target is the fundraising goal, in Omani Rial to three decimals (for example 50000.000). Leave it empty for an ongoing fund with no fixed goal.

Raised and Donors are shown here but can't be edited — they're driven by real donations and update automatically each time a gift is confirmed. This keeps the public totals honest. A project can be overfunded (raised above target); that's a valid, donor-facing state, not an error.

Beneficiaries is an optional count of people helped. Donate tiers are suggested giving amounts (up to twelve) — each an OMR amount plus an optional bilingual impact label, such as "feeds a family for a week" — that appear as quick buttons on the donate form.

The Funding section with the target field, the read-only Raised and Donors figures, and the donate tiers editorScreenshot to be added

Location — put it on the map

To show a map on the project page, paste a Google Maps, Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap link (or a raw latitude, longitude) into the map-link box and select Use. The coordinates fill in automatically and a preview appears. Short links (like maps.app.goo.gl/…) are resolved for you. You can also enter the latitude and longitude by hand, or clear the location entirely. Latitude and longitude are saved together — set both or neither.

Transparency — where donations go

Choose how this project explains the breakdown of a donation:

Use the organisation default — inherit your site-wide transparency note.
Specific to this project — set your own breakdown. Add segments with a bilingual label and a percentage; the percentages must total 100%. You can also add a short trust line.
Don't show — hide the breakdown for this project.

Timeline (phases)

The timeline shows the project's stages. Select Add phase, give it a bilingual name, an order number, a status (Planned, In progress, Completed) and optional planned and actual end dates. Each phase saves on its own. If two phases share the same order number you'll be asked to choose a different one.

Updates — progress posts

Updates are short progress posts with a date — "the well is drilled", with a photo. Select Add update, write a bilingual title and body, optionally add an image, set the date, and save. Each update saves individually and appears newest-first on the project page.

FAQs

FAQs are common questions and answers shown near the bottom of the page. Add each with a bilingual question and answer and an order number; they save one at a time.

The Timeline, Updates and FAQ sections at the foot of the edit form, each with its own add and save controlsScreenshot to be added

Publishing, previewing and deleting

These live on the project list, not the edit form, and need the right role:

Publish / Unpublish (Site Manager) — make the project visible on your live site, or hide it again. A project must be published and your site must be published for it to appear publicly.
Preview — when both are published, open the live public page to check it.
Delete (Site Manager) — remove the project after a confirmation. This is permanent, so prefer Unpublish if you only want to take it down temporarily.

Deleting a project removes the page and its content for good. It does not delete the donations that were recorded against it — those stay in your finance records — but the public page and its timeline, updates and FAQs are gone. Unpublish first if you're unsure.