The academic portfolio template is designed to create an online presence for faculty and graduate students. Here you can publish a brief introduction of yourself and list your professional accomplishments, as well as your CV, Research, Teaching, and Service.  The … Continue reading →

Start off fresh with our default template.  This plain vanilla WordPress template has no presets and you are free to build a site from scratch.  

The Commons bundles some commonly used plugins together into a package to make it easier for members to quickly activate the plugins they need. To see our plugin packages go to Plugins > Plugin Packages (circled below): When you activate … Continue reading →

  When you create a site on the Commons, you need to pick a template.  (If you are not creating the site for teaching or for an academic portfolio, you just choose the default template. ) Listed below are our … Continue reading →

On the Commons, you can associate a site to a group.  This is extends the functionality of both the group and the site.  The group may be private, but it can have a public site.  Or both can be private. … Continue reading →

Site Visibility To adjust the privacy settings on your individual or group site go, on your WordPress dashboard to Settings >> Reading. Select one of the five visibility options. To make your site open to everyone on the web, choose … Continue reading →

Widgets are small blocks of content that can be placed in any “widgetized” or widget-ready area of your site.  Depending on your theme, these areas are generally in the sidebar or footer of your site.  Widgets can be dynamic (like … Continue reading →

You may feel overwhelmed by the number of settings a WordPress has. This number is compounded when you start to add plugins or change your theme. All configuration changes occur on your Dashboard.  Highlighted below are a couple of places … Continue reading →

Getting Started With Content To add content or to make any changes to your site, you’ll need to go to your WordPress dashboard. The dashboard is where you control everything about your site. Here you will enter content as “pages” … Continue reading →