If you are having problems logging into your website on www.augsburg.edu or inside.augsburg.edu, see my post about how to log in and follow those instructions exactly. Continue reading
Category Archives: Documentation
Sidebar / Widgets
The area on the right side of your website that contains your website’s menu and other content is called the Sidebar. The part of your sidebar below your website’s menu is a Widget area. You can manage this area by going to the Widgets admin screen on your website. Continue reading
Page Layout Shortcodes
There are a few shortcodes built into the www.augsburg.edu website template that can help you with page layouts.
You can copy these onto your page and add your own content. Continue reading
How to Copy and Paste properly
Whenever you copy and paste content from a website or a document (Word doc, Google Doc, etc,) into a web page in WordPress, you’re also inadvertently copying code that you do not see. WordPress has gotten better over time at filtering out this code, but it doesn’t catch everything. While the page may look fine to you, there could be all sorts of problematic things happening in the code. Here’s an example of what it can look like:
This can have terrible implications for your page. It may cause unwanted yet minor issues, such as changing some colors and fonts on your page, but it can also cause more major damage, such as putting <div> tags on the page that can ultimately wreak havoc with the page layout.
The solution: paste your text in the Text tab (see above) and then format the text as needed in the Visual tab. You can use the Visual tab, but be aware that you may have to go back later and fix problem spots.
Linking to an email address
Linking to an email address is done almost the same way as creating any other text link. So if you don’t know how to create a text link, read my post about how to create a text link.
The Easy Way: Shortcode
If you are editing a page on www.augsburg.edu, you can use this handy shortcode. Just replace the email address with the one you want to use. It will display your email address and properly hyperlink it. Continue reading
Changing your display name
If you have a blog, you may have noticed that when you write a post it displays your name as the author of the post like this:
You can change what is displayed there. It will be your username by default, but that doesn’t look great. What if you want it to say “Kim Stone” instead of “stonek”? Here’s how you change it.
Getting around in the new theme
If you have been using the website for a while, you should have no trouble managing your website in the new template. Most things are the same, but a couple of things are different. Here’s a video to help you navigate it. I will write out full instructions later and link to those.
Embedding things on your site
Embed HTML code
You may find yourself needing to embed something on your page. You have a chunk of HTML code. This could be for a variety of purposes: Continue reading
Infobar and Infobox
Infobar
You can put an infobar on your page using this shortcode:
[infobar link="your_url_here" text="Register for our event"]
link=”x” contains the URL it will link to, and the text=”x” contains the text that will display in your infobar. Continue reading
Text Links
A link is a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to go to a new page. There are a couple of ways to add links to your posts or pages. You can use either the Visual editor or the Text editor, as described below. Continue reading