How Much Do You Know About WordPress Roles and Permissions?

As a Wordpress site administrator, you can add users and assign them different permission levels. These permission levels get pretty granular. For instance, you may want some folks to draft things, but have them reviewed before publishing them. You may want to share site administration with another person (always a good idea), or allow other people broader privileges to edit other's content or upload files. The Wordpress.org codex has a very detailed breakdown of what all of these user roles mean. Bookmark this site as a reference for when you assign permissions to different people to edit your sites. http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities Happy Wordpress! … [Read more...]

New Tutorial on Managing the Users on your Site

Did you know that you can add users on your site yourself, without the intrusion of the system administrator or webmaster? Did you also know that everyone in your department is automatically an "Author" on your site? To find out about what all this means, plus how to use Wordpress user management tools in UMW.EDU, visit the new tutorial video and instructions > … [Read more...]

Randomize Your Slideshows!

Now you can click a button and have your Wordpress slideshows display in random order! For more, visit the tutorial at http://technology.umw.edu/wordpress101/make-it-spiffy/department-home-page-design/making-a-slideshow/   … [Read more...]

Division Policy Manuals Live on Web Site

You may not get excited about this kind of thing, but I'm enough of a geek to think it's the bees knees! Now, each major division has a "policies" page that loads directly from an XML feed from BoardDocs. Translation: Our UMW Policies Manual is shaping up, and the days of disjointed online policies are OVER. Check out these pages: President: http://president.umw.edu/policies Provost: http://provost.umw.edu/policies Administration and Finance: http://adminfinance.umw.edu/policies Advancement: http://advancement.umw.edu/policies Student Affairs: http://students.umw.edu/policies Foundation: http://foundation.umw.edu/policies … [Read more...]

UMW Community Update: Status of Web Site

Now that the fall semester is coming to a close, I wanted to keep everyone informed regarding some issues we've encountered since the launch of the new site, as well as planned changes and enhancements: Broken Links on Web Sites: After an initial push to fix broken links on critical sites, as well as working with some departments directly to get this done, we are still getting isolated reports about broken links. Please know that other than the absolute upper-levels of the Web site, these fixes need to be made by individual department web administrators. To that end, we are in the process of running a script/report of all broken links to distribute to web administrators. If you find a broken link, please report it to the department, or to the webmaster, and we will work with that department to get a fix for it. Remember when you are reporting a broken link, PLEASE GIVE THE URL OF THE PAGE WHERE YOU SAW THE LINK. We can't fix it if we don't know where it is! Broken Links in … [Read more...]