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.
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 “Embedding things on your site”
Shortcodes are incredibly useful. They allow you to do complicated things with short, uncomplicated code. But there is one thing that can make them misbehave: line breaks between shortcodes. Continue reading “Line Breaks in Shortcodes”
In the last week, I have encountered two situations where an Augsburg web page had been put together using nothing but images. The pages had text content, but the text was part of images. I’ve seen instances of this before, but not as severe as what I saw in these two pages. So I decided it was time to address this. Continue reading “Text in Images”
Update: March 2020. While the information below is still accurate, your department may prefer to use Google Drive. It’s best to share from a Google Drive account owned by your department (rather than through an individual’s Google account), and Google Shared Drive is ideal for this. Talk to your LFC about Google Shared Drive, and how to to get one set up.
Here’s a video explaining how to do this. Watching in full-screen mode is recommended; might be difficult to see what’s going on otherwise. Text explanation is below the video.
The www.augsburg.edu website, as well as inside.augsburg.edu WordPress sites, do not allow you to upload any files except images. If you want to link to documents on your website, here’s how you should do it. Continue reading “Managing Documents (Web Folders)”
Headings organize a web page’s content into logical and digestible chunks. Here’s what the headings look like on this page:
