We are ready to roll out some significant changes to www.augsburg.ac, the first set of major changes since we moved to WordPress last year. For the sake of tracking each generation of the website, we’re posthumously assigning the designation 1.0 to the first version (launched last year) and 2.0 to this update.

Here is a summary of what’s new and what’s different:

• Mobile-friendly responsive framework
• Mega menu
• Home page changes
• Department contact information (moved to the top of the page)
• Helpful “shortcodes” for checklists, page with sidebar, columns, links to files, and floating information boxes Continue reading “Augsburg.ac 2.0”

Repeating calendar events

Do you have to submit separate calendar requests for the same event if it repeats on one or more days?

Yes.

Why?

Because when we, here in the Marketing and Communication office, add something to the calendar, we don’t have the option to mark the event as “repeating.” Nor do we have a way to simply duplicate an event and change the date. We have to put in all the information manually, again, just as we did for the first event. Submitting separate event requests ensures we put everything on the calendar that needs to be there.

Here are some quick guidelines for what to do and what to avoid as you create or edit your website content. These are the basics. Continue reading “General Guidelines”

If you have a page with a lot of content, you may want to provide links at the top of the page that will jump a visitor to a certain portion of the page. We call this kind of link a “page jump,” so I will refer to these as “jump links.” Here’s how you can do this easily in WordPress. Continue reading “Linking to a part of a page”

How to change the page title/headline

The orange title at the top of the content area for each page is the headline.

By default, the headline is the page title. So you can change it by changing the page title. Continue reading “Page Title”

How to create a Faculty page

Faculty site – All faculty pages live in the Faculty site rather than in your department’s site. After you log in, go to “My Sites” in the upper left and select “Faculty” from the list there. Once you are in the Faculty site, you can create your page. Continue reading “Faculty Pages”

Update: August 2016

The Contact Information is now managed in the Customizer. See my post about the customizer for a complete tutorial.