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Basics
To make changes to your Wordpress site, please follow these steps to log in:
1. Go to your url of your website given after your site has been created. Example: https://faculty.uccs.edu/esample/
2. To edit the site, go to the admin dashboard. The dashboard can be found by adding wp-admin to the end of your url. Example: https://faculty.uccs.edu/esample/wp-admin
3. Log in with your UCCS email and password
4. This will now bring you to the dashboard to edit the site.
When you first open the Dashboard there is a lot of content. At the top the bar contains the title of your site and a new option to create things like new pages. On the right is your profile and you can access account settings there.
On the left is the dashboard menu. It has a lot of options. Typically most users use the media, pages, and appearance tabs.
1. Visit the dashboard (https://faculty.uccs.edu/esample/wp-admin/)
2. Hover over the appearance tab on the left side of the dashboard. Select the Menus option.
3. Under Menu Structure give the new menu a name, such a Main Menu or Navigation Menu. Under Menu Settings, select Main Header Menu. Press create menu to create the base of your menu.
4.Once your menu is created, you can now add the pages you would like. Under add menu items to the left are several options. Look under pages. Then click view all. The pages you would like to add press the check box, then add to menu.
5. To set the order of the items, drag them. Note that pages named "Home" will have the icon used for them. Please also note at this time submenus are not supported due to how Wordpress theme is.
When you are done with any changes make sure to press save menu and then the changes will be reflected immediately.
Other Important Features
To add an offsite link to the menu, go to custom links and fill out the url you would like the button to link to.
Pages
A Wordpress basic webpage structure mainly consists of a page header at the top which will contain UCCS's logo and a menu (after it has been created), followed by the main content, and ends with the page footer. The main content section is where you will put your content or information. The header and footer will already be configured for convenience. The site header can be changed for the site title.
Navigate to your dashboard and select the pages menu button. Once you have reached the pages page, you can press the add new page button.
You can also press the new option on the top of the menu and select page.
First add a page title. Once you have done that you can add content. Please note it will not show the menu or the header and footer when in the page edit view and some elements may look slightly different in edit mode.
How to add new objects to your page. Wordpress now works on a system using Blocks. All elements of the page can be hand built and dragged using the blocks system. To view all of the blocks, press the plus button in the upper left corner.
For some example page layouts visit:
To learn more about Wordpress Blocks visit:
Log into your Wordpress Dashboard. Once you are logged in you can edit a page two different ways:
1. You can go to page you would like to edit directly and click on the edit page button in the top left corner.
2. You can also go to the pages section and then hover over the page name and press edit
To update an existing page this is a similar process however the button to publish changes looks a bit different. Once you have made your changes and are ready to post, press the update button and it will automatically publish the changes.
To publish a Wordpress page makes it viewable by anyone and allows it to show in menus. To publish a page, press the publish button in the upper right corner while editing a page. Once you have pressed this it will ask you to confirm. You can click on the little arrows and change options such as making the page private only for site editors or changing the time of when the page is published. Once you press publish your page is now live. This can also be used to update a page to become a draft again.
