Knowledge Guide

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This is a guide to Web Publishing’s most referenced knowledge base articles on NYU IT ServiceLink. Use this manual to learn more about how WordPress works and find solutions that are specific to Web Publishing. If you can not find what you are looking for, try searching for more articles via the Web Publishing knowledge base.

First Steps

Accessing your website

Creating a new website

Creating a site from a template

Importing (or exporting) site content

Managing your site settings

Privacy and visibility options

Choosing a theme

Next Steps

Creating and editing posts and pages

Managing posts and pages

Duplicating a post or page

Scheduling a post or page

Adding categories and tags

Adding media to a post or page

List of available plugins

Understanding Differences

Web Publishing vs WordPress

Static vs dynamic home page

Widgets vs plugins

Categories vs tags

Visual vs text editors

Inserted vs featured image

Collaborating

Understanding user roles

Adding and managing users

Changing your site’s owner

Managing editing permissions

Managing comments and permissions

Leading asynchronous discussions

Syndicating content from other blogs

Designing

Customizing your menu

Adding an image gallery

Using the visual Customizer

Using Custom CSS

Displaying animated GIFs

Embedding

Embedding from YouTube or Vimeo

Embedding from NYU Stream

Embedding a PDF or Google Drive document

Adding or embedding a calendar

Embedding a Google Group

Accessibility

Making your site accessible

Checking your content for compliance

Adding alternative text to images

Creating accessible tables

Using the Accessibility plugin

Pedagogy

Creating a quiz

Inserting LaTeX equations

Sending emails to students

Accepting submissions

Displaying Zotero citations

Advanced

Improving search ranking

Analytics on your site

Honoring a GDPR request

Changing your font with CSS

Changing color using CSS

Hiding elements using CSS

What is a Gutenberg Block

Displaying posts within pages

Requesting Central NYU Theme

Troubleshooting

Deprecated, non-accessible themes

Reassigning menus after a theme change

Reassigning widgets after a theme change

Adding tags in VoiceOver with Safari

Gaining access after leaving NYU

Deleting your site