{"id":304,"date":"2009-09-02T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:47:10","slug":"how-to","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"How to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a name=\"get-started\"><\/a>Get Started<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/design-options\/custom\/\"><strong>About Custom Themes and Plugins<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/get-a-wordpress-site\/\">Get a WordPress Site<\/a><br \/>\nRequest a blank WordPress site or request that your existing site be migrated into WordPress.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Stage a new site\" href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/staging-sites\/\">Stage a New Website in BU WordPress<br \/>\n<\/a>Guidelines for preparing a new or redesigned website in a WordPress staging environment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/get-to-your-wordpress-site\/\">Get to Your WordPress Site<\/a><br \/>\nAccess and edit your website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/publish-page\/\">Publish a Page<\/a><br \/>\nBegin creating and displaying content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/accessible-content\/\">Maintain Accessible Content<\/a><br \/>\nUse these resources and 10 key tips to ensure your website meets accessibility laws and guidelines.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/manage-editors\/\">Manage Your Site&#8217;s Editors<\/a><br \/>\nHow to add or remove editors from your WordPress website.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Schedule Posts and Pages\" href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/scheduled-publishing\/\">Schedule Publishing of Posts and Pages<\/a><br \/>\nChoose a date and time in the future to make your content available to the public.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/change-url\/\">Change Your Page URLs<\/a><br \/>\nSteps for editing the web address of a page on your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/anchor-links\/\">Create Anchor Links<\/a><br \/>\nHow to create links that link to elsewhere on the same page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/posts\/\">Post News<\/a><br \/>\nCreate, edit, and categorize posts.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Add an Image Gallery\" href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/image-gallery\/\">Add an Image Gallery<\/a><br \/>\nDisplay a number of images on a single page in a gallery layout.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/find-area-width\/\">Find the Dimensions of a Web Page Element<\/a><br \/>\nDetermine the exact width and height of any part of your site in order to make the most of embedded media.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/include-content\/\">Include Content from a Page, Post, or Media Item in Another Page<\/a><br \/>\nUse the BU Include plugin to embed the content of a page, post, text file or HTML file into another page or post on your site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a name=\"appearance\"><\/a>Change Your Site&#8217;s Appearance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/using-bu-navigation\/\">Manage Your Navigation Bar<br \/>\n<\/a>Control the settings and page order for the primary nav bar, drop-downs, and content navigation widget.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/using-the-mega-navigation\/\">Use the Mega Navigation<br \/>\n<\/a>Control the top navigation, website navigation, and utility navigation locations using the mega menu navigation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/content-banner-image\/\">Set Content Banner Images<\/a><br \/>\nAdd an image directly above the page content, above the content heading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/rotating-images\/\">Configure Rotating Images<\/a><br \/>\nCreate rotating banner images to put on your web page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/edit-html\/\">Edit in HTML<\/a><br \/>\nView your site in HTML format.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/use-custom-styles\">Use Custom Styles (CSS)<br \/>\n<\/a>Change the way your pages look by editing the custom Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/link-lists\/\">Manage Links in Footers and Utility Navigation Menus<\/a><br \/>\nThe Link Lists plugin adds the BU Links widget to your BU WordPress site, as well as adding functionality for editing links in the footer and (for themes that support it) the utility navigation menu.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/bu-landing-pages\/\">Use the Landing Pages template<\/a><br \/>\nSwitch a page template to &#8220;Landing Page&#8221; to access promo boxes, callouts, and feeds of news, events, or child pages styled to work across all devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a name=\"media\"><\/a>Manage Media<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/add-files\/\">Add Files to the Media Library<br \/>\n<\/a>Upload images, PDFs, and videos to the Media Library for easy access and use in your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/link-pdf\/\">Link to a PDF<\/a><br \/>\nMake your uploaded PDF available for download to your WordPress site&#8217;s visitors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/replace-media\/\">Replace existing files in the Media Library<\/a><br \/>\nUpdate items in your Media Library without having to modify every page with links to the file.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/embed-video-or-mymedia\/\">Embed a Video<\/a><br \/>\nInstructions for creating and implementing HTML code to embed your uploaded video into your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/upload-embed-audio\/\">Upload\/Embed Audio Files (Podcasting)<\/a><br \/>\nInstructions for uploading mp3 files to your media library and embed them on a page for a podcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a name=\"features\"><\/a>Add More Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/google-analytics\/\">Google Analytics Integration Guide for BU Websites<\/a><br \/>\nHow to integrate Site-Specific Google Analytics 4 (GA4) properties with your BU WordPress or static website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-online-forms\/\">Create Online Forms<\/a><br \/>\nUse the new Gravity Forms plugin to create forms in a matter of minutes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/majordomo-and-gravity-forms\/\">Manage Majordomo Subscriptions With an Online Form<br \/>\n<\/a>Create a Gravity Form that allows site visitors to manage their own subscriptions to your mailing list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/rss-feed\/\">Add an RSS Feed<\/a><br \/>\nInclude automatically-updated information from another site on your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/embed-a-twitter-timeline\/\">Add a Twitter Timeline or a Twitter Button (Follow, @Mention)<\/a><br \/>\nShow tweets of a single user or those that match specific search criteria anywhere on your site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/embed-instagram\">Embed Instagram Post into a WordPress Site<\/a><br \/>\nEmbed Instagram Post onto any WordPress page or BU Text Widget where you want the post to appear.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/custom-news\/\">Use Custom News Options<\/a><br \/>\nUse these tools to create news feeds, add headline thumbnails, and to create custom pages to display your news posts in a variety of ways, complete with automatically-paginated link menus on your news page archives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/restore-version\/\">Restore Previous Page Version<\/a><br \/>\nFind and choose an older page revision.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/improve-your-sites-seo\/\">Improve Your Site&#8217;s Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<\/a><br \/>\nTips and guidelines for using the tools available in WordPress to improve your site&#8217;s presence in search engine result listings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/top-level\/\">Enable Top Level Pages<\/a><br \/>\nCreate new parent pages for your site.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sharedaddy\" href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/sharedaddy\/\">Use the Sharedaddy Social Media Plugin<\/a><br \/>\nAdd features to share your site and posts on a number of popular social networks.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Faculty\/Staff Profiles\" href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/profiles\/\">Add Faculty\/Staff Profiles<\/a><br \/>\nCreate special posts with information about your faculty and staff members.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-slideshows\/\">Create Slideshows<br \/>\n<\/a>Create and embed image slideshows with or without captions using this easy-to-use plugin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/sortable-searchable-tables\/ \">Make Sortable and Searchable Tables<br \/>\n<\/a>With two small adjustments to the HTML of a table, you can make the data easier to arrange and\/or search through.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/embed-course-feeds\/\">Embed Feeds from the Course Catalog<\/a><br \/>\nAdd live information from BU\u2019s course catalog directly to their page using the Course Feed plugin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tech\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/bu-text-widget\/\">Add a Customizable Text Widget<\/a><br \/>\nThe BU Text Widget is a simple, yet powerful widget that provides the ultimate flexibility in publishing sidebar content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/redirect-a-url\/\">Create a Redirect URL<\/a><br \/>\nUse the Safe Redirect Manager to create a custom URL under your home page address that redirects to another page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/custom-meta-tags\/\" title=\"Custom Meta Tags\">Custom Meta Tags<\/a><br \/>\nCustom meta tags have several uses, the most popular of which are enhancing how your pages appear when shared on social media, and verifying site ownership for Google Webmaster Tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Started About Custom Themes and Plugins Get a WordPress Site Request a blank WordPress site or request that your existing site be migrated into WordPress. Stage a New Website in BU WordPress Guidelines for preparing a new or redesigned website in a WordPress staging environment. 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