Editing a WordPress page

First steps

You can edit a WordPress page at the following web addresses:

• Personal website: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/firstname.lastname/wp-admin/
• Website for business purposes: https://hostname.univie.ac.at/wp-admin/

Click Login with Shibboleth. You will be forwarded to the weblogin of the University of Vienna. Log in with your u:account UserID and the corresponding password.

The standard language option is English. To change the language, click Settings followed by General Settings. Scroll to Site Language and select a language, a time zone as well as a date and time format. Click Save Changes to save these settings.

After installation, click on the Dashboard to change to the main view. Then click Appearance in the left sidebar to make changes.

Select Customize to make choices regarding the looks of your website.

You can choose the respective settings on the left side again.

In the Homepage Settings, choose whether your website should have a post-oriented or static homepage.

In the standard setting, new posts will be listed in chronological order. To select a different order, choose A static page before creating the main page. To do so, enter a page name under New page title.

Click Publish to save and publish all changes.

Creating posts

With the WordPress template available in the system, you can easily create posts. To do so, click Posts followed by Add New.

Enter a title and content for the post. When you are done, click the Publish button to put your post online.

Using menus

If you create pages and/or sub-pages, providing a menu could help visitors to your website find their way around. To set up a menu, got to Dashboard → Appearance → Menus.

Then click on Manage with Live Preview.

A window will pop up in which you can create a new menu.

Managing users

Click Users. You will see at least 2 list entries with the Administrator role::

• The webspace account
• Your personal u:account

To add another user, click Add new.

Enter at least Username and Email.

Then select the Role you want to assign to the user and click Add New User.

Managing widgets and plugins

In the default setting, your website already contains blocks of information called widgets. These can be used to add further elements (audio content, images, etc.) to your website. To edit widgets, go to the Dashboard and click Appearance followed by Widgets.

To remove a widget, select it in the left sidebar and click Delete.

To activate further widgets, click Add a Widget.

Plugins can be used to add functionalities to WordPress. Click Plugins in the left sidebar to see a selection of the available plugins. If you have found a plugin you would like to use, add it by clicking Install Now.