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A widget is a tool that adds different functions to your site. Most sites come with certain widgets already installed, but you can add to and remove them by following the steps below. 1. Go to your site Dashboard and click Appearance > Widgets in the left-hand menu. 2. Choose a widget and […]

Changing your site’s header image is a quick and easy way to customize your site. A header image refers to the image that appears at the top of every page in many themes (see example below). Depending on your theme, however, the header image will appear differently. 1. To change your site’s header, you […]

Akismet Widget Akismet is a spam catching plugin. This widget displays how much spam has been caught on a particular site by Akismet. Archives The Archives Widget organizes your previously published posts by month. This can be handy for readers who want to browse your older content. Calendar Archives Calendar widget that make your monthly/daily […]

I’m trying to embed a YouTube video in my post or page, but the video won’t embed and all I see is a link to the video. I tried to upload a file to my site and I’m getting an error message that the site has reached its size quota. I’m trying […]

I don’t know my City Tech email and/or password. How do I sign up for the OpenLab? I’m trying to create an account but the dropdown where I choose my account type is blank so I can’t choose anything. I signed up for the OpenLab but I’m not getting the confirmation email. […]

Plugins are tool that add custom features and functions to your site. Below is a list of all the plugins installed on the OpenLab. These are available to activate on any Course, Project, Club, or Portfolio site. Admin Commenters Comments Count“Next to all appearances of each commenter’s name in the admin, this plugin shows a […]

“ShareThis” adds a social media bar to all posts and pages (and the site itself), allowing your followers, members or readers to easily share things across outside social platforms. You can even click the green “Share” button in the bar and then choose multiple platforms to share with simultaneously (that is, you can share on both your Twitter […]

FeedWordPress is a plugin that pulls the posts from a site or multiple sites (using their RSS feed), and aggregates them on another so that they appear on that site’s main blog page. There are many ways different OpenLab members could use this plugin.  Some faculty use it to draw posts from one site to another, […]

To quote Ryan Cordell‘s article on the plug-in: “Anthologize was developed as a way for scholars to easily publish blog content—from a personal research blog, a course blog, or scholarly group blog, or the like—in a number of formats”: Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress […]

Gravity Forms is a very robust plugin that can do many different things, from polling users, collecting contact information, to organizing reservations for events, and more. In addition, it can be a great way for site members to submit work–either students in a course, or members of a project or club.  If used right, this […]