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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 […]

Many people don’t notice the Screen Options menu, appearing in the upper right-hand corner when editing a post or page.  If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t find settings you might be looking for, for example, discussion (commenting) settings or the revisions history, try looking under the Screen Options menu. 1. To access these options, […]

In addition to adding individual images to a post or page, you can also add an image gallery. 1. From the Edit Post or Page screen, put your cursor where you would like to add the image gallery, and click the Add Media button. 2. Click Create Gallery on the left-hand side of the next […]

How do I… change the information in my profile? change my avatar (profile picture)? change the name on my profile? How do I change the information in my profile? To get to your profile page, click My OpenLab in the main menu. Click the Edit Profile button beneath your avatar […]

How Do I… put my resume on the OpenLab? You said something about “hosting my resume.” create a Portfolio or ePortfolio? find the link to my Portfolio? include an image or video in my Portfolio? change the menu at the top of my Portfolio site? change the title of […]