Wordpress
Introduction to WordPress Overview
Last Updated: January 19, 2026WordPress is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used for setting up a blog, website, shop, and more. In fact, it’s one of the most popular CMS’s on the web. This guide goes over the general terminology and features and functions of the backend of WordPress. Dashboard The initial area you see when…
Installing WordPress
Last Updated: June 23, 2026Once you’ve been set up with a Domain of One’s Own account, you’ll be able to install a number of different applications to help you create a website or digital repository. WordPress is just one example, but it’s the most popular content management system on the web today, so it’s a great choice if this…
WordPress Editor
Last Updated: June 23, 2026Blocks The visual editor that is used in WordPress is a bit different than other visual editors you might have used before. The WordPress Editor uses blocks to transform the way you create content, turning a single document into a collection of discrete elements with an explicit, easy-to-tweak structure. The block editor brings you an effortless page- and…
WordPress Settings
Last Updated: June 25, 2026Your WordPress installation will work absolutely fine with the default settings as they are, but if you want to change your homepage, choose whether someone can comment on your posts, or tweak the default URL for your posts, you can find all these options in WordPress settings. General Settings You can access general settings by…
Posts and Pages
Last Updated: June 25, 2026We’ll now take a look at how you add posts and pages to your WordPress website. In WordPress, you’re able to add different types of content to your site as either a post or a page, depending on what goal you have in mind. Posts are periodical pieces of content such as blog posts, news…
Categories, Tags, and Menus
Last Updated: June 25, 2026Once you start to fill up your site with pages and posts, things can start to look cluttered. Categories, tags, and menus can help group some ideas, separate others, and help users navigate to where they need to go. Categories are broad sections you can use to group posts together. For a sports website, categories…
Themes and Customizing Your Site
Last Updated: June 25, 2026With WordPress, it’s easy to change the entire look and feel of your site in just a few clicks – without changing any of the page or post content you’ve created. Your site’s theme dictates things like colors, typography, layout, animations, and more. WordPress has two different types of themes. Classic themes and block themes….
Classic vs Block Themes
Last Updated: June 25, 2026WordPress has thousands of themes that you can choose from, each giving you a unique website and experience depending on what you want your site to look like. There are two different types of themes that you will encounter with WordPress: classic themes and block themes. But what does that mean, and what are the…
Basic Privacy
Last Updated: June 25, 2026WordPress is a platform intended to allow you to share your thoughts and ideas freely and easily with the world. However, there are options to publish to a more limited audience. The first way is to limit who can find your website. That is done by keeping search engines, like Google, from seeing (known as…
Changing Your Display Name
Last Updated: June 23, 2026While using WordPress you may want to have your name display differently than the default username display. WordPress allows you to have several options that are within your control. What are my display name choices? You can change your display name on posts to appear in the following ways: How do I change my display…
Themes and Plugins – Recommendations
Last Updated: September 30, 2026We often get asked for theme and plugin recommendations. It can be difficult to make such recommendations because the theme or plugins you need will depend on what you are trying to accomplish on your site. Below are some suggestions based on what we’ve seen and used, but by no means are these the only…
Uninstalling WordPress
Last Updated: June 23, 2026There are many reasons as to why you would want to uninstall a WordPress application. This can be to save storage space on your domain or you have an old site you no longer want to use. Step 1: Selecting the Application to Be Uninstalled In cPanel, under the Applications section, click on “My Apps”…
Best Practices for Handling Media
Last Updated: June 25, 2026WordPress offers many options for adding content to your website: paragraph text, headings, lists, audio, video, etc. Having a large selection of content options can be extremely useful, however, it is important to recognize that all types of content take up different amounts of storage. A blog post with only paragraph text is likely to…
Cloning a WordPress Installation
Last Updated: June 25, 2026Have you accidentally installed WordPress on yourdomain.com/blog rather than just yourdomain.com? This issue occurs because Installatron (the tool which installs apps on your cPanel account) puts in the /blog by default whenever you create a WordPress site, and you have to remove the “/blog” during the setup process. It happens to the best of us,…
Creating Footnotes in WordPress
Last Updated: November 18, 2024Below is an example of what footnotes will look like: Want More Help? Learn more about the different ways to use WordPress through our WordPress guides. Or book an appointment with the Digital Knowledge Center. Written by Haley Gosman 11/14/24
Adding a New User to a WordPress Site
Last Updated: June 25, 2026Adding Users This guide is useful if you’re doing a group project or teaching a class and would like to have multiple people contributing to one website. The process is quick and easy. 4. For the username, their NetID would work well but this can be anything the user may want. 5. For the email…
Resetting your WordPress Password
Last Updated: June 25, 2026IMPORTANT: Please note these directions are only for accessing an individual WordPress application and not accessing your Domain of One’s Own Account. If you are trying to access your cPanel dashboard please login in at umw.domains where you will use your NetID and password. Please see our guide on Accounts & Passwords for more information….
Migrating Sites@UMW to DoOO
Last Updated: May 21, 2025Have a site on Sites@UMW that you want to move your Domain of One’s Own account? This guide will walk you through the steps of transferring a Sites@UMW site to Domain of One’s Own. Download the Export File Note: This export file only includes your content like posts and pages (and not your theme and…
Feeds (RSS)
Last Updated: June 25, 2026What is a feed? A feed (often called RSS or RSS feed) is a stream of posts or comments that is updated when new content is published to your WordPress site. WordPress automatically creates a feed of your content unless you mark your blog as private. To learn more about the various feeds that are generated…