UCSC Faculty WordPress Service

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What is WordPress for Faculty?

The Faculty Website service provides faculty, researchers, and graduate students with ready access to easy-to-use web publishing tools for promoting their research and professional activities.

WordPress is a website management system that allows you to create websites with very little technical or design expertise.  It comes with many themes and plugins, a relatively easy-to-learn editing environment, and a host of tools to make your website look fantastic.  

 

The Benefits

  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Web-based editing, no desktop software needed
  • Ability to add others to help manage the content on your website(s).
  • Built-in version control
  • Built-in search
  • Images and video embedding for a multi-media experience
  • Built-in themes allow you to focus on the content, not on design
  • High availability, robust, and secure environment
  • Nightly backups

 

The Limitations

  • Programming with languages such as PHP or Ruby, shell access, JavaScript, or custom databases are not part of this service
  • Limited to installed plugins.
  • Limited to installed themes.

 

Eligibility

The WordPress service is available to all faculty, grads, and research staff in support of professional, academic, research, and scholarly activities. The service is not intended for undergraduate students, staff, or administrative websites.

 

Getting Help

Self-service help is available on this website and a large number of very short video tutorials are available from the WordPress administrative dashboard.  You can also simply click the Help & Support button in the lower right-hand corner of the dashboard to contact CampusPress directly.

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