Choosing your domain name is the first step in getting started with staking your claim on the web. Your domain name is a unique web address (e.g. yourname.school.edu) that can be used to build out your own digital presence. As you make your choice, there are a few considerations to keep in mind: Your Domain Name Must […]
The cPanel, or control panel, is your landing page for Rowan University that lets you easily access and manage the files and applications of your account. Once logging into your account, you can see your active domains and personal account information at a glance. Applications Rowan University has four featured applications listed, but there are […]
Step One: Signing up for an Account The first step will be to sign up for an account at Reclaim Hosting. This link will take you directly to their Student/Individual Hosting plan option. – If you already have a Top-Level domain (i.e. yourdomain.com) choose the I will use my existing domain and update my nameservers option. – If […]
Once logged at https://rowandh.org you’ll be at the homepage of your control panel. Scroll down and look under Web Applications, then click the WordPress button. This page gives you more information about the WordPress software. To begin the install click Install this Application in the upper-righthand corner. On the next page, the installer will ask for some information about this install. The […]
Now that you have your WordPress installed and running, it’s time to look at some basic settings for your site. The place that you will access the settings for your site is called the Dashboard, and it provides the starting point for accessing all of your sites dials and knobs. The setting we will look at […]
When it comes to WordPress, customizing the look of your site is simple and straightforward. When you install WordPress, the default (or pre-set) theme is called Twenty Seventeen (as of WordPress version 4.8). It is a very customizable theme. You can find general information about Twenty Seventeen here. In addition to Twenty Seventeen, you’ll have other themes available […]
The primary activity that you’re likely to be doing on your WordPress site is publishing content. The content could be the text you write, pictures you take, videos or audios (which may be hosted on another site), or other media that you’ve found elsewhere on the Web. WordPress makes it very easy to publish media […]
WordPress is a very flexible platform for creating full-blown websites, not just blogging sites. This page will show you how to change the “front page” of your website. As we have said before, WordPress provides two primary content types for you two work with: posts and pages. Posts, as in blog posts, are a somewhat complex form of […]
Part of the popularity of WordPress is how easily it makes a website functional and yet attractive. One of the smaller details that you might want to adjust is how the addresses to your blog posts are structured. Permalink is the name given to the address of an individual blog post because they are “permanent links”. For […]
Start at your site’s Dashboard and choose Appearance the Menus. In the Custom Menus interface that appears, type a name for your menu. This can be anything you want. It doesn’t get displayed anywhere; it’s used by WordPress to identify and place your menu. Once you’ve typed the name, click Create Menu. You’ll now be presented with a screen that includes […]