Publishing a WordPress Website Hosted by CUNY Academic Commons

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Creating a profile on Academic Commons

Go to https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/.If you haven’t, register for the site by clicking on the Register button at the very top right side of the window.

Once your registration is complete, click on the Login button at the very top right side of the window.

Setting-up a New CUNY Academic Commons WordPress site

Selecting & Customizing a Theme

A WordPress theme provides overall design/layout of your site.

Under Appearance, select Themes. Browse and activate the theme you like.

To customize Theme colors, font, designs & layouts, from the Appearance tab, select Customize.

Adding Content

Customizing Navigation Menu

Widgets

WordPress widgets are blocks of content that you can add to your site's sidebars, footers, and other areas.

To see a list of available widgets in your WordPress theme and customize them, in Dashboard, select Widgets under Appearance tab.

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Plugins

A WordPress plugin can extend functionality or add new features to your website.

Learn More

In WordPress hosted by CUNY Academic Commons, you can choose from around 300 available plugins but you may not download a plugin from the Internet.

Sharing your website with your instructor on Blackboard

Changing website visibility

Before you share your website URL with your instructor, make sure that they can access it.

If you selected either "I would like my site to be visible only to users I add to it" or " I would like my site to be visible only to its Admins," you must add your instructor as an Admin or change the visibility parameters that allow non-Admin access.

Dashboard > Settings > Reading

Copy your website URL

To copy your website URL, from Dashboard, click on Visit Site and copy the URL.

Note: Do not copy the URL that ends with /wp-admin/ or other preview link as your instructor will not be able to access it.

Paste your website URL into Blackboard

In Blackboard, navigate to the appropriate assignment, click on Write Submission and paste the URL.

Highlight the pasted URL, and click on the hyperlink icon.
Paste the same URL again under Link Path
Under Target, choose Open in New Window (_blank)
Insert

Submit your work.

Appreciate

Credits:

Created with images by Murat Onder - "Stickers" • Murat Onder - "Stickers" • Joseph Barrientos - "untitled image" • Joseph Barrientos - "untitled image"