Web Content Management

Practical advice, tips, and tools for CAES and Extension web content managers. Browse this page or select one of our categories.

  • mailchimp and wordpress logos combined

    This post describes how to link your WordPress site with a service called MailChimp. MailChimp is an online tool that helps you manage your list of contacts and send nice-looking emails to them. We presuppose that you have a WordPress site with OIT. Read our WordPress “Getting Started” guide if you would like one. In…

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  • In this article: Adding images to a page/post Images without borders Embedding videos Reviewing existing media Adding images to a page/post Inserting an image file is really easy. Just browse to the post (or page) that you want to include an image, open it, and add an Image block to the page. In the Image…

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  • mailchimp and wordpress logos combined

    This article describes how to add a MailChimp subscription form to your WordPress site. We presuppose that you have both a MailChimp account and a WordPress site. If you run into trouble with any of the steps, contact us for help! 1. Add your MailChimp API key to WordPress. 2. Create a sign up form…

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  • A quick how-to document for using AEM 6.3. In this document we’ll discuss: Logging in, New URL; Navigating Sites; Navigating Assets; Navigating Between Sites and Assets; Editing Pages; Using Assets on a Page; Working with Components.

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  • Publishing content to your WordPress site is as easy as using a word processor. With WordPress’s built-in text editor, you can type and format text, add images, add links, quotes, video links and much more. Use this document to familiarize yourself with basic concepts for publishing posts and pages. Publishing tools Posts and pages Posts…

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  • Let’s start with basic. This is a visual tour of the UGA CAES and Extension site theme for WordPress. It also explains some basic concepts, like how posts and pages behave. This refers to the published version of your WordPress site, not the parts you might see when you are editing your WordPress site (that’s…

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  • For the two weeks prior to the update (July 18-Aug. 3), content managers will not have access to AEM. And while the updates that will be made to our sites are not nearly as complex as when we moved from Contribute to Adobe Experience Manager in 2015, there are some steps that you should complete…

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  • How can you use a WordPress site? With a WordPress site, you can share your ideas with others. This has many benefits! For one, it will give you plenty of practice writing about things that you enjoy writing about. It will let others know what you are up to and thinking about. It will also…

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  • Carefully selected and edited images can add a lot to the visual interest of a web page and creating and linking to PDF files is a great way to share your county-specific information with visitors.  Here’s how to get these files uploaded to AEM so you can find them in the Content Finder!

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  • If you have several sections of content within a single Rich Text box and would like to provide some quick page navigation for your visitors, create section anchors and then jump links to those anchors. Here’s how.

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