Web Content Management
Practical advice, tips, and tools for CAES and Extension web content managers. Browse this page or select one of our categories.
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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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We all upload images to add to our web pages or PDF documents that we’ll link to, and using a strong file naming convention is important!
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Cleaning up assets by removing them from the Content Finder is a very good protocol to follow! Here’s a new method to use.
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Let’s talk about what the WordPress shortcode is. Here’s the definition from WordPress.com, “A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.” You can apply…
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These instructions apply to county website “Contact Us” pages and are meant to ensure that personnel are displayed in a consistent way across all counties. Step 1. Modify Personnel List The Personnel List component on your Contact page should be in the “Plain List” format, and the list should be ordered with CEC at the top. The personnel…
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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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Your site is live. You’ve edited a web page, but the modifications are not showing in your browser! Where’d your changes go???
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At our recent AEM trainings for county website content managers, we emphasized that all county websites would be launched 6 weeks after the training date. Here are the steps that you need to take between now and your site’s go-live date.
Posted in: Adobe Experience Manager