Documentation:UBC Content Management System

UBC Content Management System
Overview: http://cms.ubc.ca

Please Note: A new CLF WordPress Theme (named UBC Collab) was added to the WordPress CMS service in March 2013. Some of the documentation here currently pertains to an older version of the CLF WordPress Theme. New and revised documentation will soon be added to include helpful tips for sites using UBC Collab. Do you have issues with the theme? If so please document here.

Welcome to the Documentation Codex for the UBC CMS Service. Here you can find and contribute to the UBC CMS support and help documentation. The pages below are an effort to document best practices and provide users with tutorials on how to use the WordPress-based CMS service. You can also download this material as a pdf wiki book.

Getting Started

• About the UBC CMS Platform
• Differences between UBC CMS and UBC Blogs
• Requesting a Site
• Examples of UBC Websites Created Through the CMS Service

UBC Collab Theme

An implementation of the CLF 7 in WordPress.

• Theme Options Overview
• Theme Options Index
• UBC CLF Options
• Layout Options
• Frontpage Options
• Navigation Options
• Display Options
• SEO
• Export
• Import
• Global Theme Options

Compatibility with UBC Advance Theme

• Plugins - All third party plugins are available in UBC Collab theme.
• Theme options and theme specific features - please visit http://cms.ubc.ca for latest progress.

Current UBC Collab Issues

UBC CLF Advanced Theme

The UBC Advanced Theme is now currently being phased out, please consider switching to the new CLF theme. You can find instructions regarding switching here

The UBC Advanced Theme allows users to develop UBC branded websites using the full UBC common look and feel.

• Theme Options Overview
• Theme Options Index
• UBC CLF Options
• Layout Options
• Font and Colour Options
• Navigation Options
• Display Options
• Frontpage Options
• Custom Fields Options
• SEO Options
• Export Option
• Import Option
• Global Theme Settings
• Page Templates

Adding Content

• Overview of the WordPress Dashboard
• Pages and Posts
• Categories
• Tags
• Adding Images, Media and Other Files
• Linking to images
• Videos
• Adding Profiles
• Configuring People Profiles
• Widgets
• Maps
• Forms
• Adding social media sharing links
• Embedding RSS Feeds
• Shortcodes

Creating the Site Structure

• Menus
• Widgets
• Customizing the Front Page
• Dividing a page into columns
• Hiding widgets from a widget area on select pages
• Linking to a category archive page
• Embedding Google Maps
• Embedding UBC Events Calendar
• Embedding content from the UBC Wiki
• Inserting a spotlight rotation slideshow in a Page
• Removing the spotlight slideshow from the front page
• Linking an image to a document in the Media Library
• Setting up the search bar (CLF)
• Shortcodes
• Page Templates

Adding Functionality to the Site

• Plugins
• Enabling Plugins
• Forms
• UBC ePayment Forms
• Adding social media sharing links
• Adding the Twitter Widget
• Configuring the Redirection Plugin
• Adding Links/Blogroll
• Configuring the HTML editor to create tables

Custom Coding

• Adding Javascript Files to Site Pages
• Adding Custom CSS
• Adding borders to an HTML table
• Custom Themes

Privacy

• Site Visibility
• Password Protect an Individual Page
• Private Feed Keys
• Delete a site

User Management

• Adding Users
• Disabling Comments On a Page
• Disabling Comments On a Post
• Disabling Comments Site-Wide (CLF Theme)

Final Steps

• Adding Google Analytics
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• "Publishing" the site - Going Live

Site Migrations

• Site Migration - using the Import/Export process

Questions?

• How to - A list of short tutorials on how to get stuff done. Add your questions and we'll try to answer them.
• Knowledge Base - A very informal space where we capture help requests. Eventually this content will be moved into the main help pages.
• Index - An index of UBC CMS support pages.

Support

If you couldn't find an answer to your question on the UBC Wiki, you can leave your question on the Wiki, send us a support ticket or visit us for a one-on-one in-person clinic.

• Send a ticket to UBC CMS support: http://support.cms.ubc.ca/submit-question-form/
• In-person clinic: Select the post with your desired attendance date found in the "Upcoming Clinic and Training" section under the "RSVP for Clinics" heading.