Documentation:UBC Content Management System Codex
Welcome to the UBC CMS Documentation Codex. Here you can find and contribute to CMS documentation. These pages relate to the UBC CMS Service. They are an effort to document best practices and provide users with tutorials on how to use the WordPress-based CMS service.
Getting Started
- About the UBC CMS Platform
- Requesting a Site
- Examples of UBC Websites Created Through the CMS Service
Themes
UBC CLF Advanced Theme
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
Adding Content
- Overview of the WordPress Dashboard
- Pages and Posts
- Adding Images and Media
- Linking to images
- Videos
- Widgets
- Maps
- Forms
- Adding social media sharing links
Creating the Site Structure
- Menus
- Widgets
- Customizing the Frontpage
- Hiding widgets from a widget area on select pages
- Linking to a category archive page
- Removing the spotlight slideshow from the front page
- Linking an image to a document in the Media Library
- Shortcodes
Adding Functionality to the Site
- Forms
- Adding social media sharing links
- List of Plugins available on the UBC CMS Platform
- Enabling Plugins
- Configuring the Redirection Plugin