Contact email for website questions: [email protected]

First step for everything: go to arc.umich.edu/wp-admin, and log in with your UMICH credentials

Adding staff member

1. Take picture of staff member and crop to 150x150px outside of wordpress
2. Copy existing staff member page, or create “new staff member”
3. Make sure to fill out “last name” field -- that’s how the staff page sorts them alphabetically
4. Add photo using “set featured image” link in right column. 

Removing staff member

1. Navigate to staff page and click “edit”
2. Change status to “draft” or just “move to trash”

Adding announcement

1. Click “new > post”
2. Enter content….
3. At least one category must be selected in order for the announcement to show up on the front page

Adding event listing

1. Click “new > event”
2. Enter content…
3. To broadcast to other ARC sites, go to the “broadcast” box on the right side, click “show all,” and select the sites you’d like to broadcast to (this option may not show up for all users -- you have to be a site administrator I think…?)

Editing an existing page

1. After signing in, navigate to page and click “edit page” in the black toolbar

Editing user guides

1. From the dashboard, click “documents > categories”
2. Find the guide you want to edit, then click the link under “count”
3. The next screen will show all the documents that make up the specific guide, in the order they appear.
4. To change the order, click and drag from this screen
5. To change the content of any section, click on the title of the section. I recommend opening it in a new window or tab so you can go back and see the other documents more easily.

Creating new user guides

1. From the dashboard, click “documents”
2. If you want to copy existing sections into a new guide, you can go to that document and click “add new category” in the “categories” box in the right column
3. For new sections, create a new document and use the “add new category” link
4. Once all the sections are created, go to “document > categories” and click the “count” link -- then you can drag the sections into the correct order.
5. To place the new guide onto a page in the same style as existing guides, enter this code into a text box on the page: [pado_document template="default" category="XXX offset="49" top_offset="50" sidebar_width="30" counter="1"]. The category number is listed in the “document > categories” page under “shortcode”

Editing top menu (About / Systems and Services / Training and Workshops, etc)

1. From dashboard, go to “appearance > menus” (also available under “ARC-TS > menus” from black editing bar
2. Under “select a menu to edit,” choose “main menu” and hit select
3. In the “menu structure” screen, the names and sequence of the root-level menu can be edited. BUT…
4. To edit the “systems and services” menu, hover over it and click the “mega menu” button that appears.
5. Each column of the “systems and services” menu is a separate piece of html. click on the wrench icon on each to edit it.
6. To save changes, go back to the “menu structure” page and hit “save menu”
7. While I recommend against adding any menu items, to add a page, select the one you want under the “pages” tab on the left side. Too add any URL, use the “custom links” tab. It is automatically added at the bottom -- you can then drag it to the desired location

For example:

Editing “sidebar” menus (for example: https://arc.umich.edu/software/r/)

1. drop-down to find the right menu. It should be obvious from the names. The menus for pages like the R software page are called “submenus”.
2. other items from the left-side tabs, or deleting, etc.
3. governed on the “appearance > widgets” page
4. Under “page sidebar” on the right, there are several “navigation menus” -- to find the right one, you have to open it and see what is selected under “select menu.”
5. To actually get it to show up on a page you have to input the URL in the “target by URL” box here AND…
6. On the actual page, insert a “wigitized sidebar,” and choose “page sidebar” -- the page and the URL in the box described in step 5 have to be the same

Giving someone edit access

1. our wordpress instance, use “add existing user” and enter their U-M uniqname. If not, use “add new users”
2. arc.umich.edu/wp-admin

Changing the main image on the front page

1. From the front page, hover over “slider revolution” on the black edit bar, and click on “Homepage” 
2. Click on the blue “change image” button under “main background > source” to change the image
3. The box with the text “The Power of Research Computing” and the button “see more” can be edited in the area below that below that

NOTE: When editing the front page itself, you’ll see the “Revolution Slider: Homepage” item at the top. That obviously points to the slider. I like this approach, instead of just sticking an image on the main page for two reasons: 1) it allows text/buttons to be placed over the image 2) on the other ARC sites, it allows a rotation of images.  Slider Revolution help documentation: https://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/slider-revolution-documentation/

Creating and styling a new page

1. Navigate to a page you want to use as a starting point, click “copy to a new draft” and go crazy OR
2. Click “new > page” and go crazy

Editing the “Systems and Services” page https://arc.umich.edu/systems-services/)

1. Each service page (great lakes, hadoop, etc.) can only be seen on the systems and services listing IF “systems and services” is checked in the “categories” box on the page itself, and at least one “service category” is selected.
2. The blurb that shows on the systems and service page is taken from the “excerpt for pages” box in the editing area of each page, and the image is taken from the “featured image”
3. The services are sorted by date first published, with oldest at the top. That is set by the “toolset” plugin, which is accessed at the very bottom of the left column in the dashboard. go to “toolset > views” and select “Systems and Services” to see that.

Countdown timers for maintenance windows (NOTE: There is probably an easier way. But this is what we’ve got set up now)

1. Create an event for the maintenance (i.e., https://arc.umich.edu/event/winter-2019-hpc-maintenance/ with the date(s) corresponding to the maintenance window.
2. Go to “appearance” > widgets” 
3. Under “page sidebar” on the right side, there is (at least) one called “Events Countdown.” Open one of them, and under “Event” choose the event that you just created for the maintenance window. (all other settings should be fine as is)
4. Depending on where you want to display the clock, select “front page” under “Global Sections” or manually enter URLs under “Target by URL”
5. “Widget Context” should always be “Show Widget on Selected.”
6. Go to the editing area of the page(s) you want the countdown clock to appear, and add a “Wigitized Sidebar,” and choose “Page Sidebar” 
7. Add a title above it using a text box, if none was added on the widgets editing area.
8. Obviously, delete after maintenance.

Website Support

1. Hosted by https://uofmhosting.net/
2. Before doing anything extreme connect with Eric Shaw of UMOR Communications about the other sites
3. They do take backups of the sites and database

Dev site

1. Dev site when setup is https://wp2arcdev.sites.uofmhosting.net
2. Dev site doesn't work with weblogin and requires the reset of your local password and role.
3. Dev site is for testing, NOT something that changes can be pushed to prod

SSH Access

1. ssh wp2arc.sites.uofmhosting.net  Uses regular password (brockp has ssh currently)
2. path /data/wp2arc/  and /data/wp2arcdev

Shared with Eric Shawn and UMOR Communications in Google Drive:  https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1776JVgNSXlnnwq7EYC7Np07t7NRCzFTU

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