Freshman Studies ePortfolio Tutorials

Welcome to your Freshman Studies ePortfolios! The following video tutorials will help you get started.  You can also download this PDF cheat sheet for reference. Get to know how to navigate the WordPress dashboard on your ePortfolio site: See how to complete your...

Decommissioning Older ePortfolios

Later this month, we’ll begin decommissioning some of the older ePortfolios. This will mainly involve ones created for the class that graduated in May, but we’ll also be archiving all of the ones that are more than a year old. Let us know if you have any...

New Themes for 2016

With the upgrade to WordPress 4.4, it’s time to phase out some older themes and introduce a few new ones. The current best practice is for themes to be “responsive.” That means they respond to whatever kind of device you’re using, and they look...

ePortfolio Privacy Settings

PAs/INSTRUCTORS: If you would like to share your blog with your students, these are the steps to make your blog public. Everyone will be able to see your blog if you give them the URL. 1. Hover over the “Users” tab on your dashboard 2. Click...

Changing the Author of a Page

Some students were wondering why they can only change the author of a page to their shortname and not their full name.  If the drop down box for changing the author doesn’t include an option with your full name, it is because you have not told Worpress what your...

Black/White Text in Mobius Theme

If you’ve got text that you can’t see — either on the page or in the Visual Edit window — here’s how to fix it. Go to the Settings::Style Press menu, and remove the line: body { color: #000000 } Then click “Save Changes.”...

Easel Theme

FYI: If you are using the Easel theme, you’ll see that if the left or right sidebars do not have any widgets in them, a default message will be displayed.  The only way to remove the message is to add at least one widget to each sidebar.