Getting Started
Planning Your Site
Learn how to plan out your site and consider everything you will need before you start entering content.
Support Docs
Whether you’re a brand-new WordPress user or a pro, we’ve got you covered with resources to help you build your site, make it accessible, and more.
Getting Started
Requesting a Site
Learn how to request a no-cost WordPress site if you are affiliated with CALS.
Getting Started
Setting up Your Site
Some website onboarding tips and tricks to help get you started managing and editing your WordPress site.
Analytics
WordPress
Getting Started
Adding Content to Your Site
WordPress provides an easy-to-use block editor to manage the content on your pages and posts without having to know how to code. Here, you'll find a couple of resources to learn the difference between pages and posts and how to use the block editor.
Content Editing
WordPress
Advanced Tutorials
Using Animation
Animating content on your site can engage visitors, communicate meaning and context, and enhance the user experience. Using animation appropriately has many benefits, but when misused, animation can actually have harmful effects. It's important that you consider all of these tips before adding animation to your pages.
Content Editing
WordPress
Getting Started
Digital Accessibility Resources for your Website
About the DOJ Rule and the University Digital Accessibility Initiative The Department of Justice (DOJ) passed a new digital accessibility rule for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requiring public universities’ digital content to be accessible. The UW-Madison Digital Accessibility Initiative (DAI) establishes a sustainable university infrastructure for content creators within each school, college and […]
Accessibility
Digital Accessibility
WordPress
Blocks
Carousel
The carousel block allows you to show a slideshow of content on your page or post. You can include images, text, and more in your carousel.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
Blocks
Accordion
The accordion block allows you to group content under a heading and hide the content until the user clicks on the heading to expand it.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
Blocks
Tabs
The tabs block allows you to group content under a heading and hide only the content until the user clicks on the heading to display it. Only one content section can be displayed at a time.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
WordPress
Blocks
Modal
The modal block allows you to place an overlay block on top of your page or post. You can trigger opening the modal on page load, after a specified number of seconds, or by clicking a button.
CALS Blocks
WordPress
Blocks
Card
The card block is an organized way to display an image and content (usually a header and small paragraph). It can optionally be used to link to pages as well.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
WordPress
Blocks
Posts
The posts block displays the latest posts from your blog or another WordPress blog.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
WordPress
Plugins
Broken Link Checker
One of the most common maintenance tasks for a site is checking for and fixing broken links. The more you link to content outside your site, the higher your chances the links will break over time. The Plugin The Broken Link Checker plugin can: To check if your site is running on your site, login […]
WordPress
Plugins
CALS People Directory
The CALS People Directory plugin allows for the flexible management of biographical/contact information. It also comes with a Directory display Gutenberg block that provides the ability to flexibly display the people data on any page of your website in either grid or list views. The block also provide options to add search and filter to […]
CALS Plugin
Directory
People
Advanced Tutorials
Improving Site SEO
Learn how to improve your search engine ranking using features built into the CALS WordPress platform.
Customizer
WordPress
Blocks
UW Today Events
The UW Today Events block allows you to embed events from today.wisc.edu on your page. You can filter by feed, tag, or specific event id, and easily control which fields are displayed.
CALS Blocks
Content Editing
Events
WordPress
CALSv4 Migration
CALSv4 Migration – Migrating Content
Ready to start migrating? This document will guide you through migrating over your pages, posts, and other content.
CALSv4 Migration
CALSv4 Migration – Getting Started
Our CALSv4 theme offers significant performance, accessibility, and usability improvements over our 2015 (v3) theme. Follow this guide for steps on completing your site migration.
Basic Tutorials
Logging In
Learn how to access and edit your WordPress site.
NetID
WordPress
Plugins
Protect Pages With NetID
The CALS NetID Protection plugin allows you to protect any page on your site behind UW NetID authentication. When enabled on a page, a user will be prompted to log in with their NetID to view the content.
CALS Plugin
NetID
Page Options
Getting Started
Creating Accessible Content
Learn how to make sure your pages and content are accessible for all users.
Accessibility
Content Editing
WordPress
Basic Tutorials
Theme Customization Options
Learn how to use the customizer to add different functionality and customization to your site.
Customizer
Site Options
WordPress
Advanced Tutorials
E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Options
This document discusses the options and process for setting up e-commerce/payment functionality to complement your CALS hosted website. We are not able to directly add functionality to accept payments (e-commerce, storefront, shopping carts, etc.) to your CALS WordPress website. However, site owners can work with UW Business Services and the DoIT Web and Mobile Solutions team (WaMS) to create a hosted payment page that you can link to from your CALS website.
E-commerce
Payment
Policy
Site Options
Blocks
Core WordPress Blocks
You will find many blocks available in the page editor including many custom blocks that we have created as part of our CALS v4 theme, or our custom plugins. WordPress provides a range of core blocks that are fundamental to content creation such as the paragraph, columns and heading blocks. This resource provides a full list of the core WordPress blocks provided by WordPress.
WordPress
Getting Started
CALS Web Hosting & Management Guidelines
The CALS Web Service Website Hosting and Management Standard establishes guidelines for creating and managing websites associated with CALS faculty, staff, departments, and administration.
Policy
Plugins
Plugin Guidelines
Overview CALS Web Services strives to provide a high-functioning WordPress environment and deliver a high-quality WordPress experience to all customers. The CALS WordPress Multisite environment offers many features and functionality via the CALS WordPress Theme and CALS-approved plugins. A customer may make a request for us to add a plugin to their website, however every […]
Policy
Basic Tutorials
Editing Your Site Menu
The CALS WordPress theme supports 2 different menus. We'll help you understand the difference and how to add items to each menu.
WordPress
Plugins
CALS Resource Directory
The CALS Resource Directory allows you to register post types and configure how they are displayed. Users can easily search and filter through your content to find what they are looking for.
CALS Plugin
Directory
Resources
Site Options
WordPress
Basic Tutorials
How to Add Jump Links to Your Page
Jump links, also referred to as anchor links, allow you to link to another spot on your page. They can be very useful if that page has a lot of content as they can help the user quickly navigate to the spot on the page they are looking for.
WordPress
Advanced Tutorials
Embed a Google Calendar
Learn how to embed a Google Calendar onto a page on your site.
WordPress
Basic Tutorials
Google Analytics
This document will walk you through the process for adding a Google Analytics 4 (GA4) measurement ID to a CALS hosted WordPress website.
Analytics
WordPress
Plugins
Redirection Plugin
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to create and manage redirects. When activated, the plugin allows you to create simple redirects on your site for when your page URLs change and you want to automatically redirect site visitors to another page. This plugin is available upon request on the CALS Web hosting platform.
WordPress
Basic Tutorials
Adding/Removing Users
Learn how to to add editors and administrators to your site to help you manage content.
NetID
WordPress