Wordpress, which is used by the university as its blogging platform for its faculty, staff and students, is also a powerful website builder tool. Don’t be turned off by its association with blogs; Wordpress is a content management system just like Drupal. It can function exactly like a website. We've written a comparison between Drupal and Wordpress for lab websites.
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Either direct the faculty member to create a blog at blogs.oregonstate.edu, or create the blog for the faculty member.
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Choose a name that is your lab (/brown) or your research specialty (/sagegrouse)
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Using Pages instead of Posts, create pages for your lab site. Some common pages include About, Research, Publications, Lab Members.
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Make sure to assign your site the OSU Responsive Theme
Appearance > Themes > OSU Responsive
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Make sure to assign your site a Parent Unit/Child Unit Titles (for instance, College of Agricultural Sciences and Department of Horticulture)
Appearance > Customize > Parent/Child Unit Titles
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When your site is in good shape and ready to be shared with the public, contact the Cas Web Team and ask for a redirect. Your site will then be redirected to agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/xxx, giving you a more professional, non-blog URL.
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Cas Web Team member then contacts OSU Digital Experience and asks for the URL to be redirected.
Contact us to get started: caswebrequest@oregonstate.edu