Logging In
1. Go to http://blogs.sccs.swarthmore.edu/ and click the login link at the top of the page
2. Follow the link on the Log In page to arrive at the main log-in form:
3. Enter in your personal username and password.
4. You’ll be redirected to the admin site. In the top left corner, you’ll see something that looks like this:
Hover your mouse over this, and there will be a drop down menu. Select the site you want to manage.
Note: In some cases, you may have to enter your username and password again.
If you don’t see your site here, you haven’t yet been given permission to edit it–let us know.
If you have gotten this far–great! You can easily edit your site.
Some of your options:
Write Post Add a new article to the front of your page. Posts are arranged in reverse chronological order
Write Page Pages are static files which never change, and aren’t time dependent. What you are reading now is an example of a page
Manage Pages/Posts Edit posts and pages you’ve already published
Manage Categories Organize your posts by creating categories (basically folders) with which to sort your content
Presentation Select one of the 108 themes we’ve currently uploaded. Many themes give you special options to further customize your site
Plugins We’ve added a few plugins to help make your site more useful. FireStats, which gives you information on the number of people who visit your site, is activated by default. LJ Cross-Poster helps you integrate your site with a LiveJournal. We’re working on finding more plugins, but if you have anything in mind, let us know! Most WordPress plugins will work with the site.
Users Are you an admin for your site? Then you can add more people to help you edit it–just enter the email address with which they subscribed, and set them as a contributor or higher. The higher their rank, the more they will be able to change. Contributors can just create drafts, while administrators can do anything