Instructions for Posting

You will be submitting your assignments as posts, such as this one, on your site. You are the administrator on your site, which means you have full control and ownership over the content of your site. As such, you are responsible for ensuring all the content on your site conforms to NYU’s Website Accessibility Policy (see NYU’s Accessibility How-to Guides). If you are not familiar with WordPress, please refer to the following instructions for submitting your assignments.

Instructions for posting to your site:

1. Log in to your site by using your NYU credentials. *Note: your site is set to private, viewable only to you and the other administrators of your site. You will publicly launch your site at a later date.
2. Once you are logged in, you will see a black navigation bar at the top of the site with your name in the upper right-hand corner. Hover over “+ New” on the left of that bar and click on Post. This will take you to the “Add New Post” interface on your “Dashboard,” the backend of your site.
3. Add your post by giving it a title and writing your content in the text box.
4. Categorize your blog post: make sure to select the week from the category menu.
5. Add tags to your blog post to make it searchable. These tags will appear in the tag cloud in the sidebar of your site.
6. Set a Featured Image (optional; see below).
7. Check your post for accessibility.
8. Click Publish–if you do not do this final step, your blog post will not be saved. You may preview your changes, save your post as a draft for future revision, or publish it as Public, Private, or password-protected.
9. Make sure you view your post to ensure it has posted correctly.

Features you may include on your post:

• To add an image to your post, click Insert > Add Media, and you will be directed to the Media Library. You may choose one of the existing media or add a new file by uploading it to the Library. Once selected, you can add alt text, choose the size of the image to be displayed, as well as its position on the screen and alignment with the text. 
• To create and upload a gallery of images:
  • Click Add Media > Create Gallery
  • Select and/or upload images to your gallery. Add alt text to all images.
  • Once you’ve added all the images you want to include, click “Create a new gallery”
  • Customizing the Gallery:
    • • You can edit the gallery by changing the order of images.
      • You can add caption to individual images in the text field present below every image. This field accepts plain text and HTML.
      • You can also change the type and size of display from the drop-down menu as shown in the figure. There are also different gallery display options available.

     

    • Click “Insert Gallery.” You will return to your text editor, and all the images will appear.
• You may also add a “Featured Image” from the righthand sidebar menu by the text editor. This image will appear on the top of your post as well as in snippet views of your post.
• To embed a video, simply paste the URL of the video on your content page, making sure the URL stands in its own line, and that it is not hyperlinked. See more information in the article Web Publishing: Embedding a video from YouTube or Vimeo. You may also click Insert > Insert/edit video to embed video and customize its features.
  • Hit the Preview button to ensure the embedded video is working properly.
  • *Note: captions are required for all videos. See NYU’s accessibility how-to guide for video and audio.
• To upload a video that is not available online, simply click Insert > Add Media and upload the source file into the Media Library (not recommended).

Changing Your Username

In order to facilitate communication, please make sure your username displays publicly as your first and last names, instead of your NetID. In order to do that, click on your name on the right corner of the black navigation bar on top of this page. Select “edit my profile” and choose one of the options from the dropdown menu under “display name publicly as.” Though it’s preferable that you choose the option with first and last names, you may select a nickname that is unique and recognizable by your instructor (such as your preferred name). You also have the option to add an image to your profile (not required).

For More Help

Real-time, voice-guided WordPress training is available straight from your site dashboard. In addition, online help is available via the Web Publishing Getting Started guide and the ServiceLink knowledge base. Through ServiceLink, you can find step-by-step instructions as well as tutorials.

If you have additional questions, contact the IT Service Desk, open 24x7x365, for assistance.

You may also contact the Digital Gallatin team for further assistance at gallatin.edtech@nyu.edu.