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Move WordPress Sites to HTTPS
Before you start this process, you need to make sure that system admin has already gotten a SSL certificate for the website and installed it on the server. Step one: Add HTTPS to WordPress Admin To change WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS, the install URL must changed from http://whatevername.byu.edu to https://whatevername.byu.edu.…
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Couldn’t Display Embedded Google Calendar
odh.byu.edu site couldn’t display embedded Google calendar especially applying to customized department theme. Problem: When go to calendar, the selected particular calendar won’t stay after you select it. For example, when you select “Office of Digital Humanities” calendar, it just won’t stay after your selection. Calendar option always goes to…
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Photos and Copyright
We should always be careful about the photos we use so that we don’t get in trouble for copyright issues. Since some of the sites we work on will make money through a subscription, selling something, a membership, etc-it’s to be careful about where we get pictures from. Please let…
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SSL/HTTPS
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private. This is important for websites that contain personal information including information uploaded by users. Payment and transaction…
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Creating a Site on the Farm
Creating a New Site “The farm” is a reference to the humwp.byu.edu site. On this site, we can create mockup sites before they go live. The process generally goes like this: We are contacted about creating a new site, whether it’s migrating an outdated site or starting a new site…
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Users and Virtual IDs
Users: the general term for anyone who has any sort of access to the site. You can see a list of users Virtual ID: a virtual ID is created for each department and program. This will be something generic, usually involving part of their department’s name in some way. This…