Wordpress: Managing University-Supported WordPress

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Site Roles and Permissions 

The following roles and permissions are available for University-Supported WordPress. All site permissions must be assigned by a University-Supported WordPress administrator. Submit a request online to add/remove users to your site. 

  1. UT Site Admin: This is the site administrator role for university-supported WordPress sites. This special role allows the UT Site Admin to access Site Activated plug-in settings such as Gravity Forms.  
    Limitations for UT Site Admins: 

  • Do not have access to any Network Activated Administration plug-in settings such as Authorizer.  

  • Cannot customize CSS through the Customizer.  

  1. Editor: Has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags, and can upload media. 

  1. Author: Can write, upload media, edit, and publish their own posts. 

  1. Contributor: Has no publishing or uploading capability but can write and edit their own posts until they are published. 

  1. Subscriber: People who subscribe to your site’s updates. 

Sign in to Manage Your Site 

Access the admin page at {URL}/wp-admin and sign in with your NetID and password. 

Site Configuration

Sites hosted in the University-Supported WordPress environment will have the following configurations:

  • Quota: 1 GB for Media Uploads
  • Max Upload File Size: 2 MB

Use of Plugins 

The University-Supported WordPress environment provides access to network-activated plugins, which are included with your site, and site-activated plugins, which can be added to your site. Visit the OIT Knowledge Base for a list of optional site-activated plugins.  

OIT administrators maintain the availability of plugins in this environment. Plugins that are no longer supported or will not work with the current version will be removed. 

Requesting a WordPress Plugin 

UT Site Admins may submit a request online to have a site-activated plugin added to their site.  

If the current plugins do not meet your needs, University-Supported WordPress administrators will consider installing additional plugins. For a list of plugins currently installed on the University-Supported WordPress environment, visit the OIT Knowledge Base for a list of all site plugins. 

Contact OIT online to request additional plugins. Please include the plugin name and URL when submitting your request. University-Supported WordPress administrators will evaluate the plugin request and notify you of the result. 

Here are a few things that are considered as part of the plugin evaluation: 

  • Is the plugin widely used, actively maintained, updated, and verified to work with the installed version of WordPress? 

  • Are there known issues with other installed plugins? 

  • Plugins that allow custom CSS or theme modification are not allowed in the University Supported WordPress environment 

Maintenance Schedule 

WP Engine automatically maintains the core application and active plugins. 

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