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Working with Redirects in cPanel

Adding a Redirect To add a redirect for a URL in Knight Domains, first navigate...

How to Add a User in WordPress

WordPress has the ability to have multiple users collaborate on a single website. To do...

How to Embed an Instagram Post

If you are wanting to embed a single Instagram post on your WordPress site, first...

How to Log Into WordPress

There are two ways to log into WordPress. Direct URL The first way is to...

Using the Elementor Plugin

Elementor is a very common WordPress block based plugin that makes creating a unique website...

Exporting a Site Using HTTrack

If you have built a site on a platform outside of Knight Domains, you may...

Copyright Free Resources For Media

If you are including photos, videos, or other sorts of media on your website, you...

Resetting the Password to an Application

Due to forgetfulness or security concerns, you may need to change the password of an...

Visitor/Resident Map

As a way to analyze, think, and talk about your digital identity it’s a good...

Creating a Website Blueprint

Rather than diving into WordPress to start designing the look of your site, it can...

Create a Site Map

How would you like information laid out on your site? When someone visits your site...

Defining Your Website’s Purpose

Define your site’s purpose. This can be helpful when curating content for your website. Below...

CSS Basics

Have you ever fallen in love with a theme but wished you could change just...

Getting Started Viewing and Finding CSS Classes with Web Inspector

Web Inspector is a powerful tool that lets you view all resources and activity on...

How to Customize CSS for a Single WordPress Page or Post

Utilizing the Additional CSS tab in the WordPress theme customizer can be a very powerful tool, but...

Know Your Audience

This post is focused on grappling with how to present one’s self to an audience...

What is Domain of One’s Own?

And what is Domain of One’s Own at St. Norbert College? Well, let’s start with...

Framing Up Digital Competence

What does it mean to know something and be able to demonstrate it? In education...

What’s in a Domain Name

This post is the first in a series on Getting Started with Knight Domains at...

Choosing Your Domain Name

Choosing your domain name is the first step in getting started with staking your claim...

Signing Up

Review the Guidelines Before you get started, we recommend that you review our information about Choosing...

Understanding Accounts & Passwords

One aspect of Knight Domains that users may find a bit complicated at first is...

Privacy

What you add to your webspace rests entirely with you. You can choose not to...

What Can You Do with Your Account?

Your ability to do things on Knight Domains is dictated to a large degree by...

Registering a Domain

This web hosting space currently utilizes both subdomains of your school’s project URL and top-level domains (a .com, .net...

What Exactly is a Web Application?

In the most general terms, a Web application is a piece of software that runs...

Static and Dynamic Websites

Static Websites In the early days of the Web, almost all Web sites were what is...

LAMP Environments

When you sign up for an account on Knight Domains, you get a personal space...

Social Media

As you begin to build out your digital presence you’ll probably start to think about...

Technical Requirements/Limitations of Knight.Domains?

St. Norbert College uses a Web server known as a LAMP server. “LAMP” is an...

Installing Applications with Installatron

Installatron is a script installer that allows you to quickly and easily install Web applications...

Understanding Your Knight.Domains Dashboard

The Knight Domains Dashboard, known technically as the cPanel, is your landing page for Knight...

Applications Available in Installatron

Installatron, the script installer that is part of the knight.domains dashboard, allows you to easily...

Accessing Your Files through the File Manager

Your Knight Domains Dashboard / cPanel includes a File Manager that allows you to interact...

File Structures and the File Manager

Web hosting is, at its basic core, files and folders on a computer that is...

Setting Up FTP

There may be times when you need to upload files to your website in the...

Setting Up Subdomains

A subdomain is one way of organizing and separating content on your site. To create...

Subdomains vs. Subdirectories

When you’re first getting started with a new space on a new Web host, you...

Managing Backups

Any application that you install in Knight Domains using the Dashboard/Installatron is set to automatically...

Finding Your Application’s Username/Password

When installing an application (WordPress, Omeka, etc.) through Installatron, you are able to set an...

Reducing Domain Storage

Each student at St. Norbert is given one gigabyte of space on their domain for...

Installing WordPress

Installing WordPress is fairly simple. Either follow the steps in this article, watch the video...

Setting Title and Tagline in WordPress

Now that you have your WordPress installed and running, it’s time to look at some...

WordPress Themes

When it comes to WordPress, customizing the look of your site is simple and straightforward...

Publishing Content in WordPress

The primary activity that you’re likely to be doing on your WordPress site is publishing...

WordPress Posts vs Pages

The one way you can put information on your website and separate it is by...

WordPress Reading Settings

WordPress is a very flexible platform for creating full-blown websites, not just blogging sites. This...

Permalinks in WordPress

Part of the popularity of WordPress is how easily it makes a website functional and...

Custom Menus in WordPress

The way to control the content that appears at the top of your website or...

WordPress Widgets

Widgets are a more advanced feature of WordPress that allow you even more control over...

WordPress Plugins

WordPress has a lot of functionality built-in, but occasionally you might find a specific need...

Site Privacy in WordPress

WordPress is a platform intended to allow you to share your thoughts and ideas freely...

Discussion Settings in WordPress

What makes WordPress a powerful platform is that not only can you create a dynamic...

Managing Spam in WordPress: Akismet

SPAM! Everyone hates it in their email. If you’re new to WordPress and blogging platforms...

How to Embed a Video in WordPress

While the WordPress media library supports video uploads, videos can take up a lot of...

Displaying a PDF on Your WordPress Site

Have you ever had the need to display a PDF on your website? There are...

How to Embed Your Social Media Feed in WordPress

Featuring the feed of your social media can add to your website. Social media icons...

Installing Omeka

To get started you’ll need to login to your control panel (https://knight.domains/dashboard) using your SNC...

Installing Omeka Plugins

As you begin to use your Omeka install on Knight Domains you may wish to...

Installing Omeka Themes

Just as you would install plugins, installing themes to Omeka is very similar. Omeka has a...

Neatline Plugin for Omeka

Building an interactive map using Omeka’s Neatline plugin Neatline is a plugin for Omeka that allows...

Working with Omeka Classic

Here are a few tips and tricks that can help make sure you get the...

Installing Scalar

To get started you’ll need to login to your control panel (https://knight.domains/dashboard) using your State...

Creating a Book

To get started in Scalar, you will need to create a book. Go to your...

Installing Grav

Log into your cPanel. Navigate to Files > All Applications: Type Grav in the top...

Working with Grav

You can find tutorials for working with Grav here...

Installing Mediawiki

To get started you’ll need to login to your control panel (https://knight.domains/dashboard) using your SNC...

Managing Permissions

The default Mediawiki installed has been customized to make it a bit harder for spammers...

When You Leave

There are a few reasons that could lead you to consider exporting your website content...

Migrate to Reclaim Hosting

Step One: Signing up for an Account Step Two: Let Reclaim Hosting Know Send a...

Migrating Your Domain Elsewhere

If you would like to continue using your domain after graduation but would like to...

Unlock your domain

This article only if you own your own top-level domain. If you have been using...

WordPress Export/Import

If you are using your WordPress, you can also get an export of your posts, pages...

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