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How to Embed an Instagram Post

If you are wanting to embed a single Instagram post on your WordPress site, first make sure the account that has posted the picture is public. If it isn’t, the embed will not work properly...

Using the Elementor Plugin

Elementor is a very common WordPress block based plugin that makes creating a unique website extremely simple. Because of all the options Elementor provides, there is little chance that any other will...

Copyright Free Resources For Media

If you are including photos, videos, or other sorts of media on your website, you need to ensure you have the rights to use it. What’s protected by copyright? All works that are protected under...

Visitor/Resident Map

As a way to analyze, think, and talk about your digital identity it’s a good practice to start by making a Visitor and Resident (V&R) map and share it. It’s a way to visualize the way you interact...

Creating a Website Blueprint

Rather than diving into WordPress to start designing the look of your site, it can be good to take a step back from the technology and design by hand. Grab a pencil and paper and sketch of the overall...

Create a Site Map

How would you like information laid out on your site? When someone visits your site, how do you intend to the end user to navigate through your site? A good way to picture this is thinking about what...

Defining Your Website’s Purpose

Define your site’s purpose. This can be helpful when curating content for your website. Below are some questions that can help you narrow down your website’s purpose. Are you wanting a static or...

CSS Basics

Have you ever fallen in love with a theme but wished you could change just one aspect of it? Some themes do offer the ability to change fonts or colors, but what if they don’t? The answer lies within...

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 a web page. This post will guide you through some of the tool’s most useful features and how you can use them to aid...

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 have you ever wondered if it’s possible to customize CSS for a single page or post? The...

Know Your Audience

This post is focused on grappling with how to present one’s self to an audience when when working in the public. Written in a very broad and general way, this post is directed at those using Knight...

Framing Up Digital Competence

What does it mean to know something and be able to demonstrate it? In education we are always wanting to set outcomes or goals and measure how well students meet them. Another approach is a competency...

What’s in a Domain Name

This post is the first in a series on Getting Started with Knight Domains at St. Norbert College. This post provides general information on domain names but has been updated on Sept. 9th 2018 to...

Social Media

As you begin to build out your digital presence you’ll probably start to think about social media in some form. In fact it’s likely that you already have at least one, if not more, social...

How to Embed a Video in WordPress

While the WordPress media library supports video uploads, videos can take up a lot of your domain space. A way around this is to upload your video to a separate platform and then embed it on your...

Displaying a PDF on Your WordPress Site

Have you ever had the need to display a PDF on your website? There are two ways you can go about doing this. If you simply want to embed a PDF, you can use the built in file block in WordPress’s...

How to Embed Your Social Media Feed in WordPress

Featuring the feed of your social media can add to your website. Social media icons can be nice, but embedding your feed can be engaging to your audience. Twitter || Instagram || Facebook Twitter...

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