How do I add a person to the Team page in my template? The Team page is built using the Person app. To add a person to the page, follow these steps: Go to the Control Panel. Click Site Content>Add Person. Fill in the fields and click Save. The person will be added to the page. I don't see Team in my...

This page provides examples of the widgets you can use to build your web pages. To build a visually-appealing page, it helps to map out the content you'd like to include and its placement. Once you've done that, you'll have a better idea which widgets to include. For example, do you want to align an...

Have you ever uploaded someone’s profile picture only to find that the top of their head looks cut off? One person’s photo may extend from the waist to the top of their head, where others may be taken from the shoulders up. Others may have been taken close up versus far away. These impact how the...

If you are interested in creating your own OpenScholar website, you are unsure whether your institution is an OpenScholar customer, or you do not know the process for requesting a site, please reach out to support@theopenscholar.com. If you are a customer and you need to provision a site for someone...

An Organization Administrator can do the following: Provision new sites for others to create. Edit or change the settings on any existing site. View the Site Report. This report lists all sites on your organization's OpenScholar install, along with the site's title, site owner, the type of site...

The Button Collection Widget displays a series of links styled as buttons with icons. You can use it to build visually appealing lists of links that link to other pages in your site or to external sites. 1. To add a new widget to your site you must get to the layout area. First, click on the Layout...

The Most Viewed Content widget is only available on Institutional sites. It provides aggregated statistics about all OpenScholar sites owned by an Institution. The Most Viewed Content widget provides a list of the most popular pages and sites across an institution's collection of OpenScholar sites...

On an OpenScholar Research Dashboard, information about your scientists, scholars, and facilities can be found through one search page. Data from every OpenScholar site at your organization flows up to the dashboard, which updates dynamically whenever new content is added to each site. More about...

The Activity Snapshot widget is only available on Institutional sites. It provides aggregated statistics about all OpenScholar sites owned by an Institution. The Activity Snapshot widget provides an overview of activity across an institution's collection of OpenScholar sites. It can provide three...

Themes control the appearance of your site: the overall look and feel, including colors, fonts, and spacing. OpenScholar periodically creates new themes to reflect the latest design trends and evolving web standards. Keeping a large set of themes compatible with new platform features, accessibility...