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Creating a Privacy Policy for Your Website

Having a privacy section in the footer of your OpenScholar site is good practice to explicitly identify the name and use of any analytics or tracking capability used on your website in the privacy policy. NOTE: The privacy policy link is only available when using one of the Standard themes. How to...

Overview of the Text Editor (WYSIWYG)

Your site comes with a rich-text editor which functions as any standard word processor might. The term " WYSIWYG" stands for " What you see is what you get" meaning that changes you make in the text editor area will appear as they would on the page itself. There are options for bold, italic...

Sharing to X (formerly Twitter)

Sharing an Openscholar Page on X (formerly Twitter) The image displayed in an OpenScholar url tweeted out is the image set in SEO setting page Here are the specs given by Twitter about the requirements for the site logo image: - Image width/height: Minimum 600 X 335 pixels, although larger images...

Preparing Images for the Web

OpenScholar has built-in features to help you scale images, but it is still best to start by uploading images that follow web standards. Below are some resources to help with choosing the correct format, compressing, scaling, and cropping images. Choose the Correct Image Format There are three image...

Wrapping Text Around an Image

Follow the steps below to wrap text around an image within your page content. 1. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the text and click the Add Media icon 2. Upload an image from your computer, embed an image from the web, or select a previously uploaded image. 3. Edit your image information...

Getting an OpenScholar Account

To create an OpenScholar account, you must either: create an OpenScholar website yourself OR have the Site Owner or an Administrator of an Openscholar website add you as a "member" to an existing OpenScholar site. Learn about Adding Members. In both cases, your OpenScholar account will be created...

Deleting a Widget From Your Site

If you know that you will not be using certain widgets, it is best to remove them from your site to avoid an excess of unused widgets from the Layout's Widget Panel. To Delete a Widget There are two ways to delete a widget from a site. 1. Delete a widget from page - Click on the contextual link of...

Subsites

What is a subsite? A subsite acts as related site to the main site.

Member Roles

The Members & Roles section of the Control Panel allows you to invite others to become members of your site so that they may help you maintain the site. Default Member Roles As the Site Owner of the website, you have full access to the control panel, have the ability to delete the site, and have the...

Site Ownership

Understanding Site Ownership The person who created the site is considered the Owner of the site and has full administrative access to the site. Responsibilities of Site Ownership Only the Site Owner is able to request the deletion of their site. For more information, please visit the Deleting a...