 This session is about cleaning up your WordPress portal. So that's your home page. It was gonna say, state you, but state you is our home page. That's the example we're gonna use today. Yours is probably not called that, I hope. Otherwise that's an elaborate scam. Oh yeah, very much so. But just going through the WordPress homepage that is where all of your users log in to access their accounts where signup happens. I don't really know how many more ways to say this is the center of everything. This is where magic happens. I think one of the reasons we, to peel back the curtain why we even decided it would be important to talk about this is it is in all likelihood one of the most trafficked sites on your domain of one's own. And maybe, there are obviously exceptions to that. We definitely see domain of one's own servers that have like a particular, maybe there's like an OER that's really popular, something like that. But it is important to know that this is the site that your users using domain of one's own are logging into, right? So if it's slow, your domain of one's own is gonna feel slow for the folks that are trying to use their C panel or get stuff done. So it's really important that the site is working well, is secure, and is updated and things like that. So we'll dig into some things that you can look at and what to do. But before we maybe get there, it'd probably be good to talk about what we do at Reclaim for this site. Because we do have particular eyes on this site in a way that we may not for like a random students WordPress site, right? So this being the front end of your domain of one's own, we will be managing things like PHP versions for you. You won't have to worry about that. We'll make sure that's updated and it's set appropriately. We have that infinite WordPress, right? Yep, and we are using a service called infinite WordPress to allow us to make sure that basically every domain of one's own WordPress front end is updated and that includes the version of WordPress itself, any plugins that are installed that are available via the WordPress plugin repository, and any themes that are installed, although we are using our own custom theme. So that actually doesn't have much to do with this particular thing. But yeah, we manage those updates. So what that leaves for you is sort of what plugins are installed other than the ones that are required and we'll talk about what those are. And you can make design changes as long as you stay within the theme. If you wanna change to a different theme, you gotta let us know because we have to port our customizations over to that theme. So that's a bit of a process and personally, unless you have very specific needs, I wouldn't really recommend going that route of customizing your domain of one's own. We'll talk about some strategies of what you can do to customize this. And really that gives you creative control but also is pretty easy to do in terms of you don't need to have like a dev environment and things like that. I'll pull up, this is our state you portal, lovely state university, you know. I'm already logged in here, of course, but if I go to the back end here, if I click on admin, this is what state you look like on the back end. And I'm gonna go right to talk about plugins. So we'll talk through what plugins are here and what they do and what ones you definitely don't wanna disable. That way if you have other plugins that you're looking at and you're like, do we need these? That can kind of help inform that for you. So there's a couple here that I have deactivated that we'll actually talk about later. But right away going down the list here, easy bootstrap shortcode. This is gonna be on pretty much every domain in one's own. This is something that is used by our customizations or we use as part of our customizations. So you're not gonna wanna deactivate this. This can actually- This makes things run. Yeah, this can break certain elements of the theme. Gravity forms. So if you are using the request form for domain in one's own, meaning that people have to fill a form out and then you go in and set them as an author, don't disable that. You may also have ninja forms. We used to use ninja forms. Whatever form plugin works for you is fine, honestly. But if you want to, we are tending to move forward with gravity forms. And if you wanna be moved over from ninja forms to gravity forms, we can definitely get that installed for you and talk with you about next steps there. So just put in a ticket and let us know. Limit login attempts. This isn't like vital, but we highly recommend this as a security measure. This will basically prevent folks from trying to guess wordpress passwords and logging. BruteForce is the word I was looking for. Thank you. So this is gonna be activated by default. We would recommend you leave that activated. I believe that's part of the default WordPress package for every installation as well. Yes, yeah, that is correct. LoginWP, formerly Peters Login Redirect. It got such a worse name, but Peters Login Redirect was so better. So much better of a name in my opinion. I feel like, I was gonna say it feels less informative, but it's not. It's kind of laterally uninformative. I mean, I don't really know Peters' last name. That's true. But I feel like I could, you know, Peter, what are you doing? Anyway, I've never had this plugin break, but. Now it's just LoginWP team. I don't know who that is. So this is part of what makes Domain of One's own work. You want to leave this enabled. This makes sure that when folks log into the WordPress site, that they are redirected to that dashboard page where the C panel is shown or the request form. So that is part of what makes this whole setup work. So you're gonna wanna make sure that's enabled. Remove dashboard access is possibly even more important. This prevents anyone with the author or really any role other than a subscriber to be able to get into this dashboard. The only user that can get back here is admin users, which is what you want. This is good because this is a WordPress site and the way Domain of One's own works is we use the built-in role to determine who is allowed to access C panels or not. And author does that. Author also by default in WordPress can author posts. You don't really want them writing blog posts on this site. So this prevents that from happening. So that's important to leave there. User switching, it's great. You probably have encountered this one. You do have to, the user switching plugin lets us go to the user's page and pick any person from the list and login as them, which is great. WordPress social login, that for state U is what we use for logins. You are more likely to have a SSO plugin of some kind. We do have some folks that have no SSO, but most schools do. That's kind of the primary reason you have Domain of One's own, honestly. And so you either probably have a plugin that does LDAP or probably more commonly we have SAML, Shibboleth, some OAuth plugins. Octa stuff is coming up. Yeah, Octa is sometimes done via SAML, kind of depends on. So there's going to be some authentication plugin like that. So that will be one, you won't want to disable that, otherwise you and no one else will be able to log in to the WordPress site anymore and you'll have to have us turn it back on, so. Which we can do, but yeah. And then finally, you may have a caching plugin installed. This is not on every Domain of One's own, but we've found that some higher traffic sites do benefit from it. So there are probably some of you that have WP Supercache is the one we typically use. There are other caching plugins that work fine, but this is not actually essential to the site working, but if you have this enabled, I wouldn't disable it. It's going to make your site faster, so. It's not going to hurt. Probably going to hurt. Based on, we actually have a article that I can throw in Discord, but you know, we can, well, let's pull it up too, but we have a using a caching plugin with WordPress. Got the list. And right here, we mentioned how to enable a caching plugin and how to use WP Supercache in particular. If you're doing this on a different site, say not your Domain of One's own site, this is pretty much always a benefit. I mean, there's really, especially WP Supercache is, I've not very had very many issues with it, like breaking things. It's pretty conservative. So that's, it's a good option. So it will be enabled on some of your sites, but not all. But yeah, these are the core things that you're going to have. We have some more on, we'll talk about this plugin in a session at the end of day two. So, you know, I'm not going to do it right now. That's, we'll showcase that. These are info. Who made that one? I made this one, but I didn't do any of the hard work. Tom Woodward did all the hard work and I made it into a plugin and put my name on it. Oh, okay. I see what it is. I link right to his blog post on it. But yeah, I like to have this one enabled in our state U for our sessions because then we don't accidentally dox anybody. So it's kind of cool. So we'll leave that enabled. But yeah, so that's the kind of core plugin set. So if you are wanting to go through and clean up stuff, you know, take a look at what you have here. Not that if you have something enabled here, sorry, if you have something enabled that's not here, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that it's not necessarily core to making domain of one's own work. So it may be related to the design of your site or something else. Like we said with WP SuperCache, you might not even have, you're seeing that right now, but maybe that's not in your site and that's because it's not part of the engine that makes things go. It's sort of a nice little... Yeah, we don't actually have it enabled by default because we find that most people don't need it, but we do have it in some places. Anyway, so that's kind of the core plugins that make domain of one's own work. Let's take a stop on the themes page real quick here. There's not a lot to say other than there will be, for most of you, the unfold theme and a child theme of the unfold theme with the name of your school. This is essential. If you have this, do not switch themes because a lot of the custom code that makes domain of one's own work with bringing the C panel in and bringing WHMCS for account signups and that kind of stuff, that is happening because of this child theme. So you're not gonna wanna switch that. There are usually we have at least one or two other themes in there as a backup. If something was to go wrong, we can switch to it. It's just like a good idea to have another, like one of the 2020 whatever themes, but really should never need them. So you don't wanna leave that how that is. Then going further, the last real big thing would be pages. So there are some pages that come by default here that we set up to make your domain of one's own work. There is of course other pages potentially too. So on this one, we've got dashboard, home page, privacy policy, request form, user information. You may have these, you may have more than these, but you certainly have something that's set as your home page. So it's important to note that the home page is just a home page. There's actually not anything super fancy going on here. Unfold has some built-in stuff to do, like the layer slider and these little widgets and that's what we're using here. But as part of the Avia layout builder, but there's nothing crazy complicated going here. Which means if you wanted to make your own custom home page, you can just simply make a new page with the add new button and use whatever tools are in here. You could even use a plugin if you wanted to like element or another page builder and make a home page. And when you're ready for it to be the home page, you would just change that in settings reading. Oh, that's not actually true. I just realized now that that's actually handled by the theme as well. But my point being, you can still, you can edit this home page, right? And what I would do is I would make a new page to test, right? Call it test home page, test out your solution there. And then when you're ready, you can go in and edit the home page to match that. Use the things that you wanted. Yes. So the other ones here though, dashboard. If I click on this, as a reminder, the dashboard is the page that shows C panel or has people sign up for an account if they don't have one. If I click on that, you're gonna notice nothing. And that is because this is a special page that we design as part of our more custom theme to make Dominion's own work. So you're really not gonna wanna touch that page at all. If you need to make some kind of change to that page, let us know and we can help you with either editing some of the theme files or possibly, like I made some minor changes to that when I was domain of one's own admin. But what I did was actually go into the appearance, customize menu, and I did some additional CSS in there that applied to the whole site instead. Okay. And that's obviously very reversible, right? So I can just comment out my CSS or delete it if it broke something. The thing with the dashboard as well is just going back to that remove dashboard access plugin that you were talking about where that's turning off, you don't want people who are authors, it's turning off this dashboard in favor of this other dashboard. So on a standard WordPress site, you go to URL slash dashboard, it'll go, oh, you wanna log in. I'll just take you to the login page. But here, it takes you to your account dashboard, which I think is stylish. Yeah. The other one that works very similar to that is user information. Not every site has it. Some people delete it or disable it, but the user information page you're also gonna notice is empty. And this is, sometimes it's called migration information, but basically there will in most cases be a page that allows people to set an SFTP slash FTP password and also get a backup, a full backup out of their account. So that's a very common thing to have. You'll notice that in state you hear, and most sites that'll be under manager account and then user information. Yeah. And it looks like this. So that's another one that is sort of manually defined. There are ways to edit that. And if, you know, via the theme files or if you want to, you could have a different type of site, a different page linked to from here that then would link to this one. There's a lot of combinations of things that can happen, but just note that this is one that you can't out of the box, just edit. Then, but other than that dashboard and user information page, the rest of these are really just standard pages. So even here we have a request form. Now we don't have the state you site set up to require the request form, but certainly lots of schools do. And when I click on this, you'll notice that this is just a gravity form block, basically. So the form itself, I can actually go and edit if I go into the gravity form section here. And you can have this look and say whatever you want to do. If you're comfortable with gravity forms already, you know that there's a lot of things that you can do in gravity forms and that's all fine. Note that on the technical side of this, the way Domain of One's Own works as a system is it's just saying, hey, if we have an account and they don't have the author role or better, if they're not author or admin, basically, bring them to this request page, this form page. So you can have this form say whatever you want it to say. You could make a second form. Like if you wanted to test something out and you say, I'm gonna make a new form, we'll leave the existing one in place, you could do that. You can make a new form, show it to your colleagues, say does this all look good to everyone? And when you're ready, you could swap it out. You could change that request form page. If I edit it here, I could swap this out to use a different form, right? If I only have one form right now, but you can select that over here in the gravity form section. You can also put more information here. You can literally, it's Gutenberg, right? So you can just start typing, hey, fill out this form, please. Yep. You can put whatever you want there. You can put links to more information. You could have video, anything that's possible in WordPress is possible there as well. So that is ultimately just a page that you can edit. Most people just have that form there though. And then we have a privacy policy. Not every site's gonna have that, but you can also have, of course, other pages on the site. Finally, you can have posts too. Now, by default, the posts aren't gonna show up anywhere the way we have things set, but you could link to different categories. You could have the posts set up to show up on a different page. There are ways to do this, right? And we can definitely help you with that, but that kind of leads us to another thing that I thought would be good to talk about sort of like what is here, right? Like what do you have in this main site versus maybe should live other places on the main one zone? So yeah, one, sorry, go ahead. Well, I was just gonna say just in the name of keeping things sort of trim and speedy because this is where all your users are gonna go. How you structure things can have a lot of impact on that. Yeah, it's, I would really advise folks to, if you have, say, additional documentation or blog posts or anything like that that you want to make for your project, I would suggest you consider not doing it on this site just to keep this site as small and lean as possible for the reasons Pilate just said, right? So it's not going to necessarily break anything if you don't do that, by the way. There's plenty of schools who do just thinking as a matter of what's the ideal place for these things to live, it's probably good to keep this site as simple as possible. Yeah. And trim down as possible. So what can you do, right? If you're not gonna put something here necessarily, where can you put it? Well, you can still, you could put it in a different C panel if you wanted to. You don't necessarily have to. Keep in mind that this C panel is available to you. You're not gonna wanna put tons and tons of sites because sometimes a lot of high traffic sites in one C panel can actually slow things down. But to have a few sites is very normal and something that we would suggest even. So if you're going into WHM, kind of taking a trip into WHM for a second here, and you're going to your list account screen, you sort this by set update for most people that first thing, the first thing created will be the C panel that holds this site. So if I go in- I've been going through it alphabetically for years. I figured this trick out a couple months ago and it's life-changing for someone that works in reclaim. I feel like an idiot. I feel like a fool. No, no, don't worry. I did the same thing. But that would be my suggestion because there isn't necessarily a WHM CS entry for this site. That's the thing to keep in mind because it kind of exists outside of a person, right? So I would sort that by set update. But then when you get into that C panel, you can go into my apps and view things that are... Now we have a couple different things in StateU but you could have, for instance, your Domain in One's Own landing page with the links to WHM and WHM CS and tools like that and our support. That lives in this same C panel, right? The documentation site that most schools start with or most schools have, but you don't have to use necessarily, is usually lives in that C panel at slash docs. The cool thing about that one and the Domain in One's Own admin, keep in mind that that's using a directory. So if I go to that site here, it actually looks kind of like it belongs on the same... URL, the same domain. Yeah, well, and it is on the same domain technically, right? But it looks like it's part of one WordPress install even though it's not technically. So you can do a lot of things like that, right? So there's even a nice link to go back to stateu.org from here, right? So, but this is its own WordPress site. So this has its own login, it has its own, of course, database and files and stuff which means that you can make this thing do whatever you want. It's not gonna really meaningfully affect the main site. It also means you can break things over here. You can be a little bit more experimental potentially. So if you're looking to spin up your own documentation, I would consider doing something like we do with our default documentation and put it in a sub directory or maybe a sub domain, right? Maybe it's at docs.stateu.org potentially. There are a lot of different things you can do though. But keeping it separate keeps it sandboxy, I guess. Yeah, I think sandboxing is a good way to describe that. I like that. So it allows you a lot of flexibility too, right? So you can do things like get really fancy, like maybe you wanna keep all page builder use, like Elementor and plugins like it. Maybe you don't wanna use that on your main site because you're worried about things getting slow. There are schools that use Elementor, by the way, it's not necessarily a problem but those plugins can slow down a really high trafficked WordPress site in my experience. But you wanna have a fancy site where you go crazy with the design, do it on a different one, you're not even gonna have to worry about that affecting your main site as much. Yeah. Yeah, so that's another kind of angle to think about when you're cleaning these things up. Maybe you have some things and you move them out to a different WordPress install. You could even use the WordPress's own import-export tool, like if you've got a bunch of posts, you can definitely do that. Just go to tools, export, and it'll ask you what you wanna export. Just maybe you just pick posts, maybe it's only a certain category of posts, right? Note that this tool now, when you go import on the future home of the content, when you import, it'll ask you if you wanna import images, so you can say yes. It never used to do that, which made it kinda not that useful. I remember it never used to do that and I remember moving over a lot of images manually so that things wouldn't break and it was... Yeah, it will now do that as long as the posts haven't been deleted in the old place, right? They have to exist over there for them to be able to load the images in, but once you do that, then they're on the new site and then you can delete them from the old site. So that's a good strategy that I would personally use if I wanted to make this kinda change. Again, not that I'm saying this is necessarily a bad thing, a more thinking strategy long-term, right? So if you have this stuff in your site right now, it's not necessarily a problem if things are working for you. Okay, so some other things I wanted to kinda chat about in terms of the homepage. So the unfold theme itself is actually pretty flexible. It's one of the reasons we use it. It is, yes, we have it look like this, but we mentioned before that you could technically make a custom homepage and set that and we could help you with that or you can port those changes into the homepage that exists. And so I thought maybe we'd kinda demo that a little bit and what that might actually look like. Before we even go make a homepage, I wanted to kinda show what is possible with Unfold because if you go, Unfold's kind of a weird theme, to be honest, and it has very little in the customizer. There's really almost nothing. There's menus and I guess there aren't, we're not using any widgets really, but there's not gonna be much here and for Unfold, that stuff lives in a different menu. It lives in this theme options menu. Yeah, in fact, we usually, when we're doing training at least, we usually just tell people, you know what, don't worry about the customizations menu. There's not gonna be a lot there for you, but there's a whole space that's dedicated to everything that you could do and it's over here in this little bar, which is. Yeah, it's one of those things that's super nice if you're less familiar with how these things are often done. However, if you are familiar, it'll be, I remember the first time I went looking for this stuff, I was like, does Unfold have no options? Like what is this? How did you get it to look like this if there's nowhere to make it look like this? Yeah, so theme options and there's a whole big menu here. There's a ton of stuff in here. So first of all, you can, from here, select which page is your front page. So before I mentioned that you could make a custom homepage and set it. Well, that's where we can do it. You can change the logo from here. You can change the favicon. There's some other settings like light boxes for images. Okay, that's cool. I would not use this page preloading option personally. This will basically put a little spinner on your page while things are loading. That's kind of an old web thing and by old, I mean like late 2000s and it actually makes things feel slower in my opinion. It's true, psychologically. Yeah, because it means that most of the time you're looking at this loading indicator when behind you 98% of the page is loaded but maybe not one image, right? Yeah. There's some layout options in here. If you go to general styling, that's interesting. Oh, yeah, okay. If you go to general styling, you can edit some of the primary colors and things and color scheme, that's really cool. Advanced styling. I haven't even, wow, okay, apparently you can get really, really specific. Well, this features an active beta. I didn't even notice that. So I've never really used this, but maybe you can do a ton. This is, again, one of the really kind of nice things about Unfold. It's also something that means you don't have to learn HTML. You just say this, or you don't have to learn CSS. You say this HTML and then this HTML element and then instead of figuring out how to target things with CSS, don't even worry about it. Yeah, there's some options for the way the menus show up. Alternative menu, all kinds of things in there. The header option, this is kind of one of the primary things I wanted to mention here is this, let me go back to the front end. This whole section up here is something that can be changed in Unfold. So you can have the logo in the center, right, and have the menu above. You can do all those types of things. You can change the sort of size if there's a literal separator. You can get really specific with that stuff. Sidebar, we're not really using the sidebar in most places, but there are places where the sidebar can show up on Unfold. So you can change what that sidebar looks like. I will mention too, I forgot to mention this earlier, but when you're looking at a particular page in Unfold, say the request form, you can actually down here in this layout section decide whether there is a sidebar or not on a particular page. Wow, things I'd never, ever knew about, ever. Took me a long time to find that one on, when I was at St. Norbert, I spent a good two hours writing custom CSS to hide the sidebar, and then I found this option later. I bet that was a really good moment for you. I bet you felt really happy. Work smarter, not harder. Yeah, well, I would have been happier if I would have looked for this first, but yeah. My point is though, Unfold offers a lot. I really think the move for most people is to use these options to make the thing look the way you want it to, instead of changing to a different theme, which will require some work. Again, some of that we can help you with, right? But I think this is the cleaner path. So yeah, and I should say, here let me demo this. If I change this to default, and then I go to this page, this form page, this is the sidebar, right? I don't really want this on the form page. Like what are people searching for, right? There's no categories, this isn't really a blog post. Recent comments. Yeah, exactly. So I can go in here and just go, click on Layout, and then no sidebar. I can also, instead of changing that for that one page, I could go into this sidebar, and say the default option for the sidebar is that there is none, right? Like that's all stuff that you can adjust. So that's an option. There's a footer section. What's in the footer? Is there anything in the footer? That kind of stuff. The layout builder, that was the layout builder we were looking at for the homepage. So there are some settings in here. Personally, I haven't really messed with this too much, but there's a lot of stuff in here. We're not gonna go through the rest of this because honestly, the rest of this is less important, I think. Maybe the blog settings page would be good, but... Yeah, I've done a tiny bit with the layer slider, but not in here. I've done it through the, as you were saying, the homepage page builder sort of thing. And even then the... Yeah, I think this is sort of like meta settings for that slider thingy. And it's not really something that you have to touch, honestly. I think you can delete the, remove the... It's called it a bundled plugin. I think what they mean is they've taken a layer slider plugin and rolled it in as part of Unfold, which again is kind of cool for us because we can offer it to all of our folks without folks having to worry about like, oh, is the slider plugin out of date or something like that? No, it's just part of the theme you're using. But you could technically turn that off. I've never done that, but you could. That's what makes the layer slider is what makes the... You know, when you load the page and all of the images fly on, that is the layer slider right there. Yeah, good point. Thanks, we didn't actually say that. And too, it allows this little layout thing here too, right? Yeah. But to keep in mind, like a lot of this is from, you know, a time before Gutenberg, right? So this was kind of the only way or like the only easy way to do a lot of these things, but now if you prefer to build things in Gutenberg or a page builder plugin, you could use those instead, right? So now knowing how many options there are, let's just kind of talk about like making a homepage, like what that would look like. Yeah, so we'll call this test homepage. I'm gonna set no sidebar down here. Okay. You don't want recent comments on our homepage? I feel like it's sort of, it's a classic to have that little sidebar. I know I've argued with somebody else in the house. I think on a blog that makes sense. I don't love it on a domain one zone homepage, but I... That's fair, no sidebar. Because there's no blog post is the thing. But you know, keep in mind that Gutenberg is actually getting more and more suited for this, right? The new block editor, you can go to this plus button here and there's all these like patterns that you can kind of start out with, which can do some kind of fancy things. Of course, you can just go into the blocks and grab like I want some columns and whatever, but I kind of like starting with patterns. So, because it kind of shows you what's possible, right? So maybe you do this, right? Yeah, and then you... Okay. Maybe we have some information about like, what is domain one zone up here? It looks like a museum based on the block that you chose. This looks like membership to a museum. Yeah, it totally does. But you know, for instance, like maybe you've got information about, you know, who can use this? And it's like, oh, for students, it's for faculty and staff. Yeah. You can use those sort of blocks underneath to say, oh, if you are a student, you could do your coursework here. And if you are faculty and staff, you might put a portfolio. Yeah. So you can, you know, you can go through here and kind of clean up some of this stuff that you maybe don't need. That's why I'm talking about with the patterns thing. Because I will say honestly, I don't interact with these features a lot. And I'm always kind of surprised what is possible now. I have to turn off my spell checking thing because it's like littered all over the place with crazy amounts of stuff here. It's bothering me. It's not recognizing the word domain? Yeah, I don't know, man. Organizations. Okay, it did organizations. All right. So, you know, there's a lot you could do here, right? You could do anything you can do with the WordPress block editor, right? And keeping in mind that that homepage, there's really nothing fancy going on here. We have on the default homepage, this get started link. All this does is link to the dashboard page, right? You can change this if you wanted to. You can replace it. It doesn't have to exist at all. There's a ton of things you could do. I do recommend having a link on the front that is basically just a big flag that says click here to log in though. Yeah, I want to mention UNF's homepage. I really think they did excellent work there. I'm not positive I should have pulled this up ahead of time. Yeah, I do have it, right? Okay, you do. So, yes, I believe they're using Elementor here, but this is a cool showcase of, I think a pretty well thought out page in terms of you've got some fancy visuals and also get straight forward to what is this thing? You sign up, you build something. You can publish stuff on the web. Cool. And then they have some examples on here. There's OU, OU Create is a good one. Create.ou. Yes. This one is a great example because this includes domain of one's own and WordPress multi-site. And so they have to kind of talk about WordPress and what it is. And then when you go on to, in their case, they kind of push people into WordPress multi-site. And if they need more, then they suggest people use domain of one's own. So that kind of has to sell the sort of both the why and how of the technology a little bit throughout this site. How people think through what they're trying to do and then they can go find a great place to do it. Yeah. When I was at S&C, I had to see- I was gonna say, are you gonna show off night domains? I'll show off night domains. I did nothing here to be clear. So I had a student do all of this and basically I helped, I clicked the button to switch it to make it our homepage. That's all I did. But I think this was good. We really wanted to sort of unclutter this a little bit and have it look attractive. And then we wanted a very simple, like how do I use this thing? You go sign up. Here's some documentation. Use the tech bar for help, which is the peer mentoring center staffed by students. And hey, we wanna see what you're doing, share your creation with the community. So we had a link to that. And then down here, we had a frequently asked questions page that has existed almost as long as the project. It's looked different over time, but there's some great ones in here. I love this. Maybe it's not here. Oh yeah, is it really my domain if you agree it? That's what I want. I can't put up anything I want. Ownership is a complex philosophical construct. Yes. Let's start. So there's a lot of things you can do and as you can see with our three examples we just put here and there are plenty of really great examples. You can drop these links in the chat too so you can go explore just what people have done instead of just watching us click around. All right. Yeah, I love Shannon's work here is amazing I think. And in terms of again telling a coherent like, hey, we have two services. We have domains one zone. We have WordPress multi-site. These things offer different things. Why would I want one or the other? I think Shannon's work here is an amazing distillation of that on one page. So that's really great. But my point being is all of these examples, they all have different objectives, right? Like the S&C one versus UNF, right? Like the UNF one is very focused on like a faculty community, right? Because that's what their project serves. The S&C one is trying to get like, hey, use this thing, we can support you and show us what you're doing with it. That's what we want you to know. UMW, you've come here, you wanna build something on the web, but you have two ways. What are the ways you wanna use, you know? And OU Create is kind of similar to the UMW one in that way. So, you know, maybe even taking a step back, maybe I should have done this earlier, but like when you're thinking about your homepage, what is the story you're trying to tell here, right? Like we have some stuff in our built-in one about web literacy, digital identity, reclaiming your content, and that's great stuff. I love that stuff, but how do you want to express that idea to your community or maybe you have a different idea that's more important to express here, right? Yeah. So that's all good stuff. So that was a huge tangent. Well, not really tangent, it's important, but you know, returning to our site here, right? We've got this test homepage. Let's say I'm done. Let's say this is all we're doing. Actually, I should put a button here. Let's put a button that let logs people in. So I know there's- Four tickets per special exhibition for faculty and staff. Yeah, it's perfect. What is, do you have any suggestions? I don't know. No, I think that's, that's what I would have put. Just like I didn't even- Oh, write a poem about domain and one's own. So I know, I'm pretty sure there's like a, yeah. I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure there's just like a button thing. Okay, let's put a button here that's like sign in, sign up. Sign up. And I can make this button a link and I'll make it go to dashboard. Oh, that's neat. I didn't realize it would do those little nice reviews for you. Yeah, it's kind of nice. I mean, obviously I could have just typed in state u.org slash dashboard, but this is nice. Yeah, it's good. So I could save this as a draft, of course, but keep in mind this is not my homepage. It's also not on my menu. So I could also just publish this. Yeah. No one really knows the URL other than you and me and everyone who watches this. Yeah, exactly. I'll be honest, I forgot what the URL was. Yeah. I don't think I even specifically said it. I think I went with whatever it, you know, picked. Default it too. So this is OK, but as you can see, some of our theme settings are making green text here where I personally didn't expect that to happen. So, you know, maybe I would change that. I'm just noticing now we have an interesting links thing in the footer. That's really funny. Let's go to Scaly. Make it, Taylor, no one's going to be able to see it. You've got to zoom in on that part of the screen. Enjoy your stay. That's great. I love that. So, you know, OK, this isn't part of the page, though. This is footer stuff, right? Yeah. We could adjust that. But, you know, this page is not the home page yet, right? So this is still the home page. It's not even, that page is not even on the menu. So you can pretty easily test these changes out when you are ready to make it your home page. All you need to do is go back into, let's again, let's say it's perfect. It is perfect. Yeah. I don't know what else you would want. All we need, and this is a reference to our OBS course, is all we need is a gift of coffee in, you know, I feel like we need it. and a scrolling band, you know. Got to put some gradient on that. Yeah. I wonder, you know, I probably have a gift of that somewhere. But anyway, all you need to do once you're ready is just go to this front page settings in Unfold and change it to test home page, right? So there's a lot you can do inside of this box of Unfold and even not using a page builder, right? Potentially. So yeah, hopefully that's helpful to folks when thinking about cleaning up and customizing this. Anything else you want to add, Pilot? I think that's everything. I just, I mainly, I feel like the takeaway here is that if you want to make it, you can. And you shouldn't. You can dream it, you can do it. If you can dream it, you can do it. And there's a lot of ways to set up little tiny sandboxes so that you don't have to worry about accidentally overwriting something that you don't want to touch. So don't be afraid. Great. Well, we'll see everyone in next session. See you later. Bye-bye.