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Administrative Settings

Configure your site's administrative settings.

Site Info
Your site title and description.

Site Logo
How to add your own logo to your site.

Deleting a widget
Permanently delete...

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Getting Started

Getting up and running on OpenScholar is simple. 

Creating your site
How to obtain an OpenScholar website and how to configure your initial website settings.

Kinds of sites
Choose from five pre-set website structures that make it easy to organize your content.

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Managing Members

OpenScholar allows for a variety of roles and permissions for your website's content creators. 

Getting an OpenScholar Account
Learn how to get your account

Adding Members
How to add members to your site

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Creating Content

Take advantage of the powerful and flexible ways to create and display content in OpenScholar:

Pages
The basic unit of content on your website. 

Content apps and widgets
Gain additional functionality and easily display your content with apps and widgets, including people profiles, events, publications, news items,...

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Organizing Your Site

OpenScholar allows you to easily organize your website content.

Understanding menus
How to build the primary navigational structure for your website.

Creating Menu Links
Add links to primary or secondary menus.

Adding a post to a menu
Any...

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Design and Layout

OpenScholar gives you a great deal of control over the look and feel of your site. 

Managing the look of your site
Choose and easily change the design theme for your website.

Customizing your page layout
Arrange the content...

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Third Party Integration

You can easily integrate your favorite third-party services such as Google Analytics, YouTube, Qualtrics forms, and social media sites into your OpenScholar website. 

• Embedding Third Party Content
• Calendars
• Google Analytics
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Best Practices

Planning and creating quality content is often the most time-intensive part of a website redesign project. Harvard Web Publishing provides best practices and ideas to help you with the process.

From defining project goals to creating engaging content, you will find resources here to help you through the process. 

• Plan your website
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Using & Managing Apps

Take a short few minutes to watch this video for the quickest way to become familiar with Apps on OpenScholar. For more information, you can read the written documentation below.

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