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Getting Started

  • Domain of One’s Own Overview
  • Before You Sign Up
  • Best Practices for Choosing a Domain Name
  • Getting to Know Your Web Space
  • I Set Up My Account, Now What?
  • Introduction to cPanel
  • Accounts & Passwords

Control Panel

  • Introduction to cPanel
  • Creating a Subdomain
  • Subdomains vs Subdirectories
  • Cleaning up Storage Space
  • Adding a Redirect
  • Adding a New Domain Name

Web Applications

  • What is a Web Application?
  • Installing Applications with Installatron

Wordpress

  • Creating Footnotes in WordPress
  • Migrating Sites@UMW to DoOO
  • Installing WordPress
  • WordPress Editor
  • WordPress Settings
  • Posts and Pages
  • Themes and Customizing Your Site
  • Classic vs Block Themes
  • Themes and Plugins – Recommendations
  • Changing Your Display Name
  • Categories, Tags, and Menus
  • Uninstalling WordPress
  • Basic Privacy
  • Best Practices for Handling Media
  • Cloning a WordPress Installation
  • Adding a New User to a WordPress Site
  • Feeds (RSS)
  • Resetting your WordPress Password

Additional Resources

  • Technical Details: What is the server set-up like?
  • Sites@UMW or Domain of One’s Own?
  • Troubleshooting
  • Accessible Web Design

Web Security

  • Accounts & Passwords
  • Securing Your Site with SSL

Leaving UMW Domains

  • Leaving Domain of One’s Own: Overview
  • Leaving Domain of One’s Own: The Practical Steps

Omeka

  • Omeka Guide
  • Troubleshooting Omeka
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Creating Footnotes in WordPress

  1. After your text is in WordPress’s content editor place your cursor in the space where you want the footnote to appear. The contextual menu for the paragraph block should appear.
  2. From the contextual menu click the the downward facing arrow to reveal more options.
  3. Select the Footnote option.
DoOO's paragraph block dropdown menu with the Footnote tab outlined in red.
  1. Two things will happen when selecting the footnote option:
    • A footnote number will appear in text along with the footnote citation at the bottom of the page.
    • A corresponding number will appear at the bottom of the page where you can add your citation text
Footnote citations in Domain of One's own.

Below is an example of what footnotes will look like:

A small bit of example text talking about UMW website platforms with what the footnotes should look like, along with the note citations.

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Learn more about the different ways to use WordPress through our WordPress guides. Or book an appointment with the Digital Knowledge Center.

Written by Haley Gosman 11/14/24

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