Economics HowTo

Signing-up for UWM Economics
To become an author on UMW Economics, you need to first go to the sign-up page and enter a username and e-mail address (you must use your UMW email). Make sure the "Just a username, please" radio button is selected.



If you already have an account on UMW Blogs (which is separate from your other UMW logins), you can skip this step.

Where and how do I log in?
UMW Economics is located at UMW Economics http://home.umweconomics.org.

To access the administrative back-end of this blog, you should see a login link on the main page. If you do not see this link, for whatever reason, enter the following line to the end of your url address: "/wp-admin" (no quotes) - the address should look like the following:

http://home.umweconomics.org/wp-admin

Once you are there, you will see two fields asking for your login and password, as pictured below.



How do I change my password?
Once you sign up for a blog, it's a good idea to change your password first thing. To do this, go to the Users tab in the administrative backend and click on the Your Profile subtab. From here you can enter your personal information and change your password at the bottom of this page.



Writing a Post
This is where posts are written and published. This is also where you can create pages. The Post, Page, and Link subtabs (which are the three subtabs of the Write tab) allow you, as you might expect, to write a post, create a static page (which is distinct from blog posts because pages remain outside of the blog's reverse chronology), and create a link which can be then categorized and included on your sidebar. The Post and Page tabs have almost the same exact layout and provide you with similar (but not identical) options on the right-hand sidebar. The Links subtab has three fields: link name, link address and link description (the last of which is optional).

How do I upload an image and place it in a post or page?
As with documents, you can easily upload and insert an image from your hard drive into a post or page. Go to Write &rarr; Post (or Page) and look for the "Add Image" button that looks like a picture canvas immediately following the "Add Media" title as pictured below.



How do I embed YouTube videos?
You have at least two options for embedding YouTube videos. And, in truth, embedding a video from most online video services has never been easier.

Copy and Paste Embed Code
This is simply a process of copying the embed code from a site like YouTube into the HTML tab of the text editor.



Anarchy Media Player
When writing a post or page in your blog, look for the little yellow "A" icon in the visual text editor and click on it. Next, paste the URL provided by the respective online video service in the dialog box. For certain video sites, the actual URL in the web browser field is not always the correct URL- for example, in YouTube you can find the correct URL in the field to the right of the video. Keep in mind that Anarchy will play just about any media (such as mov files, mp3 files, mp4 files, etc.), you just need to copy and paste the URL into the dialog box.

How do I upload a document and place it in a post or page?
You can easily upload documents, such as a course calendar or syllabus, into a post or page. Doing this is relatively straightforward. Go to Write &rarr; Post (or Page) and look for the "Add media" button that looks like a gray asterisk, as pictured below.

When you click on that button, a dialog box will appear offering you the option to upload a file from your hard drive, or to link directly to a file that is already online. Once you have located your file (whether on your hard drive or online) click on the "Upload" button or "Insert into Post" button, respectively.



If uploading a file from your hard drive, you will get a dialog box asking you to title the document, as well as to provide a caption and description (both of which are optional). Once you are done, click on the "Insert into Post" button and you are done.



How do I copy and paste word documents?
Click on the button the arrow is pointing to below- affectionately termed the "Kitchen Sink"- in order to get additional options for your editing toolbar.

Go from this:



to this:



After following the step above you will see an icon with the MS Word icon in your visual text editor (which the arrow is pointing to). Click on this and copy the Word Document text into this window and save it. This strips out all the MS Word code and "cleans" the text for publishing on WordPress. There may be some minor formatting you have to update afterwards, but most of the formatting from MS Word should remain intact.

How do I password protect a page or post?
Password protecting a post or page is quite simple. All you need to do is look for "post password" or "page password" in the "Advanced Options" section and enter a value into the text field. This value can be whatever you want it to be, but if you want others to see what is in this page or post, you will have to share the password with them.