CUNY Academic Commons

I'm talking with Laurie and Zach about updating our featured areas for courses, sites and groups periodically with interesting new Commons projects, since they are also going to be doing this for our Wikipedia page.

To help with the process, I wanted to get all of the workflows in one place for them and for future reference. First, a reminder that any user doing this needs to be an Admin of the main CUNY Academic Commons site. They might also need to log in and visit this link as per #21926 and the tool for resetting permissions:

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin

Updating Featured Sites and Groups (see #14180)

Go to this link or to the Wordpress Dashboard sidebar and Settings > Home Curation):
https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cac-home-curation

You can search for the group or site you want to feature, remove old ones, and edit the excerpt if the auto-populated one is too long or unclear.

Updating Featured Courses (see #11298)

At https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=cac_course, find the courses you want to feature. Click through to them and make sure that they have a Featured Image. Grab each course's ID by visiting our mousing over the "Edit" link and looking for the six-digit ID in the URL.

Go to this link or to the Wordpress Dashboard sidebar and Courses > Featured, then enter in the IDs:
https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?page=cac-courses-featured&post_type=cac_course