Welcome! This documentation website is a living guide for those who publish and maintain websites across the Cornell AAP network of sites (including informational pages, News & Events, Labs sites, and the AAP Alumni Archive). It includes technical reference for the sites’ components as well as guidance for editing everything from a simple news announcement to a complex landing page.
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Quick Start
A quick start training guide for AAP Web Contributors.
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Admin Guides
This section includes documentation for things you may need to know as an administrator or someone managing the site.
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Editor Guides
The Cornell AAP site lets editors publish and manage pages with many opportunities for expressive page design, the integration of manual curation or automated feeds of content, and navigational tools…
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Technology
This section includes documentation about key technologies and plugins used on the site. For a more technical overview of the codebase, please refer to the GitHub README.
Reference
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Reference: Blocks
The Cornell AAP content management system presents different editing fields depending on the content type and context. Gutenberg Editor The Gutenberg Editor is WordPress’s modern editing interface, optimized for long-form,…
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Reference: Page Templates
Page templates are a specific type of template file that can be applied to a specific page or groups of pages. The page template can be changed in the sidebar of the…
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Reference: Post Types
An overview of all the Post Types on the site.
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Reference: Taxonomies
A taxonomy within WordPress is a way of grouping posts together based on a select number of relationships. There are a handful of custom taxonomies registered on the site. Some…
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Reference: WordPress Tips
Managing Blocks (Gutenberg Editor) Type slash (/), the start of a block name, and return to insert a block without moving your cursor position. With a block selected, use cmd-shift-D…