Setting Up a Lab Site

Create the site

1. Go to the Network Admin > Sites
2. Click “Add New Site”
3. Fill out the fields for your new site. You can set the “Admin Email” to an existing user in the network by starting to type out their username/email.
4. Visit the dashboard of your new site
5. In the sidebar menu, go to Appearance > Themes
6. Activate the “Cornell AAP” theme
   • Do not skip this step! The “Cornell AAP” theme is what enables all the styles, templates, and content blocks on the site.
7. Add any users to the site. See the Adding New Users guide.

Set up the homepage

1. Publish a new page that will serve as the site’s home page. Use the “Landing Page” template to build out the page topper and content.
2. In the sidebar menu, go to Settings > Reading
3. Under “Your homepage displays”, select “A static page”.
4. Next to the “Homepage” labelSelect the page you just created for the Homepage.

Set up the main navigation

1. In the sidebar menu, go to Appearance > Menus
2. Create a new menu of top-level pages/links. Do not nest any menu items.
3. Select the “Navigation Pages Menu” display location
4. Save the menu
5. This menu should now display at the top of every page and in the topper of the homepage.