UMass Chan CMS Blog

When a page should remain viewable, but you wish to remove from search engines.

List of resources regarding the weekly UMass Chan CMS office hours where we discuss accessibility issues, editing in the CMS, and process.

Snippets allow you to add pre-defined HTML template to your WYSIWYG content to ensure content is set in the proper HTML without having to know anything about HTML.

TinyMCE updated how iframes are created within the WYSIWYG editor when embedding forms or videos. This is to follow security best practices. This video provides instructions on a workaround, until this is fixed within the WYSIWYG editor, using an HTML block that can be dropped into the WYSIWYG in place of the iframe.

Listing blocks are used to dynamically gather CMS pages to create a list. The pages cannot be editing within the listing block. But, we can find where the pages are located by editing the listing block and seeing where the Faculty Container property or Root Page List property is pointing to in the content/page tree in the CMS.

How to add a link to your PDFs, or other files, in your CMS content.

Create menu items that link to PDFs, or any file, using the CMS page Shortcut property.

View a report of visitor views of site files that exist in the CMS media tree for your site.

FAQs are small snippets of content that can be used to create an expandable list on a page.

The Optimizely UMass Chan templates are set up for consistent branding across all sites with the flexibility to customize page layouts for all your content needs.