Creating a blog or website during the Simulation Exercise is optional. Follow the guide here if you want to do so.

Any questions about this? Contact Jon.

 

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How do I make a blog or site? Top

Follow this link, and fill in the boxes. Make sure you use a sciencespo.fr email for the signup – because otherwise the signup will fail. You will receive your username confirmation by email.

 

How to have more than one person administer the same site? Top

This is possible for – for example – sites for political groups in the European Parliament, or for institutional secretariats. First one player has to make the site (see the previous question). Then subsequent players need to create usernames for WP – follow the same link but choose “Give me a username” and not “Give me a site”. The player who made the initial site can then add the additional users to their site after logging into WordPress.

Problems understanding this? Check with Jon who can do these allocations for you.

 

What are the best tools for editing a WordPress site? Top

A regular web browser on a laptop is the best option in most cases. On mobiles or tablets you can use WordPress apps for iOS or for Android.

 

How can I change how my site looks? Top

Look under Themes in WordPress. No theme there that’s suitable for what you’re looking for? Have a look at the WordPress Themes library, and then tell Jon which theme(s) you would like installed. The only catch – these themes will then also be available to all other players in the Simulation Exercise.

 

Is my site password protected? Top

By default WP sites are not password protected – so as to allow players who are not themselves administering WP sites to read content. Please put a disclaimer somewhere on your site that this site is for a simulation exercise. If you want to, you can activate the plugin “Password Protect WordPress Lite” and protect your entire site, but if you do this please use the default password that will be told to you at the opening of the Simulation Exercise.

You might also additionally set Settings > Reading, and check “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”.

 

Can I upload photos and video? Top

We have comparatively limited server resources, so there is a 24mb per file limit. In practice that means photos are fine, but videos probably are not. Please upload your videos onto some other platform like Youtube, and then embed them in your WP pages (pasting in a Youtube URL accomplishes this).

 

I want to send a newsletter from my WP site – how? Top

Follow the Mailpoet link in the WP admin. Please also only send emails to sciencespo.fr emails, and to the emails of the people running the Simulation Exercise, and not to masses of people outside

 

There is some other function I want – can I get it? Top

Probably. Contact Jon and he’ll do his best to make it work!