The theme for your blog is what drives the look and feel of your site.  On June 7, CampusPress by EduBlogs retired the previous themes that were outdated in style or coding practices, or were not mobile-friendly.  If you were using a theme that has been retired, you probably noticed a new look for your site after June 7.  That is when sites with retired themes were automatically converted to the “EduBlogs Default” theme.

Choose a new theme by navigating to your Dashboard, then selecting Appearance, and Themes.  For this site – https://about.blogs.rice.edu – we selected one of the new themes, Anarko Notepad.  Cool, huh?

In the new CampusPress environment, several of the previously available image formatting tools –like border and padding– are now part of a plug-in. If you don’t have time to become familiar with a new plugin for your first post in the new CampusPress environment, here is how to add border and padding the manual way.

• Add Media and select your image
• Select the aligment (left, right, center, etc.)
• Insert the image into the post.
• Go to the Text* version of your content and look for the img class code for that image. img class code  is found between greater than/less than symbols (<>) and looks something like this: img class=”alignleft wp-image-300 size-medium” style=”padding: 15px;” src=”https://about.blogs.rice.edu/files/2015/05/Butterflies-44552314-small-200×300.jpg” alt=”Rainbow Butterflies” width=”200″ height=”300″ border=”1″ /
• If your image does not have the phrase about padding or the border, just copy it from the code below and paste into your img class code.
  • border =”1″ (bigger numbers mean thicker borders)
  • style=”padding: 15px;”  OR you can specify more padding than one side or the other
  • style=”padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 5px;” (bigger numbers mean more white space around your image)

*Text: If you usually compose your content in the Visual mode, look for the tab labeled “Text” to see the HTML code.

Start blogging today with a new blog, or continue updating your previous blog. Use your Rice NetID to login: https://blogs.rice.edu.

Login to https://blogs.rice.edu to get started. After you’ve logged in, you will have a Dashboard. Hover over the word “Dashboard” to see the drop down menu, then select “Create a Site.”

Name your site* and start blogging. Change the theme whenever you like. Add widgets and move them around.

*Naming your blog

Blogs.rice.edu supports blogs and web sites with URLs ending in rice.edu.  For URLs ending in .org,  CampusPress provides a lease option for $100 per year.  Rice community members can contact the Help Desk to inquire about specific domain names.

Blog content

Sites created and managed in blogs.rice.edu should not contain content, data or files that are sensitive or confidential to the university, as defined by Rice Policy 808, on protecting personally identifiable data and other sensitive data.