If you are receiving large amounts of spam in your email box saying the message was from OpenScholar, you can turn off Anonymous Contact in your Settings. This will help reduce spam coming from the Contact form in OpenScholar. To turn this settings off, follow these steps:
Log in to OpenScholar and click on the Site Info widget (the widget in the header with your name).
By default, OpenScholar separates the CV and the Bio in the tab design. If you know HTML, you can write the link code for the file into your Bio post in the HTML editor mode.
To create the link with HTML code to write a link to the file:
1. Click on the Bio page and click Edit on the Gear icon.
2. Underneath the textbox, click on HTML View.
3. Choose where you want to put your CV in your Bio
If you are familiar with HTML, you can edit page sections using the HTML View. To turn on the HTML View, click on the Source button in the text box editor. You can also toggle back to the Rich text Editor by click on the Source button.
Many people wonder how to add files (a file link) inside a page. The easiest way inside the rich text editor is to:
Click on the Add Media icon.
You will see a popup box. Click on the browse button to add your new file (you enter the url if it's on the web, or if you already uploaded it on another page of your site, click My Library).
Add alternative text and a title to the file (if it needs it)
Click the Submit button.
You will now see the link to your file. Click the Save button.
Without having to go into the Admin Bar, you can edit (or delete) items right inside a page. To do this hover over the section of the page you want to edit. You should see a gear. When you click on the gear, you will be shown a drop down menu with choices to edit. Depending on the item you are editing, they edit drop down menu will be different.
This link will take you into the Admin Bar section where you can make your edits and save them.
OIT Web Development Services has begun a project to upgrade all OpenScholar sites to our Princeton Site Builder platform. Throughout the summer and early fall, we will coordinate with the owners of all active OpenScholar websites to move content from their old sites to their new sites.
As we transition over to the new platform, we have temporarily paused the creation of new faculty, researcher, and lab websites. If you fill out...
OpenScholar is a website building and content management tool available to faculty and graduate students for hosting professional profile sites and lab sites. OpenScholar sites can contain biographies, CVs, course lists, publications, galleries, and event listings.
