While you can use WordPress for however you would like, here are some tricks and tips to keeping things organized.
Getting Access
Contact one of the professors/admins associated with the Renewable Energy Scholars (Nate Siegel and Dina El-Mogazi) and they will be able to add your Bucknell email to the list of users that can edit this site.
Using Hierarchy
When creating new pages (WordPress guide on creating pages), try to place them under a page that makes sense with the page you are creating. To do this, on the Edit Page of your page, click the drop down that is titled Parent in the Page Attributes box in the right column of Edit Page. Here you will choose the existing page that you find your page fits best under. You can look how the site is currently organized for ideas on where to place your page. For instance, the Water Tank page is under the Living Greenhouse page which is under the Energy Hill page. Most student research projects will go under the Living Greenhouse page.
Adding Visualizations
To add visualizations to your page to show off your awesome data, you will first need access to the Dashboard (link to documentation).
Once you have been approved, you need to set up the system and collect some data (link to documentation).
Finally you have everything you need.
- Go to the dashboard and log in
- Click on the “Generate Visualization” button in the top right
- Customize the graph and choose the sensors that you want to display. More detail about options are available in the Dashboard documentation.
- Once you are happy with the graph, copy the WordPress iframe code found below the graph. The code should look something like this:
[iframe id=iframe1 src=https://eg.bucknell.edu/~energyhill/Flower/web/create/visualize.html?id=# width=100% height=400px scrolling=”no”]
- In an actual iframe tag url, the “#” will be replaced by one or more numbers which signifies which data to display
- You can also play around with the width and height parameters to change the size of the visualization.
- Paste this in your WordPress page
- Voila! It should just work and you’ll have a beautiful graph that will update with new data!