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University of Bristol comment moderation house rules

Posted on by Duncan Coutts

We have adapted these rules from the BBC’s House rules for comment moderation.

These house rules are for your safety and to keep the University’s website a healthy environment for discussion.

We welcome your comments, but please don’t post anything offensive or illegal.

Specifically, please don’t post anything that:

  • Is inappropriate (abusive, offensive or disruptive)
  • Is off topic (to the original content or the current conversation)
  • Contains personal information (either your own or someone else’s)
  • Puts children at risk
  • Is illegal, or glamourises illegal activity
  • Is defamatory (damaging to someone else’s reputation)
  • Is in contempt of court (anything that could affect the outcome of a court case)
  • Infringes anyone’s rights (including privacy rights)
  • Is posted for your financial gain (advertising, sponsorship etc.)
  • Isn’t in English (unless we’ve asked you to comment in another language)
  • Contains spam
  • Contains links to content that can’t be seen easily, or may be unsafe (viruses, spyware, paywalls etc)
  • Or doesn’t comply with the rest of our Terms of Use.

If a contribution to our website breaks these rules, then it will be removed. This helps us to ensure the website is appropriate for the vast majority of the people who visit.

How to create and edit post/pages

Posted on by Duncan Coutts

What are posts and pages?

WordPress allows you to add content to your site using ‘posts’ and ‘pages’. A post is a timely piece of content (eg an article, opinion piece or news update) that appears in your blog feed. A page is a static piece of content (eg an ‘About’ page, or page listing people or contact details), that usually appears in your site’s navigation menu.

Creating a post/page

Administrator, editor, author and contributor roles can all create post/pages.

Create a new post

  1. On the Dashboard, navigate to Posts > Add New.
  2. Give your post a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
  3. Add your tags and categories.
  4. Preview your content.
  5. When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.

Create a new page

  1. On the Dashboard, navigate to Pages > Add New.
  2. Give your page a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
  3. Preview your content.
  4. When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.
  5. If your site’s navigation menu is not set to add pages automatically, you may need to do this manually. Find out how to create and manage a custom menu (via EduBlogs).

*Contributor roles will have to submit their draft for review to an editor or administrator. Find out more about the difference between User Roles.

Editing a post/page

As an administrator or editor, you are able to edit any post/pages published or submitted for review by other blog contributors.

As an author, you are able to edit your own posts/pages, but not those written by others.

To edit a post, navigate to Posts > All posts and click on the Edit link under the post title you want to edit.

To edit a page, navigate to Pages > All pages and click on the Edit link under the page title you want to edit.

More about posts and pages

The Edublogs guide to posts and pages contains a full overview of posts and pages, the differences between them, and more instructions on managing content using them.