Entries by Reclaim Hosting

Discussion Settings

What makes WordPress a powerful platform is that not only can you create a dynamic website, but you can also allow dynamic discussions about the content with your visitors. Comments, the bread and butter of the discussion, can add to the overhead of your website management. You have to keep up with responses to your […]

Installing Grav

Log into your cPanel: Navigate to Files > All Applications: Type Grav in the top right search bar and press Enter. Click Install this Application. Choose where you would like the domain to live. If you need further assistance on this section, read through our guide on Subdomains Vs. Subdirectories. You’ll also want to choose […]

Site Privacy

WordPress is a platform intended to allow you to share your thoughts and ideas freely and easily with the world. However, there are options to publish to a more limited audience. The first way is to limit who can find your website. That is done by keeping search engines, like Google, from seeing (known as […]

Installing Scalar

To get started you’ll need to login to your control panel (https://sites.dtcc.edu/dashboard) using your Delaware Technical Community College username and password. Navigate to the Application section and select Scalar. You can also use the search function as well. When you click on the Scalar icon, you will be taken to the Scalar information page. Click install […]

Managing Spam: Akismet

SPAM! Everyone hates it in their email. If you’re new to WordPress and blogging platforms, spam exists in the form of comment spam – people (or vermin) leave comments promoting their services or schemes, on a post or page. So how do you deal with comment spam when it can come in even more often […]

Installing Mediawiki

To get started you’ll need to login to your control panel (https://sites.dtcc.edu/dashboard) using your Delaware Technical Community College username and password. Once logged in you’ll be at the homepage of your control panel. Navigate the Applications section of the cPanel and click All Applications. Find and select MediaWiki. The next page gives you more information about the MediaWiki software. To […]

File Structures and the File Manager

Web hosting is, at its basic core, files and folders on a computer that is connected to the internet and setup to distribute them. How that computer (typically a server) is set up to do that is covered more in LAMP Environments but this article will explain the idea of the file structure and how it relates […]

WordPress Export/Import

If you are using your WordPress, you can also get an export of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. The WordPress export is great for grabbing the content of your WordPress site so that you can import it into another WordPress host, such as WordPress.com or WordPress.org. Note: Exports do not include plug-ins, […]

Setting Up FTP

There may be times when you need to upload files to your website in the Delaware Technical Community College web hosting environment. There are a number of scenarios when this might be necessary: You’re working with an application that allows you to install plugins/extensions, but the files need to be manually added to your file […]