Welcome to Sites@UCI

With Sites@UCI you can quickly create a blog or a basic website using WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and content management systems.

We have recently rebranded Blogs@UCI to Sites@UCI to reflect the expanded use of the service. Both ‘blogs.uci.edu’ and ‘sites.uci.edu’ will work as website addresses.

Currently, only faculty, staff and graduate students can create sites. Undergraduate students who are collaborating with faculty or staff can participate by being given access by their faculty or staff sponsor.

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Creating Custom URLs

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

To improve the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website, it is helpful to optimize your URL. From Google’s “Guide to SEO (PDF)“: If your URL contains relevant words, this provides users and search engines with more information about the page than an ID or oddly named parameter would. In other words, if your URL is relevant to the topic … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.3.1

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

We have just updated to the latest version of WordPress, version 3.3.1 It includes a few new user interface changes and an improved file uploader. (This information and more can be found the WordPress Logo > About WordPress, when logged into you site.) We have updated our Help Docs to reflect the changes. Easier Uploading File Type Detection WordPress 3.3 … Continue reading →

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