WiscWeb - UW Theme 2.0 Support Links
The following document offers links to prominent instructional pages on the UW Theme 2.0 informational site. This doc is intended to help guide UW Theme 2.0 users towards the correct guidance when conducting KnowledgeBase searches for a certain issue.
Blocks
Core WordPress Core blocks
Many of the blocks in UW Theme 2.0 are native WordPress blocks. These are listed out on the UW Theme 2.0 website.
Custom UW blocks
In addition to core WordPress blocks, UW Theme 2.0 also supports several custom UW blocks based on the needs of the University.
- UW Accordion Block
- UW Back to Top
- UW Embed Blocks
- UW Featured Post (for Related Posts and single post links)
- UW Group of Links
- UW Hero Carousel
- UW Link
- UW People Listing
- UW Quote
- UW Story Slider
- UW Tabs
- UW Today.wisc.edu
Patterns
Users have the ability to create and utilize patterns in UW Theme 2.0.
Theme settings
Theme settings are edited under the Appearance menu in the Dashboard. This are includes things like:
- Sitewide settings
- Tagline URL
- Default meta image
- Custom 404 page
- Enable breadcrumbs
- Enable search (including Google Programmable Search)
- Color settings
- Red top bar, white main menu
- White top bar, red main menu
- Main title color
- Posts settings
- Add an external link to a post
- Link to external post URL
- Footer settings
- Address
- Map URL
- Contact email
- Contact phone
- Footer menus
- Website issues contact email
- Social URLs:
- X/Twitter
- YouTube
- Bluesky
- Podcast
- Google settings
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Theme plugins
UW Theme 2.0 offers a few different plugins that provide additional functionality.
Note: The WiscWeb service also supports some vendor and custom plugins that are compatible with UW Theme 2.0.
- UW Events (coming soon)
- UW People