Creating a portfolio & site

Your portfolio is a place where you can create a WordPress site and also save post, pages, and comments you created on other OpenLab course, project, and club sites. You have options about making the portfolio and/or site private or public (or even hidden from search results.

Create a portfolio

Go to your Profile and click “Create Portfolio” (top right).

Choose portfolio settings

1. Choose a name and URL for your site. The URL is unique to your portfolio.
2. Choose an avatar (image) to associate with your portfolio
3. Decide if you want your portfolio to be public, private, or hidden.
   • Public: Content visible to anyone with the link and in the Portfolios directory. Anyone in the Macaulay OpenLab community can join.
   • Private: Content not visible to anyone but members of the portfolio, but is visible in the Portfolios directory/home page. Community members can ask to join and see content if they are accepted.
   • Hidden: Content not visible to anyone but members of the portfolio, and the portfolio is not listed in the Portfolios directory/home page. Only invited community members can join.

You can change these settings under Settings once you create your portfolio. If you want to enable posts, pages, etc from other portfolios, hubs, and course sites to show up on your portfolio, you can set that up under Settings >Settings

Create a site associated with your portfolio

Creating a portfolio means having a home for content you create across MHC OpenLab, but you can also create a WordPress site as part of your portfolio.

1. Click “Settings,” then “Site”
2. Choose a site URL (like your last name or the theme of your site)
3. Decide site privacy settings
   • Public: Anyone with the link can see the site, but you can choose whether the site shows up in search engine results
   • Private:
     • Visible only to community members or
     • Visible only to community members with a role on the site
   • Hidden
     • Visible only to community members who are admins on the site.
4. Decide what roles different members who joins the site have (see “member role definitions: associated site”)
5. At the bottom, click “Save changes”

Ta-da: Now your site is associated with your portfolio! You can click it to get to the Dashboard to edit your WordPress site