WordPress offers university faculty, staff, and students a reliable and easy-to-use platform used to create and manage personal websites to convey individual interests and topics.
WordPress websites are primarily intended to meet the web publishing needs of faculty, staff, and students. This includes, but is not limited to, personal interests, research lab websites, personal scholarly websites, student organization websites, and some smaller group and sub-unit websites. However, WordPress websites are not a suitable replacement for official department and unit-level websites, which should be developed within IT’s Drupal web hosting option.
There is no request form for new WordPress websites. If you would like to request a new WordPress website, please follow the below login instructions. After your first login to WordPress with your NetID, a site will automatically be created.
To login to a UMass Amherst WordPress Site, visit websites.umass.edu and log in with your NetID and password. After you've logged in, you will be able to view a list of all sites that you've been assigned as an owner or an editor.
WordPress offers dynamic content creation with a rich content editor, a variety of themes detailed below, 2 GB of storage space and the ability to host both images and videos. If you have never created pages with WordPress before, please refer to the resources below on posts vs. pages, publishing and editing new posts, creating a static homepage and more. Additional support articles can be found in the CampusPress Knowledge base.
In addition to our UMass Amherst branded themes, you can select from these accessibility-ready themes from CampusPress.
WordPress offers a variety of plugins, which can be found on the CampusPress website. Please note that not all plugins found on this page are currently allowed on the UMass Amherst platform due to ongoing security and accessibility reviews.
CampusPress, the WordPress hosting platform designed for higher education, offers two main modes of support; a 24/7 ticketing system, along with a support article hub containing articles and video tutorials from basic site setup and page creation to advance site and privacy settings.
IT’s WordPress service is open to all students, faculty, and staff at UMass Amherst. To log in to your website, go to websites.umass.edu and log in using your NetID and password. Your WordPress website will be automatically created after your first login.
Your WordPress website’s URL is https://websites.umass.edu/NetID/ Where NetID is your IT Account NetID. Note: We cannot change the URL for your website.
WordPress sites can be automatically provisioned for a team or group with an existing subsidiary account in the same manner as an individual account. Many teams or groups already have an IT email account (subsidiary account) they use for special functions (e.g., as a contact email address). We recommend that staff members use this account to log in to websites.umass.edu and to create a website for their group.
If you do not have an email account for your group, please follow the listed instructions on how to request a subsidiary IT account.
As a reminder, WordPress is not intended for hosting official department and unit-level websites.