{"id":1114,"date":"2019-12-03T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/styleguide\/?page_id=1114"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:39:38","slug":"support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/request\/support\/","title":{"rendered":"Request Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"type-intro\">We&#8217;ve designed this site to provide a wide range of guidance on building and maintaining a successful web presence. And, we&#8217;re here to help with specific requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/content-guide\/\">Content Guide<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/components\">Component Library<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/style\/css\">CSS<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/tools\">tools<\/a> documentation for troubleshooting and see if a solution to your issue already exists.  Or, check out some of the more common issues we see below.  If you still can&#8217;t find what you need, you can submit a request for more specific support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list toc\">\n<li><a href=\"#login-error\">I get an error when logging in<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#media-library\">I&#8217;m out of storage space<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#capabilities\">I can&#8217;t edit menus\/forms\/CSS<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#caching\">My recent edits aren&#8217;t appearing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#pdf-preview\">PDFs are displaying as a preview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#analytics\">I need analytics\/data<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#request\">Make a request<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/login\" title=\"\">Login to WordPress<\/a>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"login-error\">I get an error when logging into WordPress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually this happens when trying to log in directly to a particular site, typically using a link ending in &#8220;wp-admin&#8221;. For most sites, these links stopped working in early 2025. Please use any of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/login\">Login to WordPress<\/a> buttons in this guide going forward to access the list of sites you can edit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"media-library\"><strong>I&#8217;m out of storage space<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Oftentimes, there may be several large image files in the media library taking up more space than necessary.&nbsp; Review our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/content-guide\/images\/#editing-and-sizing\">guidelines for editing and resizing<\/a> for best practices in media management.&nbsp; Aside from reducing storage needs, you\u2019ll benefit your visitors by not serving them large, data-hungry files, which will improve site performance and search engine optimization.  If you feel your media library is optimized, reach out and we can provide more suggestions or storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"capabilities\"><strong>I can&#8217;t edit menus\/forms\/CSS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is probably because your user role doesn&#8217;t have certain capabilities. If you used to be able to edit these things, your user role may have recently changed. The standard role for new users is now \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/roles-and-capabilities\/#editor\">Editor<\/a>\u201d, and we have been migrating existing users to this role as well. If there are things you need to accomplish that are being hindered by your current capabilities, let us know and&nbsp;we can help assess whether they align with our overall strategy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/content-guide\/#roles\">roles and responsibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"caching\">My recent edits aren&#8217;t appearing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is probably because you edited some content that gets pulled into a page (e.g. a NinjaTables table, a post for a news feed) rather than edit the page itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To optimize website performance for visitors, pages are served from cache across a global content delivery network, which is different from your local browser cache. Individual page caches are refreshed whenever the page is saved. But in the case of editing content that doesn&#8217;t actually live in a page, like a NinjaTable, the page cache won&#8217;t be refreshed. Instead, you&#8217;ll need to manually clear the cache for the page(s) where the content appears. You can do this by navigating to the page(s) and clicking &#8220;Clear URL Cache&#8221; in the top admin bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pdf-preview\">PDFs are displaying as a preview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On sites using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/wordpress\/content-guide\/getting-started\/#cevbe\">Block Editor<\/a>, embedded PDFs display as an inline preview by default. You can change this behavior on a per-PDF basis in the block settings sidebar (typically on the right-hand side of the page edit screen). 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