The Sites page is home base. Every site your team hosts with us shows up here, and most of your day-to-day work starts from this page.
The cards
Each site gets a card, led by a picture of its home page, so you can tell your sites apart at a glance. Below the picture you'll find:
- the site's name, which you can change any time on its Settings page, and its web address;
- the platform, Omeka S or Omeka Classic, with the version installed;
- Files, the space taken by the media you have uploaded to Omeka, and Database, the space taken by the rest of the site. These figures refresh once a day, so they can lag a little behind reality.
We take a fresh picture of each site every night. A new site gets its first picture a few minutes after it finishes setting up; until then its card says A preview of the site will appear here soon, or Setting up your site… while it's still being built.
Changed your site's design and want to see it now? Point at the card and click Refresh picture in its top corner (on a phone or tablet, the button is always there). The card says Taking a new picture… and updates on its own, usually within a minute. If the site doesn't load, the card keeps its last picture and the bell at the top of the dashboard tells you.
An amber Update available badge on the picture means a newer version of the platform is waiting. See Upgrading your platform.
Click anywhere on a card to open that site.
The list
If you'd rather see your sites as rows, click List at the top. Each row shows the site's name and address, its platform and version (with Update available or Setting up underneath when that applies), and its file and database storage. Click a column heading to sort by it, and click a row to open the site.
The page remembers which view you chose while you're signed in. Click Cards to go back.
Finding the site you want
The Search box at the top matches site names and web addresses.
For more control, click Filters. You can filter by Circles (one circle at a time) and by Platform (pick as many as you like), then click Apply filters.
Circles are a light way to group related sites together. If you have not used them yet, Organizing sites with Circles explains how they work.
Working with several sites at once
Switch to the list, then tick the checkboxes next to a few sites (or the one in the header to select them all) and a Bulk actions button appears. From there you can Add to circle.
At the top of the page
- New site starts a new site. See creating your first site.
- Create Site From Template appears when your team has templates and your plan includes them. See site templates.
Creating sites is a job for team owners.
Opening a site
Click a site's card or row to open its dashboard, which shows what needs attention. The site's other pages are listed down the left side: Version, Modules, Themes, Backups, and Settings.
At the top of every one of the site's pages, Public Site opens the site your visitors see, and Admin Site opens the Omeka admin area. Our guide on logging into your site has the details.
The dashboard also has two buttons in its top corner:
- Copy Site builds a new site from this one. See copying a site.
- Back up now creates a database backup right away. See manual backups and downloads.
SSL certificates are installed and removed next to the Domain field on the site's Settings page, and the dashboard offers Install SSL when a site doesn't have one. See SSL certificates.