Web Services & Standards
WordPress help & support
WordPress is the content management system for Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering websites. With WordPress, website owners and administrators can update content without having to code. You can request a website or support services by emailing webmaster@eng.ufl.edu. Please note that website owners are generally responsible for creating and updating their own content.
UF Mercury templates
The Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing and UFIT Web Services have partnered to create the new Mercury web templates for the campus community. The templates can be downloaded for use on various platforms.
All new sites on college WordPress infrastructure will be provisioned with the Mercury theme starting in January 2024. If you have an older site, contact us to migrate your site to Mercury.
Web standards & policies
This is an evolving set of standards and practices for use by administrators and editors of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering websites. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us.
College policies &
best practices
HWCOE theme (2019)
This is the previous college WordPress theme, released in 2019. If you have an existing site that uses this theme, see this section for how-tos.
All new sites on college WordPress infrastructure will be provisioned with the Mercury theme starting in 2024. If you have an older site, contact us to migrate your site to Mercury.