Web content management (WiscWeb)

Last updated on June 6, 2025

WiscWeb offers significant value to the University by providing an accessible, secure, and intuitive WordPress environment for maintaining a campus branded website. The service is fully supported, offering guidance and instruction through every stage of the website journey. WiscWeb manages its own cloud hosting in Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allows for increased scalability and high uptime/availability. The service is utilized by 80% of campus divisions and currently supports 2,000+ websites for UW entities. As public facing websites, WiscWeb sites are viewed by millions of users all over the world!

“Without the service my small department wouldn’t have a reliable and easy to use option for website hosting. We don’t have funding for servers and hosting costs, let alone the technical expertise to develop and safeguard the WP platform and UW theme.”

– anonymous user.

Benefits

  • Simple, easy to learn interface
  • Site comes with the UW Theme (campus branded, accessible, standards-compliant code, functionality included)
  • Provides end user support via email, KnowledgeBase documentation, office hours, and Lunch and Learns
  • Offers a free training course in Canvas, as well as helpful training videos
  • Includes hosting and 3rd or 4th level domain reservation (sitename.wisc.edu or sitename.department.wisc.edu)
  • Includes server, application and plug-in management by WiscWeb (you just need to worry about your site content)
  • Offers increased functionality through vendor plugins like Gravity Forms and wpDataTables, as well as custom WiscWeb plugins like UW Publications, UW Social Share, and UW Reusable Content
  • Includes ongoing support for your WiscWeb site before, during and after going live

Requirements

  • Campus NetID
  • WiscVPN for Logging In

Getting started

Terms of use

WiscWeb terms of service

Options

  • Activation of service-approved plugins (most are self-activateable)
  • Users have the option to request customizations to the site logo and color (for an additional fee). Requests are subject to team member availability and are reviewed for accessibility, usability, mobile friendliness, etc. For these requests, please review the customization options and fill out the customization request form.

Pricing

Free

Related pages

Available to

  • Departments
  • Faculty
  • Researchers
  • Staff

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