Multimedia and Social Media

Introduction

The UIC Red theme includes components for slideshows, videos, and embedded feeds from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. If you have a need to embed content from sources not included in these components, contact us at red.uic.edu/contact and the Red team will discuss your needs and assist in finding a solution.

See examples of the Social Media feeds.

Grid Component

Posted on June 15, 2021

The Grid component is a framework of images with text and links to highlight content for your site visitors in a visually appealing manner.

Video Component

Posted on June 15, 2021

Adding video to your page is as simple as using the Video component, enter the share URL on YouTube, Vimeo, and other services to embed it in the page. The component provides three…

Facebook & Twitter Feeds

Posted on June 15, 2021

You can add a combined, side-by-side scrolling Facebook feed and a Twitter Feed with 1 – 20 items in the feed on your website. In the Facebook Feed, paste the full URL of…

Facebook Feed

Posted on June 15, 2021

You can add a scrolling feed of posts from your Facebook page with this embed component. In the component, paste the full URL of your page starting with https://. Only Facebook Page URLs…

Twitter Feed

Posted on June 15, 2021

UPDATE: The function to select the number of items to show on your website is broken on Twitter. Until Twitter/X resolves the issue, that feature in this component is not working. You can…

Instagram

Posted on June 15, 2021

The Instagram Component is currently only available on Default Template pages. To utilize the Instagram component simply follows the steps below: In your Red site’s WordPress dashboard, click on the left menu link…

Slideshow Component

Posted on June 11, 2021

See below for an example of a Slideshow component. Slideshows require at least two images to be uploaded, along with Alt Text (for accessibility purposes). You have the option to add captions to…