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Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site. | Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site. | ||
* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]''' - make sure to use the "feature filter" and '''choose a theme that supports custom menus''' | * '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]''' - make sure to use the "feature filter" and '''choose a theme that supports custom menus''' | ||
* Customize your header image - some themes allow for you to add your own header image '''Appearance > Header Image''' (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images) | * Customize your header image - some themes allow for you to add your own header image '''Appearance > Header Image''' (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images) | ||
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Revision as of 16:47, 7 January 2013
You Assignment
Create an individual WordPress site at blogs.evergreen.edu
Create a New WordPress Site
- Login at blogs.evergreen.edu
- Learn how to create your site
Writing and Managing your content
Images and linked files
- Insert an image
- Link to a file
- Featured Image - Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear in the global map balloons.
Designing Your Site
Working with themes
Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.
- Choose a theme - make sure to use the "feature filter" and choose a theme that supports custom menus
- Customize your header image - some themes allow for you to add your own header image Appearance > Header Image (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images)
- Make additional changes to your theme (advanced)
Sidebar "Widgets"
Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't set anything to your sidebar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.
- Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar
- Add external links to your sidebar
Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site.
- Create a custom menu that allows navigation to key category pages
- Create a menu link to go to your global map page
Adding functionality to your site
- Plugin Overview
- Enable the GeoMashup Google Maps plugin
- configure to your global map page to display a category legend using the shortcode [geo_mashup_category_legend]
Embedding media
Need More Help?
- WordPress Tutorial - for a step-by-step tutorial to get you started
- FAQs - common questions about using WordPress at Evergreen
- All WordPress articles
Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.