A-POP - WordPress

Week 1 Workshop

WordPress Tutorial for blogs.evergreen.edu (available in Evergreen's Help Wiki)

Access your site

Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:

Login to blogs.evergreen.edu
Navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login

Site Visibility

Your sites are currently set to be viewable by members of our college network, meaning anyone with an Evergreen login.

You can choose whether your site remains viewable by only the Evergreen community or you can make it publicly viewable.
To protect specific posts, edit the post's visibility and set to Private. Private posts can only be seen by you.

Accessing Your Peers' Blogs

Each of your blogs is linked at the main A-POP site, Asian/American: Pop Culture Crosscurrents - Spring 2019.

To view your peers' work, go to the A-POP Blogs page and click on a site title in the list.
Once at their site, you can provide feedback by commenting directly to their posts.

Display Name

How your Author display name can be changed site-wide.

Go to Edit Profile from the "Howdy, your name" drop down in the upper left admin bar
Change the "Display name publicly as" field to your choice. First name last initial is a good option.

Site Title

Your site's titles were created using the pattern "First Name's A-POP Blog." You can change this via your Dashboard.

Go to Settings > General
Revise the Site Title field and then click Save Changes

Writing and Managing your content

Get Published - Pages and Posts
Welcome page, "Hajime" - initial information to include: introduce yourself, and talk about what is it about pop culture that fascinates you
Categories and Tags - Every post you write should be added to one of the three categories provided: To Da Max, Mixplate, Talk Story
Custom Menus - let you modify your site's navigation and add links to new pages or post categories or create sub-navigation.

Images, video and linked files

Insert an image
Set a featured image for each post.
WordPress built-in image galleries
You can display Instagram Image Galleries as well. See: Setting up the Feed Instagram Pro plugin.
Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the URL link into the content area of your page/post
Link to a file
Audio

Week 2 Workshop

Troubleshooting/Questions?

How to delete the sample posts from your site

Go to the Dashboard > Posts > All Posts
Hover cursor over post name in list until menu pops up below post name
Click on the red "Trash" link

Copyright and Site Content

Use your own material whenever possible.
Site visibility: Public versus Network versus Registered Users of Site
Using and crediting work by other people: Creative Commons and Public Domain
- Creative Commons or Open License: copyright holder grants rights to users
- Public Domain: copyright holder waives copyright ownership
File upload versus linking to/embedding an external resource in your site.
Never link to an image on the internetz.
Using Google Search Tools and Usage Rights filter

Customize Your Site

Examples from previous students of A-POP

Recommended Themes

TwentyFifteen

This is the default theme for your site. This theme has a flexible Theme Customization panel located in Dashboard > Appearance > Customize, that lets you customize a few components.

Additional themes

If you would like to use a different theme, the following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.

Baskerville (custom header image)
Editor
Hemingway (custom header image)
Ignite
Padhang
Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts)
Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Sixteen

Additional themes may not have Theme Options but can be modified by Appearance > Customize

Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". Often times if you don't 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

Wayfinding for your audience

Considering layout design, navigation - How inviting is your site? Is content easily discoverable for viewers?

Week 6 Workshop

For this session we'll first meet in small groups of 3-4 people.

Each person is to identify one element of a peer's site that you really like and/or find successful and one element of your own site you feel could benefit from improvement - this could be both content and/or design elements.

We will then share out highlights from our small group discussions to the larger group.