Environmental Health - WordPress + GeoMashup

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Getting Started


Login to your program's WordPress Site

https://sites.evergreen.edu/environmentalhealth/

Driving in WordPress


Change your display name

You can control how your name appears next to your writings. Remember, these sites will be public so use a name you feel comfortable with being in the public sphere, such as first name and last initial.

  • To change your display name, click on Howdy, [your display name] in the upper right corner.
  • Click on Edit My Profile
  • Enter desired display name in the Nickname (required) field.
  • Select and set desired display name using the Display name publicly as drop-down box. Note: this will change all references in your site, even for posts that were already published.


Writing and Managing your content


Posts

(To be determined by faculty and students - may include:)

  • Entries that use the location as an organizing principle for each entry including:

Images, video and linked files


Geolocate Posts

Your site is using the GeoMashup plugin so a Google Map will appear at the bottom of each post you are editing.

  • You can drop a placemark to locate your post. Tip: single click the map to insert a placemark.
  • For places you will be posting form frequently, consider Saving the Location.
  • Go to your sites global map to view your post and it's geolocated position on the map

Embed a Map

  • Use the same shortcode [geo_mashup_map] to embed single maps on your geolocated posts
  • Optional: On your Global maps page use the shortcode [geo_mashup_category_legend] to add a category legend to filter map placemarks by post category


Additional WordPress Resources

  • Built-in Help
    • when you're logged into the Dashboard look in the upper right under "Howdy"
    • Help is context aware so will show you help based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
    • Built-in help videos (part of built-in help)
  • WordPress Tutorials
  • Lynda.com Video Tutorials

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Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.