Landscapes of Change Winter Q - WordPress

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Create a Process Blog at http://blogs.evergreen.edu using WordPress, a web publishing platform. See an example of what you'll be building at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/demarcken/.

Create a New WordPress Site

  • Login at blogs.evergreen.edu (each of should should already have accounts that were created last quarter)
  • Create your site by clicking "Create new blog/account" from the front page of blogs.evergreen.edu

Change Some Important Settings

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  • Change your Site's subtitle or Tagline Settings > General
  • Change the default Discussion settings Settings > Discussion
  • Change the Permalinks (URL structure) settings Settings > Permalinks to Postname - this will allow category pages to work properly
  • Change your privacy settings Settings > Privacy - by default your site is closed to the world

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 when using the Geo-mashup plugin.

Designing Your Site

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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)



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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.




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Navigation

Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site.

  • Create a custom menu that allows navigation to daily writing practice page with weekly sub-navigation structure
  • Create a menu link to go to your global map page




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Adding functionality to your site

Activate plugins to extend the core functionality of WordPress. For more about plugins see: 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]


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