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What is an online portfolio?

  • How are you going to use this site for your academic work?

Examples:

Getting Started

Create a New WordPress Site

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login.

Driving in WordPress

Writing and Managing your content

Images, video and linked files

  • Insert an image
    • Note: images are automatically resized to max dimension of 1200px. To change this go to Settings > Resize Image Upload
  • Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
  • Link to a file

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.

  • 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)

Sidebars

Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

Front Page and Navigation

Adding functionality to your site

  • Plugin Overview - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.
    • Activate the Tiled Galleries Carousel plugin to provide a better image gallery experience for your viewers

Embedding additional media


Need More Help?



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