The German Program - WordPress

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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

Settings

From your dashboard, update the following settings in your site:

  • Settings > General - here you can change your Site Title and tagline, along with the appropriate time zone
  • Set time zone to "Los Angeles" - you will need to update your time zone when abroad.
  • Settings > Permalinks - set this to Post Name

Change your site visibility

In order for your posts to feed/syndicate to the main class site, The German Program: Berlin Travelogues, your own site needs to be publicly viewable.

  • At the Dashboard, go to Settings > Reading to change your site's visibility settings
  • For this setting, choose either Allow search engines or Disallow search engines

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


Sections required for your site:

Pages

  • Such as Welcome or About, to be determined by faculty and students.

Posts

  • Journal entries that use the location/category as an organizing principle for each entry including:
    • critical and casual reflections about your travels: surprises, museum visits, concerts, encounters, etc
    • other information relevant to your spring work
Post Categories:
  • Berlin
  • PsychoGeography
  • PsychicCity


Images, video and linked files

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


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.

Adding functionality to your site with plugins

  • Plugin Overview - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Want to connect to a popular service that you don't see listed in the available plugins? Let Academic Computing know and we can look into adding it.
    • Tip: Plugins can make your site run slower. Only activate those plugins you are planning on using and deactivate any plugins you're not using.
  • Useful plugins for travelers include:
    • Simply Instagram


Wrap Up


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

Need More Help?



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