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<div class="intro">[[Image:Blue-l.png|left|75px]]WordPress is a web publishing platform and is available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu<br /><br /> </div>

===Getting Started===
*'''[[Getting Started with WordPress]]''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?

====Create a New WordPress Site====
[http://blogs.evergreen.edu blogs.evergreen.edu] is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an [[Getting Started with Email|evergreen email address]] and [[Evergreen Login - Getting Started|login]].
*'''[[Create New Site - First Time in WordPress|Create your first site]]''' if you are new to blogs.evergreen.edu.
* Learn how to '''[[Create Additional Sites - WordPress | create additional sites]]''' if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.


====Driving in WordPress====
*'''[[Dashboard Overview]]''' - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view

====Change Some Important Settings====
*Change your Site's subtitle or Tagline '''Settings > General'''
*Change the default Discussion settings '''Settings > Discussion'''
*Change your privacy settings '''Settings > Privacy''' - by default your site is closed to the world
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===Writing and Managing your content===
*'''[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]'''
*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead your latest posts.
*[[Categories and Tags]] - create a taxonomy for your site's content - only works with Posts

====Adding Media====
*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]''' - add an image to the body 
*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Add Video]]


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===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.
* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
* 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)

====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.
*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar

====Navigation====
 
*[[Custom Menus]] - allow you to modify the navigation for your site (optional)

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===Adding functionality to your site===
*[[Plugin Overview]]
====Embedding other media types ====
*[[Soundcloud - WordPress|Embed audio files using SoundCloud]]
*AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zotpress/ ZotPress] to list your Zotero citations in your WordPress site

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===Wrapping it up===
*[[What happens to my blog when I graduate?]]

==== Additional Resources ====
*[http://learn.wordpress.com/get-acquainted/ Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials] - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu<br> 
*[http://iplogin.lynda.com Lynda.com] (on-campus) WordPress 3 Essential Training - this is another training geared towards using Wordpress.com but if you skip the account setup portion most of the rest is relavent to blogs.evergreen.edu 
*[http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)] 



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