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<div class="intro">[[Image:Blue-l.png|left|75px]]WordPress is a web publishing platform available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu<br />
Queer Pleasure and Politics students will be contributing to a private group site at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/qppmap/ <br /> </div>

===Getting Started===
*'''[[Getting Started with WordPress]]''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
*[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/qppmap/ Login to the Queer Pleasure and Politics Map site] - author accounts have been pre-created for enrolled students


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

===Writing and Managing your content===
====[[Get Published - Pages and Posts|Adding new posts]]====
*Title your post with your Location

====Working with [[GeoMashup Google Maps plugin]]====
*Set coordinates for each post using geo-mashup
*Add the following short code to embed a map of your post's location
<nowiki>[geo_mashup_map]</nowiki>

====Adding Media====
'''Set your featured image'''  -  featured images will appear in the global map balloons as well as at the top of each of your posts. You can resize and crop these images within WordPress.
#Click the "Set featured image" link
#Select files from your hard drive or drag and drop
#Click the "Edit image" button to resize and crop your image to the necessary size to fit in the balloons and at the top of your post '''250px x 100px'''.
#Click Scale image and set the width to 250
#In image crop set the selection to 250 x 100 - move the cropped selection (if neccessary) and click the crop icon to apply
#Click the Save button under the image
#Scroll to bottom and choose "Use as featured image" and close out of the image editing window
*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]''' - add an image to the body a post (these images will not appear in the balloon on global map).
*[[NextGen Galleries - WordPress|Working with image galleries]] - have a lot of images? Try using a NextGen image gallery to organize theme.

====[[Categories and Tags]]====

==== 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 


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