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===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]]

===Writing and Managing your content===
*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
**Create a post on your initial thoughts on X.
**Create a page
*[[Categories and Tags]]
** We will all be using the same 3 categories for our posts. Please create each of these categories as listed in your site.
**# X
**# X
**# X

===Images and linked files===
*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]'''
*'''[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|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.
* '''[[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)
*'''[[Custom CSS|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.
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar

====Front Page and Navigation====
*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
** not all themes support custom menus
** add a link to the class blog at X

===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. 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.
====Embedding media====
*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Video]]
*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]

{{WordPress Help}}

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 ===Images and linked files===

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Greenea: Created page with "__NOTOC__ 75px ===Getting Started=== *'''Getting Started with WordPress''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen? ===Create ..."

Greenea: Created page with "NOTOC 75px ===Getting Started=== *'''Getting Started with WordPress''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen? ===Create ..."