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Greenea at 23:09, 17 January 2012

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Greenea: Created page with 'NOTOC ===Getting Started=== *'''Getting Started with WordPress''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen? ===Create a New WordPress Site=== [http://bl…'

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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]]''' - 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

===Writing and Managing your content===
*'''[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]'''
** Create your "Home" page - explore the text editor and add some filler content
** Create your "News" page (optional)
*'''[[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]] - only if you're working with Posts on a News page

===Images===
*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]''' - add an image to the body

===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)

===Adding functionality to your site===
*[[Plugin Overview]]
====Embedding media====
*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Add Video]]
*[[Soundcloud - WordPress|Embed audio files using SoundCloud]]
**AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries

===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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 ===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]] - only if you're working with Posts on a News page

Museum or Mausoleum - WordPress - Revision history

Greenea at 23:09, 17 January 2012

Greenea: /* Embedding media */

Greenea: /* Writing and Managing your content */

Greenea: Created page with '__NOTOC__ ===Getting Started=== *'''Getting Started with WordPress''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen? ===Create a New WordPress Site=== [http://bl…'

Greenea: Created page with 'NOTOC ===Getting Started=== *'''Getting Started with WordPress''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen? ===Create a New WordPress Site=== [http://bl…'