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*AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries | *AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries | ||
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===Wrapping it up=== | ===Wrapping it up=== | ||
Latest revision as of 16:57, 9 November 2011
More Examples:
Reviewing the basics
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)
- Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer a static pages instead your latest posts.
Images
- Insert an image - add an image to the body
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.
- 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.
- Add external links to your sidebar
- Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar
Designing the how readers will find your content:
- Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site (optional)
- Working with subpages
- Categories and Tags - only if you're working with Posts on a News page
NewStuff
Adding functionality to your site
Embedding media
- Add Video
- Embed audio files using SoundCloud
- AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries
Podcasting
Wrapping it up
Additional Resources
- Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
- 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
- Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
