Difference between revisions of "Cultural Landscapes - WordPress"

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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

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an Evergreen email address and login.

Create a group blog and add additional users.
Create your first site if you are new to blogs.evergreen.edu.
Learn how to create additional sites if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview

Settings

From your dashboard we need to change some settings in your site

General - change your tagline; change your time zone to "Los Angeles"
Reading - change your site's visibility settings to "Only registered users..." (defaults to Evergreen users only)
Permalinks - set this to Post Name

Writing and Managing your content

Content to include in your sites

Required elements for your group project.

Pages

"Introduction": outlining the issue, your group's approach to it, and the different components of your group's project.
"Media sources": a list of sources you found to be the best, and why for each.

Posts

Research paper
Media coverage analysis
Audio documentary (use mp3 format)
Visual documentation, such as:
- photographs
- video
- documents essential to your research
- other information relevant to your group project

Images, video and linked files

Insert an image
Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
Link to a file
Image Galleries
Audio

Sidebars

Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't anything to your sidebar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar
Add external links to your sidebar

Front Page and Navigation

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

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.

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)
Make additional changes to your theme (advanced)

Adding functionality to your site with plugins

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.
- Tip: Plugins can make your site run slower. Only activate those plugins you are planning on using and deactivate any plugins you're not using.

Wrap Up

What happens to my site when I graduate?

Additional WordPress Resources

Built-in Help
- After you've logged in, the Help tab is visible via the Dashboard, in the upper right, under "Howdy"
- Help is context aware so it will show you information based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
- Built-in help videos (part of built-in help)
WordPress Tutorials
Lynda.com Video Tutorials

Need More Help?

WordPress Tutorial - for a step-by-step tutorial to get you started
FAQs - common questions about using WordPress at Evergreen
All WordPress articles

Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.

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 ====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.
+*'''[http://wikis.evergreen.edu/computing/index.php/Group_Blogs_-_WordPress Create a group blog and add additional users.]'''
-* Learn how to '''[[Create Additional Sites - WordPress | create additional sites]]''' if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.
+*[[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====
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 From your dashboard we need to change some settings in your site
 * '''General''' - change your tagline; change your time zone to "Los Angeles"
-* '''Reading''' - change your site's visibility settings (defaults to Evergreen users only)
+* '''Reading''' - change your site's visibility settings to "Only registered users..." (defaults to Evergreen users only)
 * '''Permalinks''' - set this to Post Name
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 ===Content to include in your sites===
-Example site: http://blogs.evergreen.edu/glasgow/
 Required elements for your group project.
 ====Pages====
-*"Introduction": outlining the issue, your approach to it, and the different components of your project.
+*"Introduction": outlining the issue, your group's approach to it, and the different components of your group's project.
+*"Media sources": a list of sources you found to be the best, and why for each.
 ====Posts====
 * Research paper
 * Media coverage analysis
-* Audio documentary
+* Audio documentary (use mp3 format)
 * Visual documentation, such as:
 ** photographs
 ** video
-** geo-mapping using the [[GeoMashup Google Maps plugin]]
 ** documents essential to your research
 ** other information relevant to your group project
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 ====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.
+Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't anything to your sidebar 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
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 *[[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.
 **'''Tip:''' Plugins can make your site run slower. Only activate those plugins you are planning on using and deactivate any plugins you're not using.
-====Enable Maps to geolocate your posts====
-* Activate the [[GeoMashup Google Maps plugin]] - you will need this to geolocate your journal entries and also allows you to easily embed a map of each location on every post
-* Once activated, make sure to change your GeoMashup Settings to point to you "Map" page as the global map page - see [[GeoMashup Google Maps plugin | Create a Global Map page]]
 ==Wrap Up==
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 ====Additional WordPress Resources====
 * '''Built-in Help'''
-**when you're logged into the Dashboard look in the upper right under "Howdy"
+**After you've logged in, the Help tab is visible via the Dashboard, in the upper right, under "Howdy"
-** Help is context aware so will show you help based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
+** Help is context aware so it will show you information based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
 ** Built-in help videos (part of built-in help)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons WordPress Tutorials]