Difference between revisions of "MIT - WordPress Professional Portfolio"

Revision as of 11:15, 9 October 2015

What is an online professional portfolio?

How are you going to use this site for your academic work?

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 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

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

Writing and Managing your content

Images, video and linked files

Insert an image
Image Galleries
Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the hte URL link into the content area of your page/post
Link to a file
Audio

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)

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
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

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.

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.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+__NOTOC__
+[[Image:Blue-l.png|right|75px]]
+===What is an online professional portfolio?===
+* How are you going to use this site for your academic work?
+===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]]
+====Settings====
+* '''General''' - change your tagline; change your time zone to Los Angeles
+* '''Reading''' - change your site's privacy settings (defaults to Evergreen users only)
+* '''Permalinks''' - set this to Post Name
+===Writing and Managing your content===
+*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
+*[[Categories and Tags]]
+===Images, video and linked files===
+*[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]
+*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
+*Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the hte URL link into the content area of your page/post
+*[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
+*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
+===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
+===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.
+{{WordPress Help}}
 [[Category:2015-2016]]