Difference between revisions of "WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu"

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Everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at wordpress.evergreen.edu

Getting Started

Creating a Site

Navigating WordPress

Configure Site Settings

Writing and Managing Your Content

Adding Images and Media

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 add 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 your latest posts.
Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site

Adding Functionality to Your Site

Use plugins to enable new features in your site.
Popular WordPress plugins at Evergreen

Moving Your Site

If at any point you want to move your WordPress site off of "wordpress.evergreen.edu" for your own personal use, simply set up your own domain and web-host, export your WordPress site, and Import it onto your private hosting.

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-__NOTOC__
-===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]].
-*New to blogs.evergreen.edu? [[Create New Site - First Time in WordPress|Create your first site]].
-* Learn how to [[Create Additional Sites - WordPress | create additional sites]] if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.
-===Driving in WordPress===
+<div class="container-fluid">
-*[[Dashboard Overview]]
+<div class="row">
+<div class="col-md-8">
+<div class="lead">
+Everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at wordpress.evergreen.edu
+</div>
-===Writing and Managing your content===
+{{Collapsed2|Getting Started|
-*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
+:* [[Getting Started with WordPress|About WordPress]]
-*[[Categories and Tags]]
+:* [[WordPress at Evergreen]]
+}}
-===Images and linked files===
+{{Collapsed2|Creating a Site|
-*[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]
+:* [[Create New Site - First Time in WordPress|Creating a site (for first time users)]]
-*[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
+:* [[Create Additional Sites - WordPress|Creating additional sites (for return users)]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Navigating WordPress|
-===Designing Your Site===
+:* [[Dashboard Overview|Dashboard or Admin Bar for editing your site]]
+:* [[Customize Your Screen Options - WordPress|Customize your Screen Options]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Configure Site Settings|
+:* [[General Settings - WordPress|Change the Title, Subtitle and time zone in General Settings]]
+:* [[Privacy Settings - WordPress|Site Privacy - control who has access to view your site]]
+:* [[Change Your Display Name - WordPress|Change your Display Name]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Writing and Managing Your Content|
+:* [https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ Posts and Pages and what’s the difference?]
+:* [[Create a New Post - WordPress|Creating a New Post]]
+:* [[Create a New Page - WordPress|Creating a New Page]]
+:* [[Categories and Tags|Categorizing Posts]]
+:* [[Comments - WordPress|Controlling comments]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Adding Images and Media|
+:* [[Images in Wordpress|Upload and insert an image into a post or page]]
+:* [[Image Settings - WordPress|Image details and display settings - size, alignment, caption]]
+:* [[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image galleries]]
+:* [[Media Embeds from External Sites - WordPress|Embed Media from external sites (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SoundCloud, etc.)]]
+:* [[Embed Audio - WordPress|Upload a short MP3 audio file and embed with a player]]
+:* [[File Sizes - WordPress|About file storage space]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|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]]
+* '''[[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)
+*'''[[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.
+Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't add 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
-*[[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 your latest posts.
+*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead your latest posts.
-*[[Custom Menus]] - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
+*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Adding Functionality to Your Site|
+:*Use [[Plugin Overview|plugins]] to enable new features in your site.
+:*[[Popular WordPress plugins at Evergreen]]
+}}
+{{Collapsed2|Moving Your Site|
+If at any point you want to move your WordPress site off of "wordpress.evergreen.edu" for your own personal use, simply set up your own domain and web-host, export your WordPress site, and Import it onto your private hosting.
+:*[[Creating a personal domain]]
+:*[[Exporting and importing your site]]
+}}
-===Adding functionality to your site===
+<!-- end col-md-8 -->
-*[[Plugin Overview]]
+</div>
-====Embedding media====
+<div class="col-md-1"></div>
-*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Add Video]]
+<div class="col-md-3 sidebar">
-*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Embed audio files]]
+{{WordPress Tutorial Header}}
+{{WordPress Help Sidebar}}
+<!-- end col-md-3-->
- [[category:Wordpress Tutorial]]
+</div>
- [[category:Wordpress]]
+<!-- end row-->
+</div>
+<!-- end container-->
+</div>
+<!-- Generator=Template:TwoColumn -->
+__NOTOC__
+__NOEDITSECTION__
+[[category:Wordpress]]