Difference between revisions of "SOS: FoodAg - WordPress"

Latest revision as of 11:58, 9 January 2018

Access your site

Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:

login to blogs.evergreen.edu
navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login

Site Visibility

Your sites are currently set to require and Evergreen login to view.

To change this go to Settings > Reading > Visibility
You have the option to make your the site publicly viewable by choosing "Allow Search Engines..." or "Discourage Search Engines ..."

Display Name

How your Author display name can be changed sitewide.

Go to Edit Profile from the "Howdy, your name" drop down in the upper left admin bar
Change the "Display name publicly as" field to your choice. First name last initial is a good option.

Writing and Managing your content

Get Published - Pages and Posts
Categories and Tags - Every post you write should be added to a category otherwise they will not be easy to find on your site.
Custom Menus - let you modify your site's navigation and add links to new pages or post categories or create sub-navigation.

Images, video and linked files

Insert an image
Set a featured image for each post.
WordPress built-in image galleries
You can display Instagram Image Galleries as well. See: Setting up the Feed Instagram Pro plugin.
Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
Link to a file
Audio

Bibliography with Zotero

We will be using Zotero in combination with the WordPress plugin ZotPress to connect your WordPress sites to your Zotero account and dynamically display bibliographic collections. You will need to:

Create a Zotero account (if you haven't already) at www.zotero.org
Add a few citations using the Firefox extension (should be installed in the lab)
Organize your citations into folders or "Collections"
Follow the ZotPress instructions for connecting your WordPress site to your Zotero account to display a collection on your site's Bibliography page

Customize Your Site

Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". 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

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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 ===Site Visibility===
-Your sites are currently set to be publicly viewable.
+Your sites are currently set to require and Evergreen login to view.
 # To change this go to '''Settings > Reading > Visibility'''
-# You have the option to choose '''Visitors must have login''' to limit access to Evergreen community members or can leave the sites publicly viewable.
+# You have the option to make your the site publicly viewable by choosing "Allow Search Engines..." or "Discourage Search Engines ..."
 ===Display Name===
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 ===Customize Your Site===
-====Recommend Themes====
-=====TwentyFifteen=====
-This is default theme your site is already set to use. This theme has a flexible Theme Customization panel located in '''Dashboard > Appearance > Customize''', that lets you customize a few components.
-=====Additional themes=====
-If you feel compelled to use a different theme, the following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.
-* Baskerville (custom header image)
-* Editor
-* Hemingway (custom header image)
-* Ignite
-* Padhang
-* Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts)
-* Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Sixteen
-Additional themes may not have '''Theme Options''' but can be modified by '''Appearance > Customize'''
 ====Sidebars (Widgets)====
 Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". 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.
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-{{Additional WordPress Reasources}}
 {{WordPress Help}}