Difference between revisions of "SOS: FoodAg - WordPress"
From Help Wiki
m |
m |
||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
===Site Visibility=== | ===Site Visibility=== | ||
| − | Your sites are currently set to | + | Your sites are currently set to require and Evergreen login to view. |
# To change this go to '''Settings > Reading > Visibility''' | # To change this go to '''Settings > Reading > Visibility''' | ||
| − | # You have the option to | + | # You have the option to make your the site publicly viewable by choosing "Allow Search Engines..." or "Discourage Search Engines ..." |
===Display Name=== | ===Display Name=== | ||
| Line 43: | Line 43: | ||
| − | |||
{{WordPress Help}} | {{WordPress Help}} | ||
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.
