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===What is an online portfolio?===
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* How are you going to use this site for your Advancement to Candidacy ePortfolio?
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===Getting Started===
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*'''[[Getting Started with WordPress]]''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
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===Access Your WordPress Site===
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[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]].
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* '''Your sites have already been created''' with a templated scaffold designed to help you match the ePortfolio requirements to your site.
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* Navigate to your site at: X
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===Driving in WordPress===
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*[[Dashboard Overview]]
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====Settings====
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* '''General''' - change your tagline
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* '''Reading''' - your site's privacy settings (currently set to you and and your faculty)
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===Writing and Managing your content===
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*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]] - we're only going to be using Pages in the template but feel free to use Posts if you have a compelling reason to do so
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*[[Categories and Tags]] - only applicable to Posts
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===Linked Files===
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*[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
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===Images and Video===
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*[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]
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*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
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*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Video]] - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
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====Sidebars====
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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.
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*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
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*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
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====Front Page and Navigation====
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*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' Go to '''Settings > Reading''' to change the location of your front page, your is currently set to '''Overview'''.
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*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - '''Appearance > Menu''' allows you to modify the navigation for your site. Note that not all themes support custom menus. Try to choose a theme that does.
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===Designing Your Site===
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====Working with themes====
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Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.
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* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
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* 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)
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**Make sure to use an image that is at least as wide as the recommended header image width for your theme. Most themes have a built-in cropping tool so you don't need to adust the image outside of WordPress.
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*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
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===Adding functionality to your site===
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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.
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Revision as of 08:43, 16 October 2014

Blue-l.png

What is an online portfolio?

  • How are you going to use this site for your Advancement to Candidacy ePortfolio?

Getting Started

Access Your 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.

  • Your sites have already been created with a templated scaffold designed to help you match the ePortfolio requirements to your site.
  • Navigate to your site at: X

Driving in WordPress

Settings

  • General - change your tagline
  • Reading - your site's privacy settings (currently set to you and and your faculty)

Writing and Managing your content

Linked Files

Images and Video

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.

Front Page and Navigation

  • Change what your front page displays Go to Settings > Reading to change the location of your front page, your is currently set to Overview.
  • Custom Menus - Appearance > Menu allows you to modify the navigation for your site. Note that not all themes support custom menus. Try to choose a theme that does.

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 sure to use an image that is at least as wide as the recommended header image width for your theme. Most themes have a built-in cropping tool so you don't need to adust the image outside of WordPress.
  • Make additional changes to your theme (advanced)

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?


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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