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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.

• Are you a new user? Create your first site!
• Already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu? Learn how to create additional sites.

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview

Privacy Settings

Change your privacy settings

Writing and Managing your content

Get Published - Pages and Posts

• • Create a page called "Welcome" or "About" to feature a description of and/or mission statement for your audio work/practice as a sound artist.
  • Create a post describing a project or goal you are working on.

Categories and Tags

• • A few categories have been created for you at your templated site. Categories can be used for organizing posts.
  • What are some other categories you might like?

Images and linked files

• Insert an image
• Link to a file

Embedding media

• Image Galleries
• Video
• Audio

Designing Your Site

Working with themes

Themes allow you to change the design/look of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site. It may seem as though some content has disappeared, but you just need to tell the new theme where the content should go.

• 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. A theme's sidebar may default to a particular set of "widgets." 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 page 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.