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

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• Getting Started with WordPress

Create a New WordPress Site

• Create New Site - First Time in WordPress
• Create Additional Sites - WordPress

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Images and linked files

• Insert an image
• Link to a file

Designing Your Site

Working with themes

• 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

• Add external links to your sidebar
• Widgets - add additional features 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

• Plugin Overview

Embedding media

• Add Video
• Embed audio files