Difference between revisions of "GCORE - WordPress"

Revision as of 13:42, 29 September 2011

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.

• Create your first site if you are new to blogs.evergreen.edu.
• Learn how to create additional sites if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.

Driving in WordPress

• Dashboard Overview
• Change your Site's subtitle or Tagline Settings > General
• Change the default Discussion settings Settings > Discussion

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
  • Create your "Home" page - explore the text editor and add some filler content
  • Create your "news" page (optional)
• Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer a static pages instead your latest posts.
• Categories and Tags - only if you're working with Posts on a News page

Images and linked files

• Insert an image
• Link to a file
  • Create your "Research Page"
  • Upload and link to a file

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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)

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.

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

Navigation

• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site (optional)

Adding functionality to your site

• Plugin Overview

Embedding media

• Add Video
• Embed audio files