Difference between revisions of "Intro to Audio - WordPress"

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Why a Wordpress site?

• What is WordPress.
• How is blogs.evergreen.edu different from wordpress.com

Examples:

Create a portfolio and take it with you after you graduate

• http://www.jasonaudio.com/
• http://zacharyquarles.com/blog/
• http://blogs.evergreen.edu/substance/
• http://blogs.evergreen.edu/scasam24/

What is an online portfolio?

• Brainstorm session: what might your sites include?
• How are you going to use this site for your academic work?

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

Settings

• General - change your tagline; change your time zone to Los Angeles
• Reading - change your site's privacy settings (defaults to Evergreen users only)
• Permalinks - set this to Post Name

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Images, video and linked files

• Insert an image
• Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
• Link to a file

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 - make sure to choose a theme that:
  • is easy for readers to find your categorized posts (a theme that supports custom menus is good way to accomplish this)
• 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. 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
• Add external links to your sidebar

Front Page and Navigation

• Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer a static pages 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.

Embedding additional media

• Image Galleries
• Audio
• Adding sound files using soundcloud

Things to know about your blog

• What happens to my blog when I graduate?