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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

wordpress.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
  • Your site comes with 3 pages: Intro, Journal, and Outro
  • The Journal page is where your posts will display
• Categories and Tags
  • Categories can be used for organizing posts
  • Let's create a category or two

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 website 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)

Front Page and Navigation

• Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer your latest posts to display instead of a static page (optional).
• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site.
  • Not all themes support custom menus

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