MIT - WordPress Portfolios
From Help Wiki
What is an online portfolio?
- How are you going to use this site for your Advancement to Candidacy ePortfolio?
- The portfolio must:
- contain a table of contents and organized structure,
- include appropriate documentation for each area, and
- contain Reflective Essays about each area of documentation.
Getting Started
- Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
Access Your 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.
- Your sites have already been created with a templated scaffold designed to help you match the ePortfolio requirements to your site.
- Navigate to your site at: X
Driving in WordPress
Settings
- Settings > General - change your site's title and tagline
- Settings > Reading - your site's visibility or privacy settings (currently set to you and and your faculty)
Writing and Managing your content
- Get Published - Pages and Posts - we're only going to be using Pages in the template but feel free to use Posts if you have a compelling reason to do so
- Categories and Tags - only applicable to Posts
Linked Files
- Link to a file - add files to your Media Library and Insert a Link into your Page
- Note that your site will automatically provide a list of linked documents in the sidebar of every page. This list will only show the documents linked to from that page.
Images and Video
- Insert an image - using the Add Media button, set the size and alignment and insert into page
- Image Galleries - add multiple images in a grid layout
- Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
Sidebars
Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't change 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
- Change what your front page displays Go to Settings > Reading to change the location of your front page, your is currently set to Overview.
- Custom Menus - Appearance > Menu allows you to modify the navigation for your site. Note that not all themes support custom menus. Try to choose a theme that does.
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)
- Make sure to use an image that is at least as wide as the recommended header image width for your theme. Most themes have a built-in cropping tool so you don't need to adust the image outside of WordPress.
- Make additional changes to your theme (advanced)
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.
Need More Help?
- WordPress Tutorial - for a step-by-step tutorial to get you started
- FAQs - common questions about using WordPress at Evergreen
- All WordPress articles
Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.
