WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu

Everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu.

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 instance primarily for community members looking to self-create a wordpres site/blog/academic journal. To create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login. Faculty looking to create a curricular site using WordPress should use sites.evergreen.edu.

• 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

Site Settings

• General Settings - Change the title and subtitle of your site
• Change the default Privacy Settings. All newly created blogs are set to private (requiring login to view), change this under Settings > Reading.

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

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 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 your latest posts.
• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site

Adding functionality to your site

• Use plugins to enable new features in your site.

Embedding media

• Image Galleries
• Video
• Audio

Still have WordPress questions?

• Create a Help Ticket or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227
• WordPress FAQ - common questions
• WordPress Tutorial - step by step introduction