Visualizing Microbial Seascapes - WordPress

Getting Started

• Access your site at https://sites.evergreen.edu/vms/ and login with your Evergreen login and password
• As Authors you have the ability to create and edit your own posts but not others
• Dashboard overview

Create a new Post

1. From the Admin bar at the top click +New > Post to create a new post
2. Title your post
3. Begin writing in the content area or copy and paste from another word processing tool

Markup your content

Use the text editing toolbar to style or markup your text

1. Add links to internal or external pages
2. Click the Toolbar Toggle icon to expand a second row of editing tools
3. Use the Special Characters button to insert Greek letters if needed

Categorize your post

• Categories and Tags

Images, video and linked files

• Insert an image and add a caption
• Set the featured image for your post
• Image Galleries
• Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the URL link into the content area of your page/post
• Link to a file

Change your profile's display name

Your chosen display name will be published with your post. To change what is displayed:

1. Go to your Edit my profile in the upper right of the Admin Bar under Howdy
2. Add a nickname if you want to use something not already listed
3. Choose your Display Name from the drop down list
4. Click Update Profile at the bottom of the page