WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu
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Everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
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Getting Started
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Configure Site Settings
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Writing and Managing Your Content
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Adding Images and Media
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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 add 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 if you'd prefer a static pages instead your latest posts.
- Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
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Adding functionality to your site
- Use plugins to enable new features in your site.
- Popular WordPress plugins at Evergreen
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Moving your site
If at any point you want to move your WordPress site off of "blogs.evergreen.edu" for your own personal use, simply set up your own domain and web-host, and export your WordPress site and Import it on your private domain.