Field Mycology - WordPress

Your Assignment

You will generate content for a fungus post on the “Fungi Evergreen” website. The content will include text and images ...

Getting Started

Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
Login to the Fungi of Evergreen site

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
Change your profile info: Name and Bio

Adding a new fungus

See the Example fungus for details on what is to be included in each section of your fungus post

Create a new Fungus using the New button at the top of the Admin Bar or from the Dashboard > Fungi > Add New menu
Title your post - use the Latin species name for your fungus (for the workshop create a fictitious fungus with the title starting with "Fake")
- Note: the traditional post content area will actually display at the bottom of the page. This is where we're going to add image galleries instead.
Publish your Fungus and then View the post to see how it looks

Input fungus data

Beneath the top content area we will be putting the rest of our content into collapsible sections using WordPress Custom Fields

These custom fields have their own Save

Fungus Categories and Morphologies

Along the right hand side of your Fungus post, select the appropriate fungus category and morphology
A fungus may belong to more than one so check all that apply

Adding Links

While editing a post, highlight the text you want to be a link
Click the "add link" button
Paste the URL you want to link to and click "Add Link"

Adding Images

File management: we will all be sharing a single media library. Make sure to use a unique file naming convention. Start your files with your species and it will be easy to find all files related to your species.

Example: Amanita_muscaria1.jpg

Insert an image - add an image to the body of a post
Adding captions to cite your image sources
- Creative Commons images from WikiMedia Commons is a great place to start. Once you find an image you'd like to use click the "Use this file on the web" link. Copy the "Attribution" (HTML) text and paste into your image's caption.
Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear on the at the top of each post and on category pages.

Additional Resources

Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
Lynda.com (on-campus) WordPress 3 Essential Training - this is another training geared towards using Wordpress.com but if you skip the account setup portion most of the rest is relavent to blogs.evergreen.edu