Visualizing Microbial Seascapes - WordPress
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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
- From the Admin bar at the top click +New > Post to create a new post
- Title your post
- 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
- Add links to internal or external pages
- Click the Toolbar Toggle icon
to expand a second row of editing tools - Use the Special Characters
button to insert Greek letters if needed - Use the More button to set the excerpt text that is displayed on the category page
Categorize your post
- Categorize your post as either Phytoplankton or Zooplankton. See the Category panel to the right when editing your post.
Images, video and linked files
- Insert an image and add a caption.
- Inserting Animated GIFs into your post is the same as adding an image - just make sure you choose Full Size
- Set the featured image for your post
- If your featured image is is landscape (or square) oriented (width greater than height). If not, you can choose to "Edit Image" and choose to rotate and/or crop when you're adding the image to your image library to get the image in a landscape orientation.
- Image Galleries allow you to create a thumbnail grid of multiple images
- 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:
- Go to your Edit my profile in the upper right of the Admin Bar under Howdy
- Add a nickname if you want to use something not already listed
- Choose your Display Name from the drop down list
- Click Update Profile at the bottom of the page
