Cities - Intro to WordPress

Workshop Dates: October 11th and 28th

Cities: Real and Imagined

Wordpress part 1

technical overview of the project

creating groups WordPress sites

• Addding audio, images, slideshows and/or video to WordPress
• WP or YouTube to GoogleEarth
• geotagging YouTube videos

WordPress part 1

1. create group blogs
   • one person creates site
   • everyone else creates a WordPress blogs.evergreen.eduaccount (if you don't already have one)
   • Add authors to the group site
2. working with text

WordPress part 2

1. Customize the look of your site: Appearance > Themes
2. images and image galleries (nextgen image galleries)
3. uploading audio (MP3)
4. Embedding video

Google earth

1. Creating custom placemarks
   • add custom icon for your placemarks
2. Embed an iframe to your WordPress post in the description of your placemark
3. Create a subfolder for your group's placemarks
4. Export your placemarks
   • Right click on your placemark's folder
   • Choose Save place as
   • Set the format to .kml
   • Save your kml file to your program space on Orca

Accessing Orca program file space

see: File Space Overview