Landscapes of Change Winter Q - WordPress

WordPress is a web publishing platform and is available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu

You Assignment

Create an individual WordPress site at blogs.evergreen.edu

Create a New WordPress Site

• Login at blogs.evergreen.edu]
• Learn how to create additional sites if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Images and linked files

• Insert an image
• Link to a file

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 anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

• Add external links to your sidebar
• Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar

Navigation

• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site

Adding functionality to your site

• Plugin Overview

Embedding media

• Image Galleries
• Video
• Audio

Need More Help?

• WordPress Tutorial - for a step-by-step tutorial to get you started
• FAQs - common questions about using WordPress at Evergreen
• All WordPress articles

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