Queer Pleasure & Politics - WordPress
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Queer Pleasure and Politics students will be contributing to a group site at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/qppmap/
Your Assignment
Getting Started
- Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
- Login to the Landscapes of Change Dry Falls site
Driving in WordPress
- Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
- Change your profile info
Writing and Managing your content
Adding new posts
- Title your post with your Location
Categories and Tags
Adding Media
- Insert an image - add an image to the body a post
- Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear in the global map balloons as well as at the top of each of your posts.
- Working with image galleries
Working with GeoMashup Google Maps plugin
- Set coordinates for each post using geo-mashup
- Add the following short code to embed a map of your post's location
[geo_mashup_map]
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
