Queer Pleasure & Politics - WordPress
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Queer Pleasure and Politics students will be contributing to a private 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
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]
Adding Media
Set your featured image - featured images will appear in the global map balloons as well as at the top of each of your posts. You can resize and crop these images within WordPress.
- Click the "Set featured image" link
- Select files from your hard drive or drag and drop
- Click the "Edit image" button to resize and crop your image to the necessary size to fit in the balloons and at the top of your post 250px x 100px.
- Click Scale image and set the width to 250
- In image crop set the selection to 250 x 100 - move the cropped selection (if neccessary) and click the crop icon to apply
- Click the Save button under the image
- Scroll to bottom and choose "Use as featured image" and close out of the image editing window
- Insert an image - add an image to the body a post (these images will not appear in the balloon on global map).
- Working with image galleries - have a lot of images? Try using a NextGen image gallery to organize theme.
Categories and Tags
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
