Digital Photography - WordPress

Getting Started

• Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?

Create a New WordPress Site

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login.

• Create your first site if you are new to blogs.evergreen.edu.
• Learn how to create additional sites if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.
• Having problems creating a site?

Driving in WordPress

• Dashboard Overview

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Images, video and linked files

• Insert an image
• Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
• 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 by editing the CSS (advanced)

Portfolio Themes

• Attache
• Blocco
• Hatch - hatch theme documentation
• Hoon
• Folio Elements
• Touchfolio
• Viewed

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.

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

Front Page and Navigation

• Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
  • not all themes support custom menus

Adding functionality to your site

• Plugin Overview - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

Embedding additional media

• Image Galleries
  • Enable SlimJetpack > Carousel for more control over your image galleries
• Audio

Some Quick Tips

• Design your splash or welcoming page in a way that immediately lets the viewer know what type of photography you specialize in

• Keep navigation clear and simple

• Display your strongest images, even if that means only using a few until you build your portfolio

• Use images that will draw a visitor into different parts of the website

Sites by Evergreen Alumni

WORDPRESS

• Meet The Shannons (Annie Shannon) - Writer/Foodie/Vegan Advocate

• Hamburger Eyes - Photographers/Publishers: photo zines, artist monographs, limited editions, etc

• Ira Coyne - Sign Painter

• Kathleen Hanna - Artist/Musician/Writer

• The Sherwood Press

SQUARESPACE

• Psychic Sister (Sarah Adams) - Artist/Entrepreneur (Vintage, Repurposed and Original Clothing, Psychic Readings, and More)

TUMBLR

• Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Musicians

• Ray Potes of Hamburger Eyes

OTHER SERVICES

• Carli Davidson - Photographer (Site made with PhotoShelter)

• Nikki McClure - Papercut and more

• Rodrigo Valenzuela - Artist/Photographer

• Sarah Utter - Painter/Musician (Site made with iWeb)

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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