Environmental Health - WordPress + GeoMashup

Getting Started

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

Driving in WordPress

• Dashboard Overview

Change your display name

You can control how your name appears next to your writings. Remember, these sites will be public so use a name you feel comfortable with being in the public sphere, such as first name and last initial.

• To change your display name, click on Howdy, [your display name] in the upper right corner.
• Click on Edit My Profile
• Enter desired display name in the Nickname (required) field.
• Select and set desired display name using the Display name publicly as drop-down box. Note: this will change all references in your site, even for posts that were already published.

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Sections required for your site:

Pages

• "Map": global map that uses the GeoMashup plugin to display your geo-located posts
• Additional pages, such as Welcome or About, to be determined by faculty and students.

Posts

(To be determined by faculty and students - may include:)

• Journal entries that use the location as an organizing principle for each entry including:
  • geo-mapping using the GeoMashup Google Maps plugin
  • critical and casual reflections about your travels: surprises, museum visits, concerts, encounters, etc
  • other information relevant to your spring work

Images, video and linked files

• Insert an image
• Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
• Link to a file
• Image Galleries
• Audio

Geolocate Posts

Once the GeoMashup plugin is activated a Google Map will appear at the bottom of each post you are editing.

• You can drop a placemark to locate your post. Tip: single click the map to insert a placemark.
• For places you will be posting form frequently, consider Saving the Location.

Embed a Map

• Use the shortcode [geo_mashup_map] to embed the global map on the page you setup to be your global map
• Use the same shortcode [geo_mashup_map] to embed single maps on your geolocated posts
• Optional: On your Global maps page use the shortcode [geo_mashup_category_legend] to add a category legend to filter map placemarks by post category

Additional WordPress Resources

• Built-in Help
  • when you're logged into the Dashboard look in the upper right under "Howdy"
  • Help is context aware so will show you help based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
  • Built-in help videos (part of built-in help)
• WordPress Tutorials
• Lynda.com Video Tutorials

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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Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.