Terroir Spring Field Study - WordPress
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Access your site
Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:
- login to blogs.evergreen.edu
- navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login
Writing and Managing your content
- Get Published - Pages and Posts
- Categories and Tags - all of your posts should be added to a category otherwise they will not be easy to find on your site.
- Working with tables in your post
- If you're working on your individual Terroir Journal site, you will need to activate the plugin TinyMCE before you will see the add table option.
Images, video and linked files
- Insert an image
- Set a featured image for each post.
- WordPress built-in image galleries
- Instagram Galleries of group hashtags are located in two place:
- Sidebar Instagram gallery is located in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets in the Home Page Sidebar 2 block
- Instagram Gallery page uses shortcodes
[easy-instagram tag='yourhashhere' ...]
- Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
- Link to a file
- Audio
Customize Your Site
From the Admin Bar choose Customize
Customize your header image
- Add your own header image or logo via the Customize > Header Image
- Pay attention to the suggested image dimensions - make sure your image is at least as wide as the suggested dimensions.
Tip: if you want a larger logo in your header
Our theme wants to set your logo to 480x60 pixels, if you want a larger logo area do the following:
- Make sure your image is landscape oriented
- In a photo editing tool like Photoshop, resize your image to have a width of 480 pixels (don't worry about the height) and save for web as web image file format (.gif, .jpg or .png)
- From the Customize menu add your header
- When asked to Crop choose Skip Cropping (note: if you don't see the "Skip Cropping" button it means your image was not properly cropped to 480px before uploading)
Sidebars (Widgets)
Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". 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
- Update the Instagram Gallery to display your group's Instagram Feed. See Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin
