Gardens as Creative Non-Fiction - WordPress

Getting Started

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

Working with the Longhouse Ethnobotanical Garden site

Logging in from the sites.evergreen.edu homepage

Navigate to https://sites.evergreen.edu and click the login/register link in the sidebar
Login via CAS using your Evergreen username and password
Navigate to your site via the My Sites menu in the upper left admin bar

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview

Writing and Managing your content

Built-in Help

Contextual help is always available from the upper right Help tab in your Dashboard. This is likely the fastest way to get your questions answered.

Adding a new post

From the Posts left-hand menu choose Add New
Enter the post title (directly under Edit Page)
Click Publish to save your changes (once you've "published" a post, the save button will show as "Update")

Editing a post

Navigate to the page you want to update
Click the Edit Post link in the admin topbar
Make your changes and click Update to save

Adding media to a post

You can upload and insert media (images, audio, documents, etc.) by clicking the Add Media button when editing a post.
You can select from the images and files already uploaded to the Media Library, or upload new media to add to your post.
To create an image gallery, select the images to add and click the “Create a new gallery” button.

Images and linked files

Insert an image
Link to a file

Embedding media from other sites

You can also embed media from many popular websites including Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and others by pasting the media URL on its own line into the content of your post.

Add media directly to the Media Library

In the Dashboard's left sidebar menu, click on Media
- you can drag-and-drop files right into the Library page
- or click on Add New

Link a Plant Profile post to placeholder text on The Plants page

Open The Plants page in one browser tab and open the All Posts page in another tab

At the All Posts page, click on View for a post and copy the URL in the address bar

Go to The Plants page:

highlight the placeholder text
click on the Insert/Edit LInk
paste in the URL, click the blue Apply button
then click Update to save the page

Create your own WordPress at "blogs" to practice with

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress instance primarily for community members looking to self-create a WordPress site/blog/academic journal. To create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login. Faculty looking to create a curricular site using WordPress should use sites.evergreen.edu.

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.