WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu

Everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu

Getting Started

• About WordPress
• WordPress at Evergreen

Creating a Site

• Creating a site (for first time users)
• Creating additional sites (for return users)

Navigating WordPress

• Dashboard or Admin Bar for editing your site
• Customize your Screen Options

Configure Site Settings

• Change the Title, Subtitle and time zone in General Settings
• Site Privacy - control who has access to view your site
• Change your Display Name

Writing and Managing Your Content

• Posts and Pages and what’s the difference?
• Creating a New Post
• Creating a New Page
• Categorizing Posts
• Controlling comments

Adding Images and Media

• Upload and insert an image into a post or page
• Image details and display settings - size, alignment, caption
• Image galleries
• Embed Media from external sites (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SoundCloud, etc.)
• Upload a short MP3 audio file and embed with a player
• About file storage space

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 (advanced)

Sidebars

Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't add 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 your latest posts.
• Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site

Adding Functionality to Your Site

• Use plugins to enable new features in your site.
• Popular WordPress plugins at Evergreen

Moving Your Site

If at any point you want to move your WordPress site off of "blogs.evergreen.edu" for your own personal use, simply set up your own domain and web-host, export your WordPress site, and Import it onto your private hosting.

• Creating a personal domain
• Exporting and importing your site