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Access your site

Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:

  1. login to blogs.evergreen.edu
  2. navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login

Site Visibility

Your sites are currently set to be publicly viewable.

  1. To change this go to Settings > Reading > Visibility
  2. In order for your posts to aggregate to the main program site, your site needs to be publicly viewable. To protect specific posts use the Make Private feature for the post by Editing the Visibility

Display Name

How your Author display name can be changed sitewide.

  1. Go to Edit Profile from the "Howdy, your name" drop down in the upper left admin bar
  2. Change the "Display name publicly as" field to your choice. First name last initial is a good option.

Writing and Managing your content

Images, video and linked files


Customize Your Site

Recommend Themes

TwentyFifteen

This is default theme your site is already set to use. This theme has a flexible Theme Customization panel located in Dashboard > Appearance > Customize, that lets you customize a few components.

Additional themes

If you feel compelled to use a different theme, the following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.

  • Baskerville (custom header image)
  • Editor
  • Hemingway (custom header image)
  • Ignite
  • Padhang
  • Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts)
  • Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Sixteen


Additional themes may not have Theme Options but can be modified by Appearance > Customize

Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". Often times if you don't anything to your sidebar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

  • Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar


Additional WordPress Resources

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