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What is an online portfolio?

How are you going to use this site for your academic work?

Getting Started

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

Create a New WordPress Site

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login.

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.

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview

Settings

General - change your tagline; change your time zone to UTC -7
Reading - change your site's privacy settings (defaults to Evergreen users only)
Permalinks - set this to Post Name

Writing and Managing your content

Get Published - Pages and Posts
Categories and Tags
- create a category for your Participant-Observation posts

Images, video and linked files

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

Sidebars

Many themes support sidebar content. 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
Add external links to your sidebar

Front Page and Navigation

Change what your front page displays if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
- not all themes support custom menus

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)

Adding functionality to your site with plugins

Plugin Overview - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Want to connect to a popular service that you don't see listed in the available plugins? Let Academic Computing know and we can look into adding it.
- Tip: Plugins can make your site run slower. Only activate those plugins you are planning on using and deactivate any plugins you're not using.

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

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

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 * How are you going to use this site for your academic work?
-===Getting Started===
+==Getting Started==
 *'''[[Getting Started with WordPress]]''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
 ===Create a New WordPress Site===
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 * '''Permalinks''' - set this to Post Name
-===Writing and Managing your content===
+==Writing and Managing your content==
 *[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
 *[[Categories and Tags]]
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 *[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Video]] - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
 *[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
+*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
+*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
-===Designing Your Site===
+===Sidebars===
-====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.
-* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|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)
-*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
-====Sidebars====
 Many themes support sidebar content. 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
 *'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
-====Front Page and Navigation====
+===Front Page and Navigation===
 *'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
 *'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
 ** not all themes support custom menus
-===Adding functionality to your site===
+==Designing Your Site==
-*[[Plugin Overview]] - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Want to connect to a popular service that you don't see listed in the available plugins? Let Academic Computing know and we can look into adding it.
+===Working with themes===
-====Embedding additional media====
+Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.
-*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
+* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
-*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
+* 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)
+*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
+===Adding functionality to your site with plugins===
+*[[Plugin Overview]] - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Want to connect to a popular service that you don't see listed in the available plugins? Let Academic Computing know and we can look into adding it.
+**'''Tip:''' Plugins can make your site run slower. Only activate those plugins you are planning on using and deactivate any plugins you're not using.
 {{WordPress Help}}