Difference between revisions of "In Search of Lost Time - WordPress Portfolios"

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What Is an Online Portfolio?

How are you going to use this site for your portfolio of writing and studies for In Search of Lost Time?
The portfolio consists of:
- one static page for an introduction to your site
- a category for each of the assignments you'll be working on

Getting Started

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

Access Your WordPress Site

Your sites have already been created with a template designed to match the categories at the main site for In Search of Lost Time.

Navigate to your site at: blogs.evergreen.edu/losttimeyourfirstname
You can also just go to http://blogs.evergreen.edu and click the Login button. Use the Admin bar to navigate to My Sites

Driving in WordPress

Dashboard Overview

Settings

Settings > General - change your site's title and tagline
Settings > Reading - your site's visibility is set to be public so it may be aggregated to the In Search of Lost Time site

Writing and Managing Your Content

Get Published - Pages and Posts - each template has one page and several categories for organizing your posts
Categories - only applicable to Posts

Sidebars

Sidebars or "Widgets" in WordPress lingo allow for additional content and navigation and are supported by many themes. Often times if you don't change anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own in Appearance > Widgets.

Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar

Images and Video

Insert an image - using the Add Media button, set the size and alignment and insert into page
Image Galleries - add multiple images in a grid layout
Video - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube

Linked Files

Link to a file - add files to your Media Library and Insert a Link into your Page
- Note that your site will automatically provide a list of linked documents in the sidebar of every page. This list will only show the documents linked to from that page.

Wrap Up

What happens to my site when I graduate?

Additional WordPress Resources

Built-in Help
- when you're logged into the Dashboard look in the upper right under "Howdy"
- Help is context aware so will show you help based on where you are in the WordPress Dashboard
- Built-in help videos (part of built-in help)
WordPress Tutorials
Lynda.com Video Tutorials

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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 ==What Is an Online Portfolio?==
 * How are you going to use this site for your portfolio of writing and studies for In Search of Lost Time?
-*The portfolio is to contain:
+*The portfolio consists of:
-**contain a table of contents and organized structure,
+**one static page for an introduction to your site
-**include appropriate documentation for each area, and
+**a category for each of the assignments you'll be working on
-**contain Reflective Essays about each area of documentation.
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 ====Settings====
 * '''Settings > General''' - change your site's '''title''' and '''tagline'''
-* '''Settings > Reading''' - your site's '''visibility''' is set to be public s it may be aggregated to the '''In Search of Lost Time''' site.
+* '''Settings > Reading''' - your site's '''visibility''' is set to be public so it may be aggregated to the '''In Search of Lost Time''' site
 ==Writing and Managing Your Content==
-*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]] - we're only going to be using Pages in the template but feel free to use Posts if you have a compelling reason to do so
+*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]] - each template has one page and several categories for organizing your posts
-*[[Categories and Tags]] - only applicable to Posts
+*[[Categories]] - only applicable to Posts
-====Linked Files====
+====Sidebars====
-*'''[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]''' - add files to your Media Library and Insert a Link into your Page
+Sidebars  or "Widgets" in WordPress lingo allow for additional content and navigation and are supported by many themes. Often times if you don't change anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own in '''Appearance > Widgets'''.
-**Note that your site will automatically provide a list of linked documents in the sidebar of every page. This list will only show the documents linked to from that page.
+*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
 ====Images and Video====
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 *[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Video]] - embed video from Vimeo or YouTube
-====Sidebars====
+====Linked Files====
-Sidebars  or "Widgets" in WordPress lingo allow for additional content and navigation and are supported by many themes. Often times if you don't change anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own in '''Appearance > Widgets'''.
+*'''[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]''' - add files to your Media Library and Insert a Link into your Page
-*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
+**Note that your site will automatically provide a list of linked documents in the sidebar of every page. This list will only show the documents linked to from that page.
-====Front Page and Navigation====
-*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' - '''Settings > Reading''' is where you can change the location of your front page, your is currently set to '''Overview'''.
-*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - '''Appearance > Menu''' allows you to modify the navigation for your site. Note that not all themes support custom menus. Try to choose a theme that does.
-==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.
-* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
-**Note: you will need to revisit your Menu and assign a location for your menu each time you change themes.
-* '''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 sure to use an image that is at least as wide as the recommended header image width for your theme. Most themes have a built-in cropping tool so you don't need to adust the image outside of WordPress.
-*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
-==Adding Functionality to 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.
 ==Wrap Up==