Difference between revisions of "Landscapes of Change Winter Q - WordPress"

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WordPress is a web publishing platform and is available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu

You Assignment

Create an individual WordPress site at blogs.evergreen.edu

Create a New WordPress Site

• Login at blogs.evergreen.edu
• Learn how to create your site

Writing and Managing your content

• Get Published - Pages and Posts
• Categories and Tags

Images and linked files

• Insert an image
• Link to a file
• Featured Image - Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear in the global map balloons.

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 - make sure to use the "feature filter" and choose a theme that supports custom menus
• 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 anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

• Add external links to your sidebar
• Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar

Navigation

Custom Menus - allow you to modify the navigation for your site.

• Create a custom menu that allows navigation to key category pages
• Create a menu link to go to your global map page

Adding functionality to your site

• Plugin Overview

Embedding media

• Image Galleries
• Video
• Audio