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===Designing Your Site===
 
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Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.
 
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]]''' - make sure to use the "feature filter" and '''choose a theme that supports custom menus'''
 
* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|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)
 
* 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)
 
*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
 
 
 
  
 
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Revision as of 16:47, 7 January 2013

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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

Writing and Managing your content

Images and linked files

Designing Your Site

Working with themes

Manage-themes.png

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)

Sidebar "Widgets"

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Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't set anything to your sidebar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

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

Embedding media


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