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===Writing and Managing your content===
 
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Revision as of 17:00, 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

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Writing and Managing your content


Images and linked files



Designing Your Site

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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)



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Sidebar "Widgets"

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.




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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



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Adding functionality to your site


Embedding media


Need More Help?



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