MIT - WordPress Portfolios

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What is an online portfolio?

  • How are you going to use this site for your Advancement to Candidacy ePortfolio?
  • The portfolio must:
    • contain a table of contents and organized structure,
    • include appropriate documentation for each area, and
    • contain Reflective Essays about each area of documentation.


Getting Started

Access Your 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.

  • Your sites have already been created with a templated scaffold designed to help you match the ePortfolio requirements to your site.
  • Navigate to your site at: X

Driving in WordPress

Settings

  • General - change your site's title and tagline
  • Reading - your site's privacy settings (currently set to you and and your faculty)

Writing and Managing your content

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.

Images and Video

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.

Front Page and Navigation

  • Change what your front page displays Go to Settings > Reading to 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.

  • 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 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.
  • 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.


Need More Help?



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