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===Designing Your Site===
 
===Designing Your Site===
====Working with themes====
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====Front Page and Navigation====
Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at anytime. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.
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*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
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*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
* 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)
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*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
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====Sidebars====
 
====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.
 
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.
 
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
 
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
 
*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
 
*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
 
====Front Page and Navigation====
 
*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
 
*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
 
 
** not all themes support custom menus
 
** not all themes support custom menus
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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.
 +
* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|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)
 +
*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
  
 
===Adding functionality to your site===
 
===Adding functionality to your site===

Latest revision as of 12:36, 9 October 2015

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What is an online professional portfolio?


Driving in WordPress

Settings

  • General - change your tagline; change your time zone to Los Angeles
  • Reading - change your site's privacy settings (defaults to Evergreen users only)
  • Permalinks - set this to Post Name

Writing and Managing your content

Images, video and linked files

Designing Your Site

Front Page and Navigation

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.

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.

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.