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Revision as of 16:03, 3 April 2013

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WordPress is a web publishing platform available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu
Queer Pleasure and Politics students will be contributing to a group site at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/qppmap/

Your Assignment

Getting Started


Driving in WordPress

  • Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
  • Change your profile info

Writing and Managing your content

Adding new posts

  • Title your post with your Location

Categories and Tags

Adding Media

  • Insert an image - add an image to the body a post
  • Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear in the global map balloons as well as at the top of each of your posts.
  • Working with image galleries

Working with GeoMashup Google Maps plugin

  • Set coordinates for each post using geo-mashup
  • Add the following short code to embed a map of your post's location

[geo_mashup_map]

Additional Resources

  • Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
  • Lynda.com (on-campus) WordPress 3 Essential Training - this is another training geared towards using Wordpress.com but if you skip the account setup portion most of the rest is relavent to blogs.evergreen.edu