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===Customize Your Site===
 
===Customize Your Site===
From the Admin Bar choose '''Customize'''
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====Recommend Themes====
====Customize your header image====
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=====Hueman=====
* Add your own header image or logo via the '''Customize > Header Image'''
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This is default themeyour site is already set to use. This theme has a flexible Theme Options panel that let's you customize many components of the site including:
* Pay attention to the suggested image dimensions - make sure your image is at least as wide as the suggested dimensions.
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* page layout
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* styling: background colors, font, etc.
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* header logo
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=====Additional themes=====
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The following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.
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* Baskerville (custom header image)
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* Editor
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* Hemingway (custom header image)
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* Ignite
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* Padhang
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* Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts
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Additional themes may not have '''Theme Options''' but can be modified by '''Appearance > Customize'''
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====Tip: if you want a larger logo in your header====
 
Our theme wants to set your logo to 480x60 pixels, if you want a larger logo area do the following:
 
# Make sure your image is landscape oriented
 
# In a photo editing tool like Photoshop, resize your image to have a width of 480 pixels (don't worry about the height) and save for web as web image file format (.gif, .jpg or .png)
 
# From the Customize menu add your header
 
# When asked to Crop choose '''Skip Cropping''' (note: if you don't see the "Skip Cropping" button it means your image was not properly cropped to 480px before uploading)
 
  
 
====Sidebars (Widgets)====
 
====Sidebars (Widgets)====

Revision as of 14:40, 20 April 2016

Access your site

Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:

  1. login to blogs.evergreen.edu
  2. navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login

Writing and Managing your content

  • Get Published - Pages and Posts
  • Categories and Tags - all of your posts should be added to a category otherwise they will not be easy to find on your site.
  • Working with tables in your post
    • If you're working on your individual Terroir Journal site, you will need to activate the plugin TinyMCE before you will see the add table option.

Images, video and linked files

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  • Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
  • Link to a file
  • Audio

Customize Your Site

Recommend Themes

Hueman

This is default themeyour site is already set to use. This theme has a flexible Theme Options panel that let's you customize many components of the site including:

  • page layout
  • styling: background colors, font, etc.
  • header logo


Additional themes

The following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.

  • Baskerville (custom header image)
  • Editor
  • Hemingway (custom header image)
  • Ignite
  • Padhang
  • Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts

Additional themes may not have Theme Options but can be modified by Appearance > Customize




Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". 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.