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# login to blogs.evergreen.edu
 
# login to blogs.evergreen.edu
 
# navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login
 
# navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login
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===Site Visibility===
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Your sites are currently set to be publicly viewable.
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# To change this go to '''Settings > Reading > Visibility'''
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# You have the option to choose '''Visitors must have login''' to limit access to Evergreen community members or can leave the sites publicly viewable.
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===Display Name===
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How your Author display name can be changed sitewide.
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# Go to '''Edit Profile''' from the "Howdy, your name" drop down in the upper left admin bar
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# Change the "Display name publicly as" field to your choice. First name last initial is a good option.
  
 
===Writing and Managing your content===
 
===Writing and Managing your content===
 
*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
 
*[[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.
 
*[[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
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*[[Custom Menus]] - let you modify your site's navigation and add links to new pages or post categories or create sub-navigation.
** 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.
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===Images, video and linked files===
 
===Images, video and linked files===
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* Set a '''[[Featured Images in WordPress|featured image]]''' for each post.
 
* Set a '''[[Featured Images in WordPress|featured image]]''' for each post.
 
*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|WordPress built-in image galleries]]
 
*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|WordPress built-in image galleries]]
* Instagram Galleries of group hashtags are located in two place:
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*[[Instagram - WordPress|Instagram Galleries of group hashtags or user IDs]]
** Sidebar Instagram gallery is located in '''Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets''' in the Home Page Sidebar 2 block
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** [[Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin|Instagram Gallery page uses shortcodes]]
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<nowiki>[easy-instagram tag='yourhashhere' ...]</nowiki>
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*Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
 
*Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
 
*[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
 
*[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]
 
*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
 
*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
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===Connect to Zotero===
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Connect your site using the ZotPress plugin to your individual Zotero account to create a dynamic display of a collection of bibliographic resources.
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* See: [[Zotero and WordPress]]
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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 theme your 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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If you feel compelled to use a different theme than Heuman, 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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* Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen
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====Tip: if you want a larger logo in your header====
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Additional themes may not have '''Theme Options''' but can be modified by '''Appearance > Customize'''
Our theme wants to set your logo to 480x60 pixels, if you want a larger logo area do the following:
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# Make sure your image is landscape oriented
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# 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)
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# From the Customize menu add your header
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# 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)
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====Sidebars (Widgets)====
 
====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.
 
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.
 
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
 
*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
*Update the Instagram Gallery to display your group's Instagram Feed. See [[Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin]]
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*Update the Instagram Gallery to display your Instagram hashed feed. See [[Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin]]
  
  
 
[[Category:2015-2016]]
 
[[Category:2015-2016]]

Latest revision as of 11:22, 9 January 2017

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

Site Visibility

Your sites are currently set to be publicly viewable.

  1. To change this go to Settings > Reading > Visibility
  2. You have the option to choose Visitors must have login to limit access to Evergreen community members or can leave the sites publicly viewable.

Display Name

How your Author display name can be changed sitewide.

  1. Go to Edit Profile from the "Howdy, your name" drop down in the upper left admin bar
  2. Change the "Display name publicly as" field to your choice. First name last initial is a good option.

Writing and Managing your content

Images, video and linked files

Connect to Zotero

Connect your site using the ZotPress plugin to your individual Zotero account to create a dynamic display of a collection of bibliographic resources.


Customize Your Site

Recommend Themes

Hueman

This is default theme your 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

If you feel compelled to use a different theme than Heuman, 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)
  • Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen


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.