Difference between revisions of "Terroir Spring Field Study - WordPress"

Revision as of 16:22, 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

• Insert an image
• Set a featured image for each post.
• WordPress built-in image galleries
• Instagram Galleries of group hashtags are located in two place:
  • Sidebar Instagram gallery is located in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets in the Home Page Sidebar 2 block
  • Instagram Gallery page uses shortcodes

[easy-instagram tag='yourhashhere' ...]

• 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 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.

• Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar
• Update the Instagram Gallery to display your Instagram hashed feed. See Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin