create a (free) wordpress site
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR SITE
Example: Creating an Online Teaching Portfolio
GOALS OF TODAY’S WORKSHOP
• Part 1: Create a Wordpress Site• Part 2: Customize your site.
• Example: Modify your site to create a Teaching Portfolio
• Part 3: Customize your blog• Part 3: Embedding code in your blog• Part 5: Delete a Wordpress Site
Wordpress example site: https://librarianrafia.wordpress.com/
PART 1: CREATE A
WORDPRESS SITE
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• Go to https://wordpress.com/
• Click on Create Website
• For more help, go to Wordpress Support
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• This page will ask you to chose a theme
• The theme on the sample site is Twenty Thirteen
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• The Theme on the sample site is Twenty Thirteen
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• Choose your Domain. (This determines your url)
• Think about how people will be searching for you, consider using your full name.
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• Choose the free plan.
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• Create your account
• Your username does nothave to be the same as your domain name
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• You will need to verify your email address
PART 2: : CUSTOMIZE
YOUR SITE.
Example: Modify your site to create a Teaching Portfolio
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• Log on
• Go to the dashboard for your site
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• Scroll to the bottom
• Click on Create a Page.
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• What do you want to name the page?
• Add text
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• Notice how the Title of the page gives you the permalink name
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• Click Publish
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• You can always go back and edit
PART 3: CUSTOMIZE
YOUR BLOG
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• You do not want Nothing Found to be the first thing people see
• Click on customize
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• Click on Static Front Page
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• Under Static Front Page, choose the page that you want to be your home page.
• Click Save and Publish
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• My About page is now the first thing people see.
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You have a few options in regards to adding your social media account
You can add a link to your social media account on your about page
If you want to highlight a specific item in you social media account, you can look for the embed option
If you want to feature your social media account it ins entirety, look for the option of inserting a widget
PART 4: EMBEDDING
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• When you are editing a page you can click on the HTML view to add code
PART 3: ADD A
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We will use Twitter as the example
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What is a Widget?
“In computing, a web widget is a software widget for the web.” via
How to add a Widget
The rules may be different for different platforms
We are going to look at adding Twitter Timeline Widget
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• Go to the settings of the social media site that you want a widget from
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• Create awidget
• You may have access to some customization options here
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• Create awidget
• You may have access to some customization options here
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• Get your Twitter widget ID.
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• Open your Wordpress blog
• Click on the Customizeoption on your Wordpress blog
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• We are going to add a widget
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• Choose where on your blog to want to add the widget
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• Search for the Twitter Widget
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• Select the Twitter Widget
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• Customize and add your twitter ID#
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PART 5: DELETE A
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• Click on settings to customize your visibility or to delete you site (this cannot be undone)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Rafia Mirza@librarianrafiaDigital [email protected]
Questions?