introduction to wordpress
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INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS
Kaeli Vandertulip@KaeliTulip
Rafia Mirza@librarianrafia
GOALS OF TODAY’S WORKSHOP
• Part 1: Create a Wordpress Site• Part 2: Customize your site. • Example: Modify your site to
create a Business Site• Part 3: Customize your blog• Part 4: Delete a Wordpress Site
Wordpress example site: https://librarianrafia.wordpress.com/
https://kaelivandertulip.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 not have 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.
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• Log on
• Go to the dashboard for your site
Click icon to add picture Add Teammates to your site
Click icon to add picture People you invite don’t need to already have a Wordpress account, but they will need to create one before they can start editing.
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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
• Modify Visibility if you don’t want it to be searchable
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• You can always go back and edit
PART 3: CUSTOMIZE YOUR
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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 3: ADD A WIDGET TO YOUR
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We will use Twitter as the example
WH
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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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• Open your Wordpress blog
• Click on the Customize option on your Wordpress blog
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• We are going to add a widget
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• Choose Footer
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• Click Add a Widget
• Find Twitter Timeline in the List
Click icon to add picture
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• Customize and add your twitter ID
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Click icon to add picture
PART 4: DELETE A WORDPRESS SITE
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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 Humanities [email protected]
Questions?
OTHER SAMPLE WORDPRESS SITES https://drfeitoblog.wordpress.com/ https://co.williams.com/ (this one is a
Wordpress site; they paid for the domain to not include .wordpress)