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ABOUT ME
• Junior at Washington College• 5 years with WordPress• Run a site called Theme Lab
WORDPRESS BACKGROUND
• Free and open source (GPL)• Used by over 55 MILLION SITES• Kim Kardashian• Library of Congress• Others on the WordPress
Showcase• The Elm website
LOGGING IN
• Click on “Log In” link• Also through /wp-admin/
USER ROLES
• Subscriber• Contributor• Author• Editor• Administrator
DASHBOARD• Dashboard
widgets can be moved around, expanded, minimized, or removed through “screen options” on a per account basis
• Don’t freak out if your side menu is minimized
ADD NEW POSTS
• Pretty self explanatory
• Basic word processing features
• Visual vs. code view
• Screen options
DISTRACTION FREE WRITING
CATEGORIES VS. TAGS
• Basically, categories tend to be more general, tags are more specific
• Categories: News, Opinion, Student Life, Lifestyle, Sports
• Tags: Athlete of the Week, Greek Life
POSTS VS. PAGES
• Posts (traditionally) listed in reverse chronological order• Pages are static, are not categorized or tagged• Page examples: About, Contact, Advertising
USING IMAGES
EDITING IMAGES
• Crop• Rotate• Flip• Undo/Redo• Resize/Scale
You can undo all of your changes at any time.
RESOURCES
• WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org)
• WordPress.tv (http://wordpress.tv)• Theme Lab
(http://www.themelab.com)• WordPress.com Support (
http://en.support.wordpress.com/)• WordPress.org Support Forums (
http://wordpress.org/support)
