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Introduction to Wordpress
- 2. INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS Kaeli Vandertulip @KaeliTulip RafiaMirza @librarianrafia
- 3. GOALS OF TODAY’SWORKSHOP • 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
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- 5. PART 1: CREATEA WORDPRESS SITE
- 6. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Go to https://word press.com/ •Click on Create Website • For more help, go to Wordpress Support
- 7. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • This page willask you to chose a theme • The theme on the sample site is Twenty Thirteen
- 8. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • The Theme onthe sample site is Twenty Thirteen
- 9. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • 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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- 11. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Create your account • Your username doesnot have to be the same as your domain name
- 12. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • You will needto verify your email address
- 13. PART 2: :CUSTOMIZE YOUR SITE.
- 14. CREATINGATEACHINGPORTFOLIOWITHWORDPRESS • Log on •Go to the dashboard for your site
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- 16. People you invite don’t needto already have a Wordpress account, but they will need to create one before they can start editing.
- 17. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Scroll to thebottom • Click on Create a Page.
- 18. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • What do youwant to name the page? • Add text
- 19. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Notice how theTitle of the page gives you the permalink name
- 20. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Click Publish • Modify Visibilityif you don’t want it to be searchable
- 21. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • You can alwaysgo back and edit
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- 23. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • You donot want Nothing Found to be the first thing people see • Click on customize
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- 25. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • Under Static Front Page, choose the pagethat you want to be your home page. • Click Save and Publish
- 26. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS • My About pageis now the first thing people see.
- 27. ADDINGSOCIALMEDIA You havea 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
- 28. PART 3: ADDA WIDGET TO YOUR BLOG We will use Twitter as the example
- 29. WHATISAWIDGET? What isa 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
- 30. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS • Open your Wordpress blog •Click on the Customize option on your Wordpress blog
- 31. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS • We are goingto add a widget
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- 33. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS • Click Adda Widget • Find Twitter Timeline in the List
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- 35. PART 4: DELETEA WORDPRESS SITE
- 36. DELETINGYOURWORDPRESS • Click on settingsto customize your visibility or to delete you site (this cannot be undone)
- 37. This work islicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Rafia Mirza @librarianrafia Digital Humanities Librarian rafia@uta.edu Questions?
- 38. OTHER SAMPLE WORDPRESSSITES https://drfeitoblog.wordpress.com/ https://co.williams.com/ (this one is a Wordpress site; they paid for the domain to not include .wordpress)