This document provides instructions for creating and customizing a WordPress blog. It outlines how to set up a WordPress account, create pages and posts, add images and media, manage comments, and change the blog's appearance using themes, widgets, headers, and other customization options. Key steps include signing up for WordPress, adding pages and posts, uploading images and media to the media library, inserting images into pages using HTML code, managing comments, previewing and applying new themes, adding widgets to sidebars, designing and uploading custom headers, and enabling ratings. The document also covers more advanced customizations like adding backgrounds, photo galleries, and slideshows.

1. CREATING A WORDPRESS BLOG

2. Table of Contents
3. Creating a Wordpress Blog 22. Changing the Appearance of Your Blog
5. Changing Your Profile 23. - Themes
6. Changing Your “Gravatar” 24. - Widgets
7. Adding Pages to Your Blog 26. - Headers (i.e., “Banners”)
12. Adding a New Post 29. - Adding a “Ratings” button
13. Managing Your Posts 30. - Add a Background to Your Site
14. Adding Media Into Your Library
16. Adding Images to A Page
21. Managing Comments
32. Add a Photo Gallery
(better alternative to #16)
36. Add a Slideshow
(alternative to #32)

3. CREATING A WORDPRESS BLOG:
1. Go to this site: https://en.wordpress.com/signup/
Sign up: Blog Address (“yourname.wordpress.com”)
Username
(the name that will be displayed on your site)
Password
E-mail Address
Create: On the bottom, click on “Create Blog” after
everything is filled out.

4. CREATING A WORDPRESS BLOG:
2. To Log In, search the upper-LEFT corner for these boxes and
type in your e-mail and password:

5. CHANGING YOUR PROFILE:
3. To CHANGE your profile, UPDATE:
search the UPPER-RIGHT side WORDPRESS’
and hover over your name; it NEW LOOK
gives you several options:
Edit My Profile
Comments
Manage My Blogs
Help
Sign Out
Click on “Edit My Profile” and
make any necessary changes Hover over your name
and save. and click on DASHBOARD
to begin editing your site.

6. CHANGING YOUR “GRAVATAR”:
4a. To CHANGE your Gravatar (the
image other people will see
when they see your profile),
search the UPPER-RIGHT side
and CLICK on your name; on
the RIGHT SIDE, you should
see a blank “Gravatar”.
4b. Click on “Change your
Gravatar” and upload an
image to update your
Gravatar.

7. ADDING PAGES TO YOUR BLOG:
Hover over your name and click on
DASHBOARD, as shown on slide 5.
5a. On the left side is where you’ll find
all the tabs that will help design
your Wordpress Blog.
5b. Let’s start with adding a new page.
Look for “Pages” in the middle-left
of the tabs and hover your cursor
over it.
You will find that there are several
options.

8. ADDING PAGES TO YOUR BLOG:
5c. “All Pages” – lets you view all
of your pages and change
them
“Add New” – lets you add and
create a new page for your
blog
“Copy a Page” – lets you copy
any of your pages

9. ADDING PAGES TO YOUR BLOG:
5d. Click on “Add New” to create
a new page…you’ll see the
upcoming screen…

10. Add a Title for
your page here
Add text, You’ll need to add
images, etc., images from another
here image hosting site

11. “Parent” pages let you
organize your pages
into sub-categories
You can change the order of
your pages here by number
them “0, 1, 2, 3…etc.”
You can use these
word editing tools
for your text
Once you are finished, you will
need to click on “Publish” to
create the page

12. ADDING A NEW POST:
Click on “New Post”
and write a new
post!

13. MANAGING YOUR POSTS:
If you click on
“Posts”, you can
manage your posts
If you click on any of the boxes,
you can edit, delete (“Trash”), or
preview the post

14. ADDING MEDIA INTO YOUR LIBRARY:
If you click on “Media”, you can manage
any media that you’ve uploaded (video,
audio, images, etc.)
Click “Add New”
to upload a
media file

15. ADDING MEDIA INTO YOUR LIBRARY:
6. Just click on “Select Files” to
choose which files you will
upload Note that you may upload up to
1GB on Wordpress; for images, it
shouldn’t be a problem

16. ADDING IMAGES TO A PAGE:
7. Click on “Pages”, and
then choose which
page you are going to
edit by hovering
underneath the page
and clicking on “Edit”.
…you will return back to the Page Editing screen, as shown on the next
slide…

17. ADDING IMAGES TO A PAGE:
8a. Go to the Media Library where you uploaded all of your images.
8b. Click on an image.
8c. Copy the “File URL” on the bottom.

18. ADDING IMAGES TO A PAGE:
Choose a page to edit from the “All Pages” tab under “Pages; open it…
…the screen will look similar to this one.

19. ADDING IMAGES TO A PAGE:
8d. Type this code out in the text box for each image:
<img src=“PASTEYOURURLHERE”> You can also preview your
changes before you publish
it if you press this button.
Click “Publish” when
you have finished
typing the code(s) for
the images.
8e. Make sure you have the brackets properly typed in, or the code
won’t display the image when you publish it.

20. ADDING IMAGES TO A PAGE:
Your changes should be
displayed like this

21. MANAGING COMMENTS:
9. If you click on “Comments” on the left side of the dashboard, you
can reply, edit, and delete the comments on your posts. This is
good to moderate what is posted on your site.

22. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
9. If you click on
“Appearance” on
the left tab, you
can change a lot
of things, as seen
here. In the next
few slides, we’ll
go over the
important ones.

23. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
Current
THEMES theme.
10. Click on “Appearance”, and you
will be sent to a Theme
template site.
You may choose a new theme.
Clicking on “Preview” will show
you what your site will look like
before you “Activate” it.
Sample
themes

24. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
WIDGETS
Widgets are kind of like “apps”; they do a variety of
tasks. They’re usually located on the sidebar(s) of a
blog site.

25. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
WIDGETS
Drag the Widgets over to the RIGHT SIDE, where the
SIDEBARS are located. They will be active the next time
you load your Blog site.

26. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
HEADERS (and Footers)
You can make your own Headers (i.e., “Banners”) that
pop up on the top of your Home page. You can even
make a Footer, if you’d like.

27. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
HEADERS (and Footers)
You can design your own on Photoshop,
Paintshop, or Pixlr.com. If you feel comfortable,
you can also make the Header on the Ipad or
Iphone and upload it, using photo-editing tools.

28. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
HEADERS (and Footers)
Once you’ve uploaded the image that will be used
for the Header, click on “Save Changes” to update
your site. You may remove it later if you’d like.

29. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
ADDING “RATINGS”
Do you want to add “Ratings” (where your
viewers can add up to 5 stars to a post)?
Click on the left tab that says “Ratings”.
This screen will pop up; you may click on
the boxes to enable “Ratings”; make sure
to click “Save Changes” to activate it.

30. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
ADDING A BACKGROUND
11. If you’d like a custom
background that is
embedded into your blog
site, just click on
“Background” in the
“Appearance tab.
The screen on the right is
what will be displayed.

31. CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF
YOUR BLOG:
ADDING A BACKGROUND
11. If you’d like a custom
background that is
embedded into your blog
site, just click on
“Background” in the
“Appearance tab.
The screen on the right is
what will be displayed.

32. ADD A GALLERY ON YOUR PAGE
Adding a gallery can gives
…if you click on any
lots of character to your
of the images…
collection of images.

33. ADD A GALLERY ON YOUR PAGE
A “lightbox” gallery should appear,
allowing you to scroll through the
images saved on that page.

34. ADD A GALLERY ON YOUR PAGE
To make a gallery, choose a
page, and click “Edit”. The
Edit Page should come up
Click on this icon (“the camera”)
right here; it lets you upload
your images

35. ADD A GALLERY ON YOUR PAGE
This screen should pop
up in the middle. Click
“Select Files” to begin
uploading your images
Once the uploads have
finished, make sure to save
(located by scrolling to the
bottom – “Save All Changes”)
Scroll to the bottom, and
click on “Insert Gallery”; the
alternate way would be to
code the gallery in by typing:
[gallery]

36. ADD A SLIDESHOW ON YOUR PAGE
To make a slideshow, choose a
page, and click “Edit”. The Edit
Page should come up
Click on this icon (“the camera”)
right here; it lets you upload
your images

37. ADD A SLIDESHOW ON YOUR PAGE
This screen should pop
up in the middle. Click
“Select Files” to begin
uploading your images
Once the uploads have
finished, make sure to save
(located by scrolling to the
bottom – “Save All Changes”)
Scroll to the bottom, and
click on “Insert Slideshow”;
the alternate way would be
to code the gallery in by
typing: [slideshow]