This document provides Wordpress tips for authors posting to a class site, including how to login, access the dashboard, post content, add media like images and videos, edit images and provide credits, wrap text around images, add links, provide tags, and add a byline with the author's full name. Key steps are logging into the site through the Meta menu, clicking on the WP Admin or Dashboard option from the black bar menu to access the backend interface, and using the Post and Publish modules to draft, preview, and publish content on or before the due date.

1. Wordpress Tips
A guide for authors of our class site
CO300 F15
Sec. 6, 10
Laura Thomas
Colorado State University

2. Login
• Go to the site for your section
Section 06
https://csu2020visions.wordpress.com.wordpress.c
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Section 10
https://envisioncsu2020.wordpress.com
• Login (under Meta on the home page)

3. Access the dashboard
• After logging in, you should see a black bar at
the top of the page.
• Pull down the menu
under the blog name on
that black bar.
• Click on WP Admin
or Dashboard (at the top
of the menu).

4. Post:
where and how you’ll add your piece to the site
• Choose Post to add or edit a post.

5. Text Editor
• Use the text editor to format your post. You
can copy/paste from Word and/or write or
add elements directly.

6. Publish post
• You can save a post as a
draft, preview it, edit it, and
adjust settings from the
Publish module.
• Be sure that you have
published it no later than
the due date & time.

7. Add Media
inserting images and more into your post
• .
• Add Media to
insert a variety of
file types (e.g.
jpeg, gif, pdf) or
embed YouTube
videos.
• Avoid adding file
types that require
a program to view
them that not
everyone has, e.g.
Word or
Powerpoint

8. Edit Images & Provide
credits
• When you upload an
image, you can edit it
and provide a credit by
typing the source of
that image into the
Caption field.

9. Wrap text around images
• http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/ima
ge-alignment/

10. Add links
• Type the text that readers will click to activate the link.
• Highlight the text.
• Click the Insert/edit link icon.
• Paste the full URL and always check the “Open link in a new window/tab” option.

11. Provide tags
• List keywords to help those looking for the
topics or themes that your piece includes

12. Byline
• Be sure that your full name appears with your post (not your
username).
• Get directions on how to change the display of your name
here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-
username/