Training Material
Introduction to WordPress @ ESU 10
- Blogging Resources
- Planning & Support of Blogging in the Classroom
- Request a new WordPress account
- Logging in
- Navigating your Dashboard – Edublogs Documentation
- Initial Settings
- Appearance
- Themes – EduBlogs Documentation
- Theme Options
- Widgets – EduBlogs Documentation
Working with Posts
- Blogs in Plain English – YouTube Video
- Your first post – EduBlogs Documentation
- Editing posts – EduBlogs Documentation
- Working with TinyMCE Editor – BOINC Documentation
- Inserting images into a post – EduBlogs Documentation
- Inserting documents into a post – EduBlogs Documentation
- Adding Categories and Tags – EduBlogs Documentation
- Scheduling posts for a later date/time – EduBlogs Documentation
- Password Protecting posts – EduBlogs Documentation
- Managing Comments – EduBlogs Documentation
Working with Pages
- Difference between Pages and Posts – EduBlogs Documentation
- Writing Pages – EduBlogs Documentation
- Switching to static home page – EduBlogs Documentation
- Page hierarchy – EduBlogs Documentation
- Changing page order in navigation – EduBlogs Documentation
Working with Links
- What is a blogroll? – Definition
- Managing your links – WordPress Codex
Credits
A big thank you to Sue Waters and EduBlogs for providing pointers and documentation for this project.
Workshop Resource Files
Advanced Topics
- Using Contact Form 7
- Theme Development
- Embed Media – Using Google Docs Viewer to display PDF, PPT, or TIFF files
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