Post on 19-Feb-2017
Creating a simple website with WordPress
Section 1: Prep
Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way
Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and… …fill with content
Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and upload videos to YouTube.
Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and photoshop images to 72dpi.
Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and Photoshop images to 72dpi.• This will save you web space and speed up the loading time of images
for visitors to your site. • Open images in Photoshop and resize to 72dpi and no more than
about 1000 pixels wide and 800 pixels high.• Either save a copy or make sure you are not editing your originals
Section 2: Make some
pages (not posts)
•What’s the difference?• Posts are more suited to blogs• Pages are more suited to websites
Go to Pages… Add new
(1) Give your page a title
(2) Type some text(3) Publish
(Always remember to click Publish or if you are making changes
then Update – I won’t tell you every time)
(4) See what you have made
(5) Make a few more pages. Call one of them something like HOME then look at your All
Pages section
1) Hover your mouse over Sample Page
and click Quick Edit2) Set status to draft.
This means the sample page is not
published, but is still there for you to look
at.Remember to always click Update (I won’t tell you every time)
3) Go into Quick edit for all your other
pages except for your home page and make
the homepage the parent
4) And you probably want to turn off
comments on them too
1) To add links within a page, select some
text2) Click the link button
2) Click the link button
3) Copy and paste a URL or…
4) Choose one of your own pages
6) Click Add Link
If it is a link within your site, leave
this blank
If it is to another website, tick this
box
To add individual pictures not in a
slideshow or lightbox format, use this button
Upload pictures
Choose
Insert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4THpbKZ0Zg
Use this to insert a YouTube video
Paste URL here
To create a simple gallery click here
Select images
Then click here
Adjust settings to your taste
Then click here
Click the pencil to edit the galley settings
Section 3: Now we need to
make your homepage
become the first thing that people
see…… and sort out a few things:Sidebar WidgetsThemes
2) Go to static front page
3) Choose A static page
4) Choose whatever you called your
homepage
1) Go to Appearancethen
Customise
5) Save and Publish
6) Close
At any time you can click here to see
how your site looks.
This is a sidebar. You probably don’t want all of these things.
You can turn them off by going to…
AppearanceThen
Widgets
Then select the widget and delete
Or just choose as theme with no sidebar and
they will all disappear!
Section 3: Adjusting the
theme
… and sort out a few things:Sidebar WidgetsThemes
Then Add New
To change themes, go to Themes
Install something
you like
Activate, then take a look at
your site!
To add your own images to the theme and tailor your theme to your needs, go to
Appearancethen
Customise
Every Wordpress theme has different settings, so you will have to experiment with them to get things as you want them. For
example…
This adjusts the header area
I would pick a theme with as few options here as possible to make your first site easier.