Getting Started

Browse to: mymacewan.ca Login with MacEwan credentials Click the “Faculty” tab

Web + log = Blog “Blogs in Plain English”

WordPress is a blogging tool Emphasis on easy content managment

Text Images Documents to be downloaded Links to other web pages and resources

PAGES

Like a standard web page Content will not change

often Hierarchical

My Pets▪ My Cat▪ My Dogs

▪ Fido▪ Rover

POSTS

New content added over time

i.e. Thoughts on a topic, progress updates

Accumulate with most recent at the top

Categorized and can be viewed by category

WEBSITE

Pages are most important with the option of adding posts.

We’ll need to reconfigure the site so that pages are most prominent

BLOG

Posts are the most important with the option of adding a few pages

WordPress comes like this “out of the box”

ALL THEMES OK FOR WEBSITE, EXCEPT

Typebased Emphasis on posting date

APPROPRIATE FOR BLOG

All themes are appropriate if you choose to emphasize blogging.

MOST THEMES HAVE A QUICK “EDIT” LINK

THESE THEMES LACK THIS LINK Irresistable Typebased

To access the Dashboard, you’ll need to browse to:

<<Site name>>/wp-admin/

Blog Title Tagline Timezone Date Format Time Format Week Starts On

Pages | Add New Title Rich Text Editor Publish Area Page Parent

Add text to a new page using the “Paste from Word” button

Evaluate the results

Add images Demo: add and image to a

page Links to web-based

video Links to audio files Add documents

Demo: Upload a PDF file to the server and make a link to it

1. Add two new Pages2. Add at least one page “under” each of those

two pages3. Add an image to an existing page4. Add a document to the Media Library

file1.pdf5. Add a link to that document on a page6. Add link to an external web page, e.g.

http://www.macewan.ca

Posts | Add New Categories Tags

1. Add two new categories2. Add two posts to each of the two categories3. Add tags to each of the posts4. See how the posts, categories and tags

display on your site

Discussion Default article settings Other comment settings E-mail me whenever Before a comment appears Comment Moderation

Privacy Decide if you want your web site to be picked up

by search engines Permalinks

Jury is out on this one. Leave as is for now

1. Add a new Page titled “Home” This will be the first page people see

2. Add a new Page that will contain your posts Suggested titles

▪ “My Blog”▪ “What’s New”▪ “Random Thoughts”

Ignore this if you’ve chosen “Pride” or “8some”

1. Tell WordPress what to display as a “Front page”

Settings | Reading Front page displays: choose “A static page”

▪ Front Page: “Home”▪ Posts Page: “My Blog” or “What’s New”

1. Make the duplicate “Home” page invisible We need to use a plugin to do this:

▪ Dashboard | Plugins | Advanced Category Excluder▪ Click “Activate”

Dashboard | ACE | Pages▪ Select Home in all columns▪ Click “Doit!”

1. Reorder your Pages For each page assign a number in the “Order”

field in the “Attributes” section▪ Low Number = left▪ High Number = right

(A new Plugin is coming that will make this reordering far more intuitive.)

Links | Add New Link Name Web Address Description (optional but recommended) Assign a Category

▪ Add a new category if necessary

Target (new window is best) Click Add Link to save

Add two new categories Add at least two links to each category