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Creating a WordPress Website

Learn how to create a WordPress website for the Oklahoma Conference of The UMC Department of Communications. Discover the reasons to use WordPress, set up a free site, customize your homepage, choose a theme, add media, embed videos, create menus, and manage users.

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Creating a WordPress Website

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  1. Creating a WordPress Website Oklahoma Conference of The UMCDepartment of Communications

  2. Reasons to use WordPresswordpress.com • Cost • Quick • Convenient • Responsive

  3. General Terms • Domain name • Host • CMS

  4. General Terms • Dashboard • Theme • Plugins

  5. Using WordPress.com to Create a Website Host and Domain

  6. Setting up a free site Once you submit this form an email will be sent to you to complete the registration • https://signup.WordPress.com/signup/ Type in the name for your website here

  7. Free Basic —What you get • A free WordPress.com address http://ourfabulousbusiness.WordPress.com • Choose from free themes. • Basic customization • 3 GB of space • No video storage. • Community support

  8. Login to your account and set up your personal profile information

  9. Click on your page to access the dashboard.

  10. To set your website title and some of the main settings go to Settings>>General.

  11. First - Set up your homepage • Click on Pages – Add new • Type in Home in the title area • IMPORTANT - Click Publish • Now add a second page • Type in your title • Click Publish

  12. In settings go to reading Under ‘Front page displays’, click on A static page and select your home page for the front page Click save changes at the bottom of the page.

  13. Make your homepage beautiful Here a few ideas: • Create a welcome message • Use images, text, photos that set the tone for your site. • Limit the length of the page.

  14. Adding Media Click on the Add Media Button then under upload files click on the select files and choose an image from your computer Click on the button on the bottom right to insert image into your page.

  15. Click on update before leaving the page

  16. Choose a theme The WordPress Content Management System (CMS) is theme-based which means that you can change designs any time you want. The default theme is installed To activate a theme go to Appearance >>Themes in the left panel menu.

  17. Get personality: pick a theme to define the look and feel of your site.

  18. Check out the available themes:  A theme is a layout and visual look for your website. On your dashboard, head to the Appearance >> Themes menu. Preview how a theme will look by clicking “Live Preview.”

  19. If you like what you see, click “Activate” Pick the right theme that’s right for you: Themes come in a lot of different styles and offer different functions.

  20. Add more content with widgets. Choose the widget and drag and drop in sidebar box.

  21. Upload a custom header and background:  Most themes let you tweak the look of the header and the background. If your site supports custom headers, you’ll see the option in the Appearance >> Header menu

  22. Embed video to your site Embed a URL from YouTube or Vimeo To quickly embed a YouTube video, copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video Then, paste the video’s URL on its own line in the visual editor, and make sure it’s not hyperlinked

  23. Menus Adding Custom Links Want a menu tab to link directly to another website? No problem! Type in the URL where you want to take someone when they click on it, add Link Text to specify what the tab will say, and then click Add to Menu.

  24. Menus Changing the order and creating sub-menus At any time, you can change the order and placement of menu items by simply dragging and dropping the items to change their order.

  25. To create sub-menus or “drop-down” style menus, drag individual items to the right to “nest” them under a given parent tab. You can undo this by dragging them to the left.

  26. Add New Links: To add a new link, click on Add New in the Links menu

  27. Link Categories You can manage a blogroll (a set of links) using the Links menu in your Dashboard.

  28. These links will display on your page if you have added the Links Widget from the Appearance -> Widgets page.

  29. To manage link categories, click on Link Categories in the Links menu.To add a new category, use the ‘Add Category’ form on the left.

  30. To modify existing link categories, hover over the category name and then click on the Edit, Quick Edit, Delete, or View options that appear below it.

  31. The Links column on the far right shows the number links assigned to each category.

  32. Adding Users

  33. Important Note about adding new users to your WordPress site Types of Users: • Administrator: An administrator has full and complete ownership. • Editor: An editor can view, edit, publish, and delete any posts/pages, moderate comments, manage categories, manage tags, manage links and upload files/images.

  34. Types of Users: • Author: An author can edit, publish and delete their posts, as well as upload files/images. • Contributor: A contributor can edit their posts but cannot publish them.. • Subscriber: Subscribers only have the ability to leave comments.

  35. Adding Users: Go to Users → Add New. Your new user will get their password in the email with instruction on how to log in. Once logged in they can change their password and any other info by editing their profile.

  36. Changing User Roles: • Head to Users → All Users in your WordPress admin. • Check the box(es) next to user avatar(s). • Using Change role to… dropdown menu, select the new user role(s) you want to assign. • Click Change.

  37. Here is our beautiful website, --- well ok maybe not beautiful yet, --- but it is a start and it didn’t take very long to create!

  38. Reading Resources • Article on WordPress from UMComm • Article Using WordPress.com to Create a Website • Article Getting the Most from WordPress.com

  39. United Methodist Communications is offering options to local churches • UM branded templates • WordPress Based • Email • Unique Domain Name • The free package is intended and restricted to local United Methodist churches that currently have a Find-A-Church profile. http://www.umcchurches.org/billing/index.php

  40. Thank you for coming to today. Please feel free to contact us with questions about setting up a Wordpress site. Department of Communications1501 N.W. 24th StOklahoma City, OK 73106405.530.2012

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