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Jazzing Up Wordpress

Discover new tips and tricks to enhance your website design on Wordpress. Learn to insert images, add links, customize fonts, password-protect pages, and more. Keep your public site safe and engaging for all visitors. Follow best practices for online privacy and content accuracy. Streamline your webpage with basic components like pages, posts, sidebars, and banners. Get insights on creating impactful blog posts, managing files, and crafting compelling content. Access valuable tools and features on Wordpress to optimize your site effectively.

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Jazzing Up Wordpress

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  1. Jazzing Up Wordpress tips and tricks to streamline your class webpage Katrina Lehman Attribution-ShareAlikeCC BY-SA 2012

  2. Objectives: Identify basic webpage components Learn new tips and tricks for making your website look more creative

  3. You will learn how to: insert images/photos into your webpage insert links to your webpage change the size and color of your font password-protect a page or post upload a document or newsletter onto your webpage

  4. YOUR SITE IS PUBLIC, WHICH MEANS Anyone in the world can see your site Be aware of online privacy (avoid attaching names to photographs) When quoting a published source, be sure to cite your sources Accuracy matters: double check grammar and facts

  5. BASIC COMPONENTS Pages (tabs at the top of your site with important, generally static info) Posts (articles, reflections, current updates, timely news: chronological, with most recent post at the top) Sidebars (other info: categories, archives, and links) Banner: pictures that users can’t change

  6. Pages, Posts, Sidebars, Banner

  7. What makes a good blog post? Writing: short, sweet, to-the-point Language/word choice: who’s your audience? Visual effect: One image that captures attention. Font: If audience is LS students: large, colorful font. Content: Links to other websites, if appropriate

  8. Pages: Appear as Tabs

  9. Pages: Appear as Tabs

  10. Words of advice File management: Create a folder on your desktop. Put all docs, images, videos, photos you will use on your site in the folder so that they’re easy to find Write content in Word Doc, use spell check, THEN post the final copy. Avoid large files (the limit is 145 MB): large files are hard to download and take up bandwidth.

  11. Sample Posts

  12. Sample Posts

  13. Posts: Good News You can: Delete posts Edit posts Save posts as drafts to be posted later Set a future publishing time and date

  14. Pages: Good News You can create pages, save them, and add them to your website later You can change and edit the content of your page easily You can password-protect a page

  15. Tool Bar: The Kitchen Sink • This icon is called the “kitchen sink” • Clicking on it will hide/show the second row of icons on your toolbar. • Be sure to click on this icon to show all of your toolbar icons.

  16. Your toolbar should look like this:

  17. How to create a hyperlink Copy the link address (url) Highlight the text you want link Click on the “hyperlink” icon. Paste the url address into the url field. Click “save”

  18. How to insert an image: • Place cursor where you’d like the image to be inserted into your post • Click on camera icon above toolbar • Click “select”, and choose your file • Before clicking “insert”, do the following: • Choose alignment • Choose size • Click “Insert”

  19. How to change the size of font: Highlight the text you want to change Click on formatting toggle on your toolbar Select your desired font size

  20. How to change the color of font: Click on the toggle arrow to the right of the “A” icon on toolbar Select desired color

  21. How to password-protect a page Open page in dashboard. Click on “password protect” Create password Save

  22. How to save a document to site: In your post/page, name your document Save document to “Media” Open document from within media Highlight and copy the url (at bottom). In post/page, highlight the title of your document. Click “link” icon on toolbar Paste url into url field and save.

  23. Have we met our objectives? Identify basic webpage components Learn new tips and tricks for making your website look more creative

  24. You have learned how to: insert images/photos into your webpage insert links to your webpage change the size and color of your font password-protect a page or post upload a document or newsletter onto your webpage

  25. Katrina Lehman Attribution-ShareAlikeCC BY-SA 2012 Thank-you. The End

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