Wordpress training for leadership team of WPD

1. Communication
Transformation
Wordpress Training for wpcob.org

2. • Why are we doing this?
• Login and user accounts
• Wordpress Dashboard and Toolbar
• Posts v. Pages
• Creating and editing posts
• Applying categories to posts
• Basic text formatting
• Creating links
• Images—and Featured Images
• Using the —More— tag
• Saving drafts v. Publishing
Our Agenda

3. • Conserve fiscal resources
• Conserve human resources
• Conserve environmental resources
• Carry The Shepherd’s Voice farther
Why are we doing this?

4. • User: acckstudent
• Password: Ack08cls
System Login

5. • westernplainschurchofthebrethren.org
or
• wpcob.org
District Website URL

6. • Username: lastname + first initial
Example: griffiths
• Password: wpd14tvt
• Change to a secure password
User Account Info

7. • News / updates
• Organized by date,
author and category
• Available through
index
Posts v. Pages—What’s the difference?
• Permanent
information
• Organized in parent /
child relationship
• Available through
menu
Posts Pages

8. • Complete (implied) sentence
• Present tense verbs for past
• Infinitives (to + verb) for future
• Omit linking verbs, articles, and and
Write good titles

9. • Works just like a word processor
• Perform all text formatting in
Wordpress
• Use drop-down headings for
subheads
Creating / Editing Posts

10. • Our main organizing tool! Apply all
that fit your content
• To include your post in the print
newsletter, apply the Shepherd’s
Voice category
• District News and Featured puts
your post on home page
• Want a new category but not an
editor? Call Kendra
Categories

11. If you are placing your post on the
home page, insert the Read More tag
in an appropriate place—perhaps after
the first sentence or the first
paragraph.
The —More— Tag

12. • Take photos. Use them. They do add
visual interest to the site.
• Place cursor in post. Click add
media. Select Upload Files. Insert
into Post.
• In post, select image, click pencil
icon to edit, wrap text.
Images

13. • Featured image appears at top of
post…
• Unless you Disable Header Image
• Featured image appears in middle
column of home page if post is
categorized as Featured.
Featured Image

14. Once you Publish, your post is on the
website for all to see—but you can
continue to edit and update your post
as often as necessary.
Publish

15. … for helping the Communication
Vision Fulfillment Team improve our
district website and newsletter!
Questions or help? Email me at
claryb@mcpherson.edu
Thank You…