Presentation to East Carolina University College of Human Ecology Distributed IT describing WordPress installation.

2. Getting a Blog http://piratepanel.ecu.edu Log in, choose “Create Blog” http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/wp-login.php

3. Getting a Custom Named Blog Create TechExcel request Optionally put in Consulting/Training queue Ex: Project, Conference, Department name

4. Customizing Your Blog Theme Dashboard: Users Dashboard: Settings: Discussion Categories Tags Pages Widgets Plugins Post!

5. Theme ECU CommonSpotTheme recommended for “official” blogs ECU Theme If you like a modern ECU color Any of dozens of others already installed

6. Theme Create your own Creating your own theme Request a theme Ex: Minimalistic Clean Free WordPress Themes

7. Dashboard: Users Update name for posts Add additional users individually or in bulk. All user names are simply PirateID (no @ecu.edu, no intra)

8. Dashboard: Settings: Discussion “Allow people to post comments on new articles” = Alllow comments at all “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” = ECU authorized users only “An administrator must always approve the comment” = Comments don’t appear until released

9. Categories Create hierarchical organization for posts Possible faculty categories Teaching Research Service Benefit: Find posts quickly Benefit: Subscribe to single category

10. Tags Free form method of adding metadata to posts Possible faculty tags “Some journal name” “Some conference name” Benefit: Add additional descriptive terms that aren’t worthy of entire category

11. Pages Modify or delete the “About” page Optionally add more pages, such as “Teaching Statement”, “Research Statement” Optionally choose to have tabs (if theme uses them) for pages

12. Widgets Can be placed in one of four sidebars Name of sidebars is theme dependent Requires that theme is widget enabled Make sure to use preview to verify that widgets work Theme pack themes and ECU themes allow widgets

13. Recommended Widgets Meta – Log in/out Links – Dashboard: Links Categories – Dashboard: Posts: Categories Tag Cloud – Dashboard: Posts: Post Tags

14. Plugins WptouchiPhone Theme Mobilepress Slideshare Viper’s Video Quicktabs Sociable

15. WptouchiPhone Theme Works regardless of “normal” theme Detects iPhone/iPod Touch and converts to device friendly format Allows users to revert to normal thems

16. Mobilepress Allows mobile theme for non Apple devices

17. Slideshare Integration with Slideshare.net Just copy and paste “Embed (wordpress.com)” code from Slideshare into post.

18. Viper’s Video Quicktabs Adds buttons in new post editor to editor sites Includes options for FLV and Quicktime (not enabled by default) See plugin settings for enabled media

19. Sociable Adds buttons/footer to all posts that let you “Include this article in XXX” Choose from 99 social sites to in/exclude from your posts

20. Media: Images From URL From Computer From Library

21. Minimal WordPress Create blog Update name Update about page Pick theme Start posting

22. Creating Local WordPress How to Back Up Your WordPress Blog Using XAMPP Consulting Team has lots of XAMPP and WordPress experience, we can help with setting this up Use Dashboard: Tools: Export to copy all tags, categories, posts into local install (doesn’t copy themes)

23. Now What? So You’ve Got a Blog. Now What?