4. Goals Introduction to WordPress Overview of basic features Getting started with customization Discussion in light of Seminar Think about WordPress as a literary machine Keep Nelson’s Fantics in mind
5. WordPress 2003 (6 AG) Open Source A “personal publishing system” AKA Content Management System (CMS)
6. Plan A quick overview of WordPress’ layout Form groups PCs and Macs Distribute the knowledge! Specific exercises
7. Your Site Server http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu Resource /mdst3703_f10_rca2t Does everyone have a site?
10. Important Admin Stuff Users Your Profile Settings General Writing Reading Privacy Permalinks
11. Exercise: Change Your Profile Go to Users Your Profile Can’t change name Add a web site if you want to Add some biographical info
12. Exercise: Change Site Settings General Site name, tagline, email for admin, date/time/week format Writing Enable Atom and XML-RPC Reading Note “Front Page Displays” (we’ll come back to this) Discussion Comment settings
13. Exercise: Change Site Settings Privacy Set to ‘I would like my blog to be visible only to registered members of this blog.’ Permalinks Set Category Base to “category” Set Tag Base to “tag”
14. Exercise: Pick a Theme Themes define the “look and feel” of your site They also provide different functions Configurability Regions to park things (widgets) Go to Appearance Themes Suggestions: Constructor – highly configurable, but advanced Misty Look -- can change header (also SHANTI #1) P2 – Twitter-like, good for ideas … Tarski
15. Exercise: Add Widgets Go to Appearance Widgets Drag widgets to regions on right Regions vary by theme Add Links, Categories, and the Tag List Widget Configure widgets as necessary Drag off to remove Some themes have hard-coded widgets e.g. iNove
16. Pages and Posts The basic units of information in WP: Pages Static content Organized into a menu tree Posts Dynamic content Organized by date, tag, and category
17. Exercise: Create a Welcome Page Go to Pages Add New Use the title “Welcome” Add some content and save Also Create a “News” page, with no content Go to Settings Reading Set Front page to “Welcome” Set Posts page to “News”
18. Exercise: Create a Child Page Create a Page called “Child” Just for demo purposes Before saving, choose “Welcome” as its “parent”
19. Exercise: Add a Link to the Course Site Go Links Add New Create new link View in widget
20. Exercise: Add a Post Go to Posts Add New Create some content
21. Categories and Tags Categories are hierarchical Tags are rhizomic What kinds of things are appropriate to each?
22. Comments Comments can be turned on or off per post Default settings can be made in the Discussion section of Settings
