Post on 05-Dec-2014
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Getting a Blog
• http://piratepanel.ecu.edu– Log in, choose “Create Blog”
• http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/wp-login.php
Getting a Custom Named Blog
• Create TechExcel request• Optionally put in Consulting/Training
queue• Ex: Project, Conference, Department
name
Customizing Your Blog
• Theme• Dashboard: Users• Dashboard: Settings: Discussion• Categories• Tags• Pages• Widgets• Plugins• Post!
Theme
• ECU CommonSpot Theme– recommended for “official” blogs
• ECU Theme– If you like a modern ECU color
• Any of dozens of others already installed
Theme
• Create your own– Creating your own theme
• Request a theme– Ex: Minimalistic Clean Free WordPress
Themes
Dashboard: Users
• Update name for posts• Add additional users individually or in
bulk.• All user names are simply PirateID (no
@ecu.edu, no intra)
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
Categories
• Create hierarchical organization for posts
• Possible faculty categories• Teaching• Research• Service
• Benefit: Find posts quickly• Benefit: Subscribe to single category
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
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
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
Recommended Widgets
• Meta – Log in/out• Links – Dashboard: Links• Categories – Dashboard: Posts:
Categories• Tag Cloud – Dashboard: Posts: Post
Tags
Plugins
• Wptouch iPhone Theme• Mobilepress• Slideshare• Viper’s Video Quicktabs• Sociable
Wptouch iPhone Theme
• Works regardless of “normal” theme• Detects iPhone/iPod Touch and
converts to device friendly format• Allows users to revert to normal thems
Mobilepress
• Allows mobile theme for non Apple devices
Slideshare
• Integration with Slideshare.net• Just copy and paste “Embed
(wordpress.com)” code from Slideshare into post.
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
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
Media: Images
• From URL• From Computer• From Library
Minimal WordPress
• Create blog• Update name• Update about page• Pick theme• Start posting
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)
Now What?
• So You’ve Got a Blog. Now What?