Workshop: How to add creative touches to your Wordpress Blog Dominique Jolly

Instagram  Adding your Instagram post on your Wordpress gives viewers a better image of you. The purpose of Wordpress blogs are to display information about yourself and linking Instagram videos and pics may help.  First, copy the image’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the image:  In your post/page editor, paste the URL where you would like it to appear. Make sure that the URL is on its own line.  By default, the URL embeds the largest size of the image available, which is 612px wide. Video embeds look very similar but will show the triangle “play” symbol:  If you need more help: 

Soundcloud  Soundcloud can help with audio instruction.  First, click on your track or playlist's 'Share' button. You will then see an overlay appear, and must click on the 'Embed' tab in order to preview the embeddable player. Click the box next to 'Wordpress code' to get the appropriate embed code:  Choose post a link in WordPress under new post  Paste your code:  If you need more help : wordpress 

Twitter People use twitter to voice their opinion of issues, and what better way to spread the word than using your Wordpress. To enable Publicize, on the Settings → Sharing page click Add new Twitter Connection. You’ll be taken to Twitter where you’ll be asked to approve the connection between your WordPress.com blog and your Twitter account. Click Allow. If you wish to disable sharing for an individual post, uncheck it before clicking Publish. Twitter Timeline Widget Go to Appearance → Widgets and click on the Twitter Timeline widget Select the widget area where you’d like the timeline to appear On the same page in the widget area, open the widget and complete the information to display the correct timeline

Plug-in Pictures  Plug-in pictures appear as a picture, displays pictures in a certain order repeatedly.  There are many options you can use to download it but the best one is : Creative Image Slider  It is a program with its own tutorial, but it can be downloaded from :