More WordPress Kathy E Gill 3 February 2011

What Is WordPress?  A content management system

Recap: Widgets & Themes  Not all themes are widget-capable  Themes vary in widget options, location  Access via Dashboard, Appearance -> Widgets

Today  General Settings  Links  Categories  Design Considerations  Text Widgets  Basic HTML

General Settings  Lab: modify the tag line and set time zone to Pacific

Links  What are they  Where are they  How to edit/delete  See Links SubPanel tutorialLinks SubPanel tutorial  Lab: review existing links, add course site

Categories and Tags  What are they  Where are they  How to edit/delete  Should never have “uncategorized” posts  Tutorial; categories sub-panel; tags sub-panel Tutorialcategories sub-paneltags sub-panel

Design Considerations  Dark on light is easier to read  San Serif fonts are easier to read on screen  Fixed versus variable widths: impact on readability

Text Widgets  The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar, which makes it powerful and flexible.  You can use a text widget to display links, plain text, images, tables or CSS styled HTML.

For Portfolio Sites  Consider adding links to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter  To do this, we will use a Text Widget.

Adding Facebook Badge  Drag Text Widget to sidebar  Go to Facebook Profile BadgesFacebook Profile Badges  Pick style, Select “Other”, Copy code  Paste into Text Widget; save

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We Need A Header!  Use the “Title” Field in the Text Widget  Or include the code in the body of the widget: Learn About Me

Adding Twitter Badge  We’ll upload an image to your media gallery and link the image to your Twitter account (or a Twitter account).  HTML learned:  img src – image tag, required src and altrequired src and alt  a href – anchor tag for hyperlinks, internal or external internal or external

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Credits  Kathy E  Creative Commons: share-and- share alike, non-commercial, attribution