E-Training: Wordpress For Supervision

1. E-Training: Wordpress For Supervision Rosseni Din & Faisal KZ

2. Module 1 Why wordpress? Getting Start

3. Great support • Simple • Easy setup • Huge community • Constant improvement Why Wordpress?

4. Blogging tool – Blog in Plain English • Publishing platform • CMS • Open source – Free Wordpress

5. Archival postings • Interactivity • Categorical postings • Multi-ownership • Private site • Locked postings • Integration with others tools (e.g. Google Docs, Youtube) For Supervision

6. Register 0:00-08:00 • Write a post 08:00-13:00 • Write a page • Categories • Private blog • Themes • Widgets • Comments • Integrating other tools Creating one

7. Get started Register with Wordpress.com

8. 1. Head to WordPress.com and click the orange sign up button:

9. 2. Choose a domain name for your first blog (you can add others later if you like). This is the unique address that people will visit to check out your blog.

10. 3. If that blog address is available, you’ll see a green check mark. You’ll also see the option to purchase a custom domain name (or you can use yourblogname.wordpress.com for free).

11. 4. Next, choose a unique username that will identify you in the WordPress.com community. You’ll use this to log into your blog.

12. 5. Now it’s time to think up a password. You’ll need to enter the same password twice, and the little “strength” bar will tell you if you’ve chosen a strong password or not.

13. 6. Next up, add the email address you’d like to associate with your account. Be sure to use your primary email — if you ever forget your WordPress.com account password, you won’t be able to reset it if you can’t access the email account listed here.

14. 7. Now select the language that you’ll be blogging in.

15. 8. Now click the signup button. If you’ve chosen to purchase a custom domain name, you’ll be directed to domain registration and payment next.

16. 9. You’re almost done! Next, head to your inbox, find the signup confirmation email from WordPress.com, and click the blog activation link.

17. 10. That’s it! Now you have your very own WordPress.com blog. Next you’ll be taken to the dashboard, where you can change your site’s settings and start creating content.

18. Module 2 Getting Acquainted Post & Page

19. Get Acquainted Explore the Dashboard

20. If you just signed up and activated your WordPress.com account, you’ll be taken directly to a welcome screen in your dashboard. • To take a quick peek at how your new blog currently appears to the outside world, click the title of your blog in the top left corner of the screen. (If you have a private blog, only you can see it.)

21. You’ll see something like this, with an auto-generated post titled “Hello world!” and a few widgets in the right sidebar. • Now head back to the dashboard so that you can get acquainted with how to customize your blog’s appearance and start publishing content.

22. Once you have an account, you can use the toolbar at the top of the screen for quick access to your blog’s dashboard while you’re signed in:

23. This is your dashboard, where you can access all the powers of your blog:

24. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the menus here, don’t worry – you only need to know your way around a few key parts of the dashboard to start publishing content and personalizing your blog’s appearance. • As you get more familiar with WordPress.com and want to extend your blog in new ways, we have support documents that explain each of the dashboard menus, so you can learn at your own pace, and get answers whenever you need them.

25. We recommend that you take a minute to poke around the various dashboard menus, then head to Settings > General at the bottom. • Here you can change the title and tagline for your site (as often as you like), and adjust other general settings. Go ahead and update this section now.

26. If you’d like to change your site’s privacy settings, you can do that next from Settings > Privacy. • Once you’ve saved the changes to your settings, feel free to spend some more time getting acquainted with the dashboard menus. You can’t break anything, and if you make any mistakes, we can help. • If you’d like to move content from an old blog to your new blog, it’s easy, even if the old one isn’t on WordPress.com.

27. Get Focused Choose Your Topic

28. Here are four questions to help you narrow it down: 1. What’s your goal? To document your travels? To share your passion? To inform? To entertain? 2. What topics are you most interested in? Travel? Technology? Pop culture? Politics? 3. What’s your perspective? Are you a movie critic? A clothing designer? A pastry chef? 4. Who’s your target audience? Film buffs? Fashionistas? Foodies? If you like, use your answers to the above questions to write up a mission statement to help guide you as you plan for future posts. So what’s your focus going to be?

29. Pro-forma? • Syllabus? • Course outline? • Introduction? • About.me? What I need to have?

30. Get Customized Personalized Your Site’s Appearance

31. Much like every magazine has its own unique layout and design, so do blogs. • The theme you choose will determine your blog’s colours, fonts, header design, and number of columns. • There are over 120 attractive themes to choose from, and we’re always adding more. Find the right theme for you

32. Remember to keep your blog’s look and feel consistent with your Big Idea. • This will help visitors to quickly determine if they’ve found what they’re looking for. • It may be tempting to choose a theme just because you like the aesthetics, but don’t forget about functionality • Also keep in mind that you can spice up your blog with photos and other media later. • For now, focus on finding the theme that best suits your Big Idea.

33. When choosing your theme, you should also consider what kind of tone you want to set for your blog. • If your blog is business-related, you’ll probably want something minimal and professional-looking, like Coraline. • But if you’re looking for something more playful, perhaps for a blog about crafts, a theme like Liquorice might be a better fit. • To narrow down your theme search, try using the Feature Filters:

34. Keep in mind that you can change your theme any time, so don’t worry if you’re unsure about your choice right now.

35. When you find a theme you like, activate it directly from the Theme Showcase by selecting a theme and clicking the activate button on the top right corner of the page:

36. If you prefer to preview themes before activating them, you can do so from the Appearance > Themes area of your dashboard:

37. Want to make your site 100% unique to you? • Get a custom domain name (such as yoursite.com instead of yoursite.wordpress.com) with the Domain Mapping upgrade, and incorporate custom fonts and CSS on your site with theCustom Design upgrade.

38. You can add all kinds of extra features and content to the side of your blog’s main column (we call this spot the “sidebar”), and widgets make that really easy. • They’re little one-shot applications that add specific, bite-sized pieces of content that might interest your readers, like your latest Twitter updates, a list of your blog’s recent posts or comments, or links to your latest photos on Flickr. • Here’s what a blog with the Recent Posts, Twitter, Text/HTML, Blog Subscription, and Archives widgets looks like: Enhance your site with widgets

39. To activate a widget, go to Appearance > Widgets in your dashboard. • Drag the desired widget over to the Sidebar module on the right. • Be sure to hit save and close when you’re done editing a widget’s settings.

40. Get Published Create Your First Post

41. While publishing posts is the primary way to share content on your site, you can also add additional pages to make it look and feel more like a traditional website. So what’s the difference between posts and pages? Posts versus pages: What’s the difference?

42. Posts Pages Pages, on the other hand, are best suited for more timeless content that you want your visitors to be able to easily access, like your About Me or Contact sections. • Posts are what make your blog a blog — they’re servings of content, similar to journal entries, listed in reverse chronological order. Posts can be as short or as long as you like; some are as brief as Twitter updates, while others are the length of essays.

43. By default, all posts will appear on your blog’s front page, but you can also display specific posts on category pages (and do other nifty things) with our custom menus feature.

44. Click the New Post button on the right side of the toolbar (it appears on the top of your screen while you’re logged in to WordPress.com) and the post editor will slide open: Publish your first post

45. First, select the type of content you want to share (text, photo, video, quote, or link). • Use the Write a Post tab if you want to include multiple images in your post (or if you want to write a text-only post). If you just want to quickly share a single photo, select the Post a Photo tab. • Then write a title for the post in the space at the top. Think of your post title as a headline for a news article — the more detailed and captivating it is, the more readers it’s going to attract.

46. Click the kitchen sink icon if you’d like to enable additional text formatting options:

47. When the post is ready, choose the blog you want to post to (if you have more than one) using the drop-down menu below the post editor: • When you’re done, hit Publish Post. That’s it! Next you’ll have the option to view the post you just published.

48. If you decide that you’d like to go back and edit or delete a post, go to Posts > All Posts in your dashboard. Going back to edit posts

49. Here you’ll see a list of all of your posts. Clicking Edit under the name of a post will take you to the dashboard editor, where you can make changes. • To delete a post, click Trash. Learn more about the edit posts screen here.

50. The dashboard editor is pretty much the same as the editor that appears after clicking New Post in the top toolbar, but it also allows you to preview posts before publishing them, and schedule posts to publish at a later time, among other things. • To try it out, go to Posts -> Add New in the dashboard: The dashboard editor