Wordpress Tutorial
WordPress is a personal publishing platform for hosting your personal college; it is easy to use, and very flexible. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites.
WordPress has intuitive administration for creating and managing your content, which anyone can handle. In WordPress you will be able to compose and publish content on your website with just one click! You can easily customize the look of your website.
First Steps With WordPress
Let’s take a step-by-step tour through your WordPress site and learn about how all the different functions work and how to make your new site your own.
So, the first thing to do is:
Log In!
Go to: http://people.ehe.ohio-state.edu and click on the ‘Log In’ link. Enter your EHE username and password to log in.
If you find you are having problems logging in, please feel free to contact our help line 7-TECH (8324).
If this is the first time logging into your site; it may take a few minutes as the system generates everything you’ll need to manage your website. After you click ‘log in’. You should be in the administration section of your site. Here you can quickly go on to write a page or post, manage your site and user profile, see which websites are linking to yours, view WordPress news, and see comments that are waiting for moderation. You can also change the site design by selecting one of the many themes available to you.
Structuring Your Website
One of the most important things to get right with your website is the structure of its content. This can make an incredible difference to the usability of the site – do it well and users will be able to navigate your content easily and quickly. Fortunately, with WordPress the navigation of your site will usually follow a fairly standard route.
There are a few suggestions which will help you:
- Categorize and tag your content so that it’s clear and easy to find without resorting to the search tool. For example, if the main source of traffic to your site is interested in your stories about learner education, then a category called learner education, along with perhaps some relevant tags against posts such as ‘learning styles’ and ‘study habits’ could be the way to go.
- Edit your content carefully for spelling, grammar and suitable content. When you publish – whether it’s within a magazine or on the internet you take a certain level of responsibility for the information you disseminate.
- The front page of your site should contain at least some information about you and what you do – this can help not only site visitors to know what it is you’re there for, but will also help search engines to find the content on your website.
Understanding the difference between pages and posts
In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” “Research Interests? etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
To learn more about Pages and Post check out these quick how to’s:
