Workshop on Setting Up (free) Wordpress site September 28, 2016

2. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SITE
Example: Creating an Online Teaching Portfolio

3. GOALS OF TODAY’S WORKSHOP
• Part 1: Create a Wordpress Site
• Part 2: Customize your site.
• Example: Modify your site to
create a Teaching Portfolio
• Part 3: Customize your blog
• Part 3: Embedding code in your blog
• Part 5: Delete a Wordpress Site

4. Wordpress example site:
https://librarianrafia.wordpress.com/

5. PART 1: CREATE A
WORDPRESS SITE

6. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Go to
https://wordpr
ess.com/
• Click on Get
Started
• For more help,
go to
Wordpress
Support

7. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Go though
the steps
to create
you site
• There are 5
steps
• Plus
creating
you
account

8. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• We will be
modifying
the
standard
options, so
choose
whatever
you like
during
steps 1,2
and 3

9. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• At step 4
Choose
your
Domain.
(This
determines
your url)
• Think
about how
people will
be
searching
for you,
consider
using your
full name.

10. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Choose a
free option

11. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Choose the
free plan.

12. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Create
your
account
• Your
username
does not
have to be
the same
as your
domain
name

13. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• You will
need to
verify your
email
address

14. PART 2: : CUSTOMIZE
YOUR SITE.
Example: Modify your site to create a Teaching
Portfolio

15. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• At ‘My Sites’
go to
Personalize
• Change your
theme to
match the
theme on the
sample site
• Twenty
Thirteen

16. CREATINGATEACHINGPORTFOLIOWITHWORDPRESS
• Log on
• Go to the
dashboard
for your
site

17. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Scroll to
the bottom
• Click on
Create a
Page.

18. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• What do
you want
to name
the page?
• Add text

19. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Notice how
the Title of
the page
gives you
the
permalink
name

20. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Click
Publish
• Modify
Visibility if
you don’t
want it to
be
searchable

21. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• You can
always go
back and
edit

22. PART 3: CUSTOMIZE
YOUR BLOG

23. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• You do not
want
Nothing
Found to
be the first
thing
people see
• Click on
customize

24. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Click on
Static
Front Page

25. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• Under
Static
Front
Page,
choose the
page that
you want
to be your
home
page.
• Click Save
and
Publish

26. GETTINGSTARTEDWITHWORDPRESS
• My About
page is
now the
first thing
people see.

27. ADDINGSOCIALMEDIA
 You have a few options in regards to
adding your social media account
 You can add a link to your social media
account on your about page
 If you want to highlight a specific item in
you social media account, you can look
for the embed option
 If you want to feature your social media
account it ins entirety, look for the
option of inserting a widget

28. PART 4: EMBEDDING
CODE IN YOUR BLOG

29. EMBEDDINGCODE
• When
you are
editing a
page
you can
click on
the
HTML
view to
add
code

30. PART 3: ADD A
WIDGET TO YOUR
BLOG
We will use Twitter as the example

31. WHATISAWIDGET?
 What is a Widget?
 “In computing, a web widget is a
software widget for the web.” via
 How to add a Widget
 The rules may be different for different
platforms
 We are going to look at adding Twitter
Timeline Widget

32. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• Open your
Wordpress
blog
• Click on
the
Customize
option on
your
Wordpress
blog

33. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• We are
going to
add a
widget

34. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• Choose
where on
your blog
to want to
add the
widget

35. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• Search for
the Twitter
Widget
•

36. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• Select the
Twitter
Widget
•

37. ADDINGAWIDGETTOWORDPRESS
• Customize
and add
your
twitter
username
•

38. PART 5: DELETE OR
HIDE A WORDPRESS
SITE

39. DELETINGYOURWORDPRESS
• Click on
settings to
customize
your
visibility or
to delete
your site
(this
cannot be
undone)

40. DELETINGYOURWORDPRESS
• You can
also
choose to
make you
site hidden

41. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Rafia Mirza
@librarianrafia
Digital Humanities Librarian
rafia@uta.edu
Questions?