eLearning For Teachers: Di Goodman (Epoff)

1. Bookmark your blog url

2. Record your url, username and password

4. Log in to WordPress

5. The Dashboard will open

6. Click Change Theme or click on the Design tab

7. Select a theme

8. Click Visit Site to check it out

9. Scroll down to the Site Admin tab and this will take you back into the backend of your blog where you can edit and blog

10. Click the Write tab and a new post window will appear

11. Give your post a title

12. Write something

13. Format it using the format options

14. To add (upload) an image, it must be a small web sized image, so you may need to resize it first and save it to your hard drive before you upload to to the blog. See my post on Resizing images for the internet (use the search function on my blog).

15. To upload, click the Add New Media button in the format pane

16. Dont use the Upload button, go to the Browser Uploader link instead

17. Browse to find your files on your computer

18. Click Upload

Themes

Once you have your blog up and running, you may wish to find a theme that is more ‘you’, or suits the purpose of your blog.

For my blogging workshop participants, these sites have a host of WordPress themes that you can download free:

Blog!Oh!Blog!

wphemesbox

You can do a search on Google and find more

Email me any that you would like to try and I will get Andrew to upload them. Once that happens, you can select the theme from the Design Menu when you open your blog

Check that any theme you find is compatible with WordPress 2.6 by going to the following WordPress link. Search alphabetically for your theme. If its not there, find another! This site is also a good way to find a theme but its a slow way of doing it.

Themes/Theme Compatibility/2.6

Some tutorials for you to try

This post will help the participants in my beginners Blogging workshops. Try these tutorials when you are having a play with your blog.

There are a number of good free WordPress tutorial sites on the net. Note: we use WordPress 2.6 version. If you search for tutorials on the net, make sure they are for version 2.6

Open your favourite web browser, check you are connected to the internet and try these:

The following tutorials are screencasts: audio visual tutorials.

iThemes Tutorials

The following screencasts are from the Likoma Design website

How to Edit a Simple Post

Uploading Images and Captions

The following site has some comprehensive information about the features of WordPress. It will take you some time to read through it, however its a good way to learn all about your blog and what the various buttons and menus can do. It doesnt contain tutorials but does provide a concrete background to blogging

The author describes it as a beginners site:

Blogs@Baruch