Intermediate WordPress

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Intermediate WordPressGuide to Creating Your Social Media World

Gregory [email protected](623) 556-3616

Training Class

• CONNECTCONNECT• MINGLEMINGLE• LEARNLEARN


Agenda

Intermediate WordPress• Posting with Pictures and Video• Uploading Media• Linking Media• Creating Links Libraries• Changing Your Appearance with

Themes• Understand / Adding Widgets


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Log Into Your WordPress Account

We Start Here!


WordPress Dashboard

Here is where you Navigate around WordPress, posts, settings, media and more cool stuff


Review Your About Me Page

Looks just like a posting page


Let’s See Your Posts

Edit doesn’t appear until you hover


Create a Post

Post Title

Post Content

Edit Tools

Tags

Add Pictures, VideoPublishing

Categories


Insert a Picture from URL

Once you have decided what your blog post topic is, go look for pictures on Google. Using “images” on left.


Picture from URL

Click on the picture to see it better, then right click on it, find Properties, and right click again to find and select the URL.

Copy & Paste the URL into WordPress


Insert URL into Wordpress

Insert URL Here


Media Library


Add New Pictures to Library


Editing Pictures


Insert Media into Post

From Media Library

Choose a picture to insert into your post from the media library.


Edit/Advanced Edit

Justification and linksEdit picture size

Edit picture size


Insert into Post

Insert into post

Change Picture Size


Links Library – Add New Links


Add a Link

Name of Link (not URL)

Web Address, URL

Describe the site, link

Category of the link

Click to add link


Link Category & Targets

Add to an existing link category or add a new category

Target is: when the link is opened, how do you want it opened?Choose “_blank” – new window

Add relationship if desired


Widgets

Widget is a fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebars of your blog. Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your blog sidebar.

Available widgets: Image, Links, Text, Facebook Like, Flickr, Twitter & More

Let’s look at Link and Image widget


“Links” Widget


“Image” Widget


WordPress Theme Settings

Themes

Appearance Settings


Next Month – Intermediate WordPress

Advanced WordPress• Adding Icon Widgets

• Adding Facebook Widgets

• Leverging HTML

• Adding Pages

• Embeding HTML Video Source Code (YouTube Videos)

• Auto Sharing to other Social Media Sites

• Changing Page Headings and Colors

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