WordPress Setup

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Head to WordPress.com, and follow these steps.

Step 1: Select Education.

Step 2: Select Start with a blog.

Step 3: Select Skip for now at the bottom of the page.

Step 4: Enter a name for your site (netIDbch4503) and click Select next to the free option.

Step 5: Click Start with Free under the free option.

Step 6: Create your account.

Click Continue.

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Click Settings, scroll down to Privacy, and select Private.

Scroll to Personalize > Themes. Search for the Suits theme > Activate.

Click My Site at the top and select Customize next to Themes.

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Click Colors & Backgrounds. Click Palettes, and select the middle palette.

Click Manual, and select pick your own color at the bottom of this menu. Enter #660000 for maroon. Click the left arrow next to “Customizing Colors & Backgrounds” when finished.

Click Site Title and enter “Principles of Scientific Communication” as the site title and “by Your Name (netID)” as the tagline. Click the left arrow next to “Customizing Site Identity” to return to the menu.

Widgets

Click Widgets under the Appearance settings, and select Main Sidebar. Add the following widgets:

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Categories

Tag Cloud

Links.

To add a widget, click Add Widget and search for the widgets listed above. To remove, click the drop down arrow to expand a widget’s options, and select Remove.

Once the widgets are added, you have the ability to adjust and save the settings. Click Save & Publish when you are done with the settings.

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Click Posts > Categories and create the following categories: Article Reviews, Assignments, Journaling, and Reports.

Adding a New Post

Click Add New from the Posts section. Insert a title, a post, and select the “Uncategorized” category. Also, add “welcome” to the tag section. Click Publish.

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Click Links > All Links. WordPress automatically populates the blogroll with links. These can be deleted by clicking the checkbox next to name, selecting Bulk Actions > Delete, and clicking Apply.

Adding New Links

Click Add New and fill in the following information:

Name

Ask-a-Librarian / MSU Libraries

Address

http://library.msstate.edu/askalibrarian

Select _blank in the Target section (leave everything else blank/unchecked), and click the blue Add Link button at the top r ight.

Repeat these steps to add the following links:

Name

BCH Department

Address

http://biochemistry.msstate.edu

Name

MSU Library

Address

http://library.msstate.edu

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Pages are different from posts in that they are static and are added to your menu bar and not the blog feed. To see a list of your pages, click Pages on the dashboard. Select All Pages.

When you mouse over a page’s title, you see options for Edit, Quick Edit, Trash, and View. Click Edit under the About page.

Edit your page and click Update.