Using the WordPress Dashboard
Get Help
- Documentation and guides from WordPress.org
Creating and Editing Posts and Pages
- Text box
- Visual
- HTML
- Creating New Posts
- Editing Posts
- Creating New Pages
- Editing Pages
- Categories
Appearance – Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Layout
- Two-column
- Three-column
- Themes
- Issue: Color backgrounds complicate transparency
Adding Images and Hyperlinks
- Images
- Upload to Media Library
- Use URL in HTML
Managing Users
- Need username and password from FDU WordPress administrator
- FDU’s Terms of Use and Sign up page: http://community.fdu.edu/
- User log in – Meta section of sidebar
- Comments/discussion
- Settings–>Discussion
- “Threshold” Moderation-First comment must pass moderation, but subsequent comments post directly.
- Settings–>Discussion