Wordpress quickstart
- 1. Creating a simple website with WordPress
- 9. Section 2: Make some pages (not posts) •What’s the difference? • Posts are more suited to blogs • Pages are more suited to websites
- 10. Go to Pages… Add new
- 11. (1) Give your page a title (2) Type some text (3) Publish (Always remember to click Publish or if you are making changes then Update – I won’t tell you every time) (4) See what you have made (5) Make a few more pages. Call one of them something like HOME then look at your All Pages section
- 12. 1) Hover your mouse over Sample Page and click Quick Edit 2) Set status to draft. This means the sample page is not published, but is still there for you to look at. Remember to always click Update (I won’t tell you every time) 3) Go into Quick edit for all your other pages except for your home page and make the homepage the parent 4) And you probably want to turn off comments on them too
- 13. 1) To add links within a page, select some text 2) Click the link button 2) Click the link button 3) Copy and paste a URL or… 4) Choose one of your own pages 6) Click Add Link If it is a link within your site, leave this blank If it is to another website, tick this box
- 14. To add individual pictures not in a slideshow or lightbox format, use this button
- 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4THpbKZ0Zg Use this to insert a YouTube video Paste URL here
- 17. To create a simple gallery click here Select images Then click here
- 18. Adjust settings to your taste Then click here
- 19. Click the pencil to edit the galley settings
- 20. Section 3: Now we need to make your homepage become the first thing that people see… … and sort out a few things: Sidebar Widgets Themes
- 21. 2) Go to static front page 3) Choose A static page 4) Choose whatever you called your homepage 1) Go to Appearance then Customise 5) Save and Publish 6) Close At any time you can click here to see how your site looks.
- 22. This is a sidebar. You probably don’t want all of these things. You can turn them off by going to… Appearance Then Widgets Then select the widget and delete Or just choose as theme with no sidebar and they will all disappear!
- 23. Section 3: Adjusting the theme … and sort out a few things: Sidebar Widgets Themes
- 24. Then Add New To change themes, go to Themes Install something you like Activate, then take a look at your site!
- 25. To add your own images to the theme and tailor your theme to your needs, go to Appearance then Customise
- 26. Every Wordpress theme has different settings, so you will have to experiment with them to get things as you want them. For example… This adjusts the header area I would pick a theme with as few options here as possible to make your first site easier.