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WordPress

Prof. dr Angelina Njeguš

Belgrade, 2014

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Agenda

Pages vs Posts

Categories

Create a post

Adding tags

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Understanding the differences between pages and posts

Before start working on your site, it is important to have a clear understanding of the difference between pages and posts:

Pages are usually those which have a static purpose in life.

- For example: About page,Résumé page or Contact forms.

- Some people build entire sites with just Pages – this is especially the case for sites with little need for dynamic content and is very popular with small businesses who simply want an online brochure.

Posts usually contain semantically and chronographically arranged information

- for example: news reports, event results, and of course blog entries!

- The semantic structure is defined by categories and tags, and whilst making it easy for people to navigate your site will also help search engines to understand the content of your site and so improve the relevance of search results.

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How to create categories?

Categories are a very convenient way to organize your posts.

– You can have parent and child categories making hierarchical arrangement of your posts possible.

– One post can be into more than one category.

To create new categories, you need to access the Posts -> Catgories

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Example of categories

• Categories provide a helpful way to group related posts together, and to quickly tell readers what a post is about.

• Categories also make it easier for people to find your content.

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Creating and managing your categories

Organizing categories can be one of the greatest influences in how easy it is to navigate your site.

On the left side of the page you will see a tab that allows you to create categories.

Fill in the category name, its slug (will be used in the category URLs) and the Add New Category button.

Create category Events, and sub-categories Courses and Conferences

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To begin go to Posts -> Add New.

On this page you will see the posts editor. The most important parts of this page are:

– Post Title - enter the title of your post in this field. On your theme it will be shown above your content.

– Post Content - you can use the WYSIWYG editor to add the actual content of your post. Note that it has two tabs - Visual (use the editor to format your text) and Text (add your HTML code directly).

Creating your first post

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Meaning of the menu

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Adding the Content

Let’s make this a short article about launching the website. Place the text below into it the text box, with the title Our First Event:

We are excited to announce the launching of our new websitedeveloped in WordPress. We will be producing news and articles aboute-tourism, and destination management systems. Our goal is to createthe community of experts and practitioners in these fields.

We would like to invite you to take a look!

We also ask that you share this with your friends, and your feedbackis appreciated.

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Adding links to your posts

• To create a link in text, highlight the text you wish to link, and then click on the link icon in the editor

• Title gives meaning to the link and will show on hovering over the link

• Choose whether or not to open the link in a newwindow/tab or stay in the current window/tab.

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Adding images to your posts

Note: On most servers you will be limited to images of between 2MB and 8MB in size, so if you have a very high resolution digital camera you might need to resize the images before uploading them.

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Image options

When you select an image, the details for it are shown in the right column, such as:– Title – this is the title of the image.

– Caption – the caption text for the image. This text appears under the image when it is posted on the website.

– Alternative Text – a brief description of the image. The alt text is much more important to blind users than the title. Do make sure it is not a repeat of the title.

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Assigning posts to categories

Once you have the category structure created, you can add posts to categories.

Place a checkbox in the category you want to assign it to.

Check the category: Events

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Adding tags to the post

Tags provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about.

Add tags: Website, Events, Destination, Management, Institute

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Publish and Preview

Scroll back up and press Publish, and your article is on the website!

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Set the page to display all posts

Create the page: Events

Open Settings – Reading

Under Front page displays – Posts page: Select Events

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Set the menu

Appearance – Menus

Under Pages select Events and Add to Menu

Under Categories check Courses and Conferences and Add to Menu

Adjust Courses and Conferences as sub items of Events

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Take advantage of Tags

• Tags group related posts together on your site

• Assigning tags to your posts increases the chance that others will see them on the topic pages in the Reader.

• For starters, you can enable a Tag Cloud Widget in your sidebar or footer so your readers can quickly find your content based on your most popular tags.

The bigger the word, the more posts youhave published about it

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Managing Tags

To Add New Tag and manage existing ones click on Posts -> Tags in the dashboard.

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Adding Tag Cloud widget

• Go to Appearance – Widgets • Find Tag Cloud and move it to the Main Sidebar or Content Sidebar

• Refresh and click on some tag

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Take your site mobile

• If you want your blog to look good on mobile devices, then go to “Enable Mobile Theme” box, found in the Appearance >> Mobile section of your dashboard.

• When mobile themes are enabledyou have two options:

– A responsive version of your theme -A responsive theme is one that automatically adjusts to the size of the screen, shaping itself so your blog still looks like your blog but is fast and mobile-friendly.

– Minileven: your theme is not responsive - Minileven is a version of Twenty Eleven theme designed to be clean and quick on phones.

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Exercise 1: Add the following post

When you click on Continue reading to open full text

Provide the following link: https://wordpress.org/download/

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Result

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Exercise 2: Add the post