setting up a blog with wordpress.com jan 2014 class

Crea%ng a Blog with WordPress.com

Eileen Lonergan h9p://www.eileenlonergan.com

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•  We are working with WordPress.com to discuss blogs. If you want a self hosted website you will need to use WordPress.org.

•  Visit h9p://www.eileenlonergan.com/wordpress-‐org-‐vs-‐

wordpress-‐com for an overview of the difference between the two.

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•  A blog can be thought of as a magazine or newspaper ar%cle.

•  Blogs can have many authors who contribute or be the work of just one blogger.

•  Readers can add their comments to ar%cles, which encourages feedback to the blogging process.


•  A single entry on your blog. •  The format can be: – Wri9en –  Video – Audio –  Images – Or a combina%on of all of the above.

•  Entries are organized sequen%ally by date, the latest appearing at the top of the page.


•  WordPress is an open source blogging tool. •  Open Source means that the basic soTware is free and code is shared among developers.

•  It began in 2003 and as of 2013 more than 60 million websites have been built using WordPress.


•  Sign Up Process: h9p://wordpress.com

•  You need to give your blog an address & name. •  The address could be AwesomeBlog.WordPress.com •  The name could be Eileen Lonergan’s Awesome Blog

•  You can choose to have your site visible to all, crawled by search engines or set to private.

•  Note: crawled by search engines means that Google, Bing and the

other engines will comb through your site and poten%ally list it in search results.


•  Check your email and confirm that you want to create the blog.

•  This will bring you into your Dashboard, which is command central for your blog.


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1.  Give the post a %tle. 2.  The next large box is where you add the text. 3.  The sec%on above the text box has op%ons

for styling. The op%ons are very similar to a Word document.

4.  If you click the li9le camera icon that says Add Media you can add an image into your page or post.



The right hand side of the page is where you can save your post or page as a draT, preview what you have done or publish.


1.   Bold 2.  Italic 3.  Strike-‐through 4.  Unordered list (bullet points): 5.  Ordered list 6.  Blockquote (a way of displaying quoted text; each theme will style this differently.)

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. 7.  Align LeT 8.  Align Center 9.  Align Right 10.  Insert/edit link 11.  Unlink 12.  Insert More tag 13.  Proofread/Spell Check 14.  Toggle Distrac%on Free Wri%ng (this removes the visual editor and you will only see your text on

the page.) 15.  Show/Hide Kitchen sink (enables the second row of edi%ng icons)


1.  Style – various formalng styles defined by your theme

2.  Underline 3.  Align full 4.  Select text color – change the text color 5.  Paste as Plain Text 6.  Paste from Word 7.  Remove formalng 8.  Insert custom character 9.  Outdent – move text further leT 10.  Indent – move text further right 11.  Undo – undo your last ac%on 12.  Redo – redo your last ac%on 13.  Help – display some informa%on about using

the editor, as well as keyboard shortcuts.



Go to WordPress.com

Tell your friends where to find you.


•  Visit my blog: h9p://www.eileenlonergan.com/ar%cles •  I have set up a page:

h9p://www.eileenlonergan.com/etl-‐blog-‐class I will have informa%on from class and you can post your ques%ons or %ps to share with the group.

•  WordPress.com support h9p://en.support.wordpress.com/ •  YouTube •  WordPress TV: h9p://wordpress.tv/ •  h9p://www.expand2web.com/blog/ •  h9p://learn.wordpress.com/ •  I posted to my blog, now what?

Gelng People to Read Your Blog


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