Creating a simple website with WordPress

Section 1: Prep

Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way

Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and… …fill with content

Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and upload videos to YouTube.

Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and photoshop images to 72dpi.

Arrange your folders on your PC in the same way and Photoshop images to 72dpi.• This will save you web space and speed up the loading time of images

for visitors to your site. • Open images in Photoshop and resize to 72dpi and no more than

about 1000 pixels wide and 800 pixels high.• Either save a copy or make sure you are not editing your originals

Section 2: Make some

pages (not posts)

•What’s the difference?• Posts are more suited to blogs• Pages are more suited to websites

Go to Pages… Add new

(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

1) Hover your mouse over Sample Page

and click Quick Edit2) 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

1) To add links within a page, select some

text2) 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

To add individual pictures not in a

slideshow or lightbox format, use this button

Upload pictures

Choose

Insert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4THpbKZ0Zg

Use this to insert a YouTube video

Paste URL here

To create a simple gallery click here

Select images

Then click here

Adjust settings to your taste

Then click here

Click the pencil to edit the galley settings

Section 3: Now we need to

make your homepage

become the first thing that people

see…… and sort out a few things:Sidebar WidgetsThemes

2) Go to static front page

3) Choose A static page

4) Choose whatever you called your

homepage

1) Go to Appearancethen

Customise

5) Save and Publish

6) Close

At any time you can click here to see

how your site looks.

This is a sidebar. You probably don’t want all of these things.

You can turn them off by going to…

AppearanceThen

Widgets

Then select the widget and delete

Or just choose as theme with no sidebar and

they will all disappear!

Section 3: Adjusting the

theme

… and sort out a few things:Sidebar WidgetsThemes

Then Add New

To change themes, go to Themes

Install something

you like

Activate, then take a look at

your site!

To add your own images to the theme and tailor your theme to your needs, go to

Appearancethen

Customise

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.