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How to set up a blog using WordPress.com - all free very detailed step by step guide.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Go to WordPress.com
Tell your friends where to find you.
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• 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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