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Fact of life #1 - We don't read pages. We scan them.
- Wordpress was created primarily to be a blog but is now widely used as a website builder
- There are three major components to the WP content areas
- Page - Static pages...generally home page, About page, Contact page etc
- Post - dynamic and frequently updated. Generally, portfolio pages, events and of course blog. Can be organized in categories
- Category - Specific posts can be assigned and presented as sections. Can be linked on the menu
- Tags - Similar to category. Can be linked by keywords. Can be linked on the menu.
- There are also dynamic components that are consistent throughout the site (some can be turned on and off
- Sidebar
- Header
- Footer
- There are also dynamic components that can be placed throught the layout that can perform a variety of functions
- Widgets
- Plugins
- The look and feel of each of these compents as well as the overall layout can be controlled by CSS
- Anatomy of a basic Wordpress Page
- Here is a list of housekeeping to get you started:
- Settings
- General
- Update Site title if necessary and Change the tagline
- Change the main email
- Change to Mountain Standard time (Denver under America)
- Reading
- Change to either Static page for a fixed home page or keep as a dynamic post listing
- Determine how many posts to be displayed on one page
- Discussion
- Turn off Allow people to post comments on new articles (unless you want to get spammed to death). Blogging requires some amount of security
- You can turn on discussion in individual posts
- Turn off Allow people to post comments on new articles (unless you want to get spammed to death). Blogging requires some amount of security
- Media
- Determine global sizes of large, medium, small images that Wordpress will automatically display
- Permalinks
- Set to post name...otherwise your page names will not look good
- General
- Get rid of default widgets
- Appearance>Widgets
- Each theme has their own widget scheme (Usually sidebars and footer). 2019 only has Footer
- Clear out any widgets you don't want
- Appearance>Widgets
- Install Classic Editor plugin if you need to
- Plugins>Add new and choose Classic Editor
- Necessary for all pre 5.0 Wordpress sites
- Settings