WHAT IS WORDPRESS? -wordpress is an open source content management software. It allows users to build dynamic websites and blog.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Blog– is a part of a website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, description of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Dashboard– is a first screen which will be seen when you log into the administration area of your blog which will display the overview of the website.
My Site– it is a lists of all the sites for which a user is an administrator.
Publish– is used to make the post available to all the users wherein every user can view that particular post.
Theme– modifies the way the site is displayed, without modifying the underlying software.
Website– is a set of related web pages containing content media including text, video, music, audio, images, etc.
How to create website using wordpress.com?
1. Create your WordPress account. Ensure that you won’t forget your account. You will using this every time you edit your website.
2. Go to wordpress.com
3. Create a project
4. Choose a theme for your website
5. Set the domain name of your website
6. Verify your account through the email you have provided during the registration. Verify by clicking the button. Then you will be redirected to the dashboard.
Adding text-based and image type of informartion to Page Content
1. Open your wordpress account
2. Click on “My Site” page
3. Choose “Pages”
4. On the right panel, click on the ellipses button along page title which you would like to add.
5. You may opt to copy and existing file based from your copy-writes and analysis of data
6. Also, you may use the page elements presented below to enhance page content
7. Click Update when done.
Adding pictures in the gallery page
1. Open your wordpress account
2. Click on “My Site” page
3. Choose “Pages”
4. Proceed to Gallery, left click then select edit
5. Use image tool to insert images
6. Create at least 3 rows for displaying the set of images
7. Insert 5 images in each row by choosing “Add New”
8. Choose your desired presentation layout. Set the column to 5
9. Insert a caption for each picture by going to edit tab
10. Click on “Save and Update” button
Adding Multimedia widget to your website
1. Go to modules panel
2. In “themes” module, click the “customize”
3. Scroll down from navigation the choose Widgets Sidebar
4. Select Gallery. In style property, choose slideshow
5. Add images to gallery and select multiple images, which will be used for video clip
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