Docs List

The Main Dish – Creating and Managing Content in WordPress

Getting Started

• Log In
• Create a New Page
• Update a Page
• Add a New Page to the Main Menu
• Proof Your Work
• WordPress Terminology

Editing Content

• Audio:
  • Insert or Embed an Audio File in a Page or Post
• Images:
  • Crop an Image Inside WordPress
  • Image Galleries
  • Insert an Image in a Page or Post
• Links:
  • Link Basics
  • Link to Files Stored on Your Site (Microsoft Office, PDF files)
    • Update a File Already Stored and Linked on Your Site
  • Link to Files Stored on Box
• Text:
  • Editing Tips – Using Microsoft Word with WordPress
•  Video:
  • Insert or Embed a Video in a Page or Post

Organizing Content

• Managing Uploaded Images and Other Files with the Media Library
• Using the WP Media Folder Plugin to Enhance the Media Library

Side Dishes – Adding Additional Features to Your Site

• Add a Directory
• Add a Background (a.k.a.watermark) Image to an Individual Page
• ♠ ACE – the Advanced Content Editor – How to Create Fancy Homepages
  • Analyzing the CALS Homepage – an Example of ACE
• Collapse and Expand Blocks of Text with the Accordian Feature
• Create a Slideshow on the Homepage of Your Site
• Create Forms Using Gravity Forms
• Customizing A UW-Madison Theme with the Customizer
• Managing Menus

Troubleshooting

• Where Did My Website Menu Go?
• Why Aren’t My Changes Showing?

ARS

• Slides from WordPress Training at Kemp Research Station – 10-18-2017