Restricting Access To A Post or Page

If you want to restrict access to a WordPress blog post or page, then you should password-enable the page. To do this:

Using Categories To Organize Content

When you create your first blog post in WordPress, there is one “category” option (over there on the top right of the administrative screen). We don’t ever want to use that default to categorize a post!

Categories are not to be confused with “tags” (a more modern, Web 2.0 concept). Think of categories as major subject headings. If you are in one of my classes, chances are you will be a discussion leader at some point in time. Thus I have you create a category, “discussion leader.”

Setting Up A WordPress Blog

To set up your account, go to WordPress.com. Follow the “create account” links. You’ll need to use a “real” e-mail address Life is easier for me if you use your UWNetID as your login, because it means the blog URL (address) is UWNetID.wordpress.com.

Changing the Home Page

WordPress makes it easy to set up your blog to look and act like a regular website. Here’s how to change the home from from the “blog” to a static page.

Creating A Link In Word Press

(1) Log in to your WordPress blog
(2) Review these instructions from WordPress
(3) Watch this Quicktime Movie – From UW or watch the YouTube clip (smaller screen size)

That’s all there is to it!

How To Upload An Image In WP

This post is “how to” insert an image into a WordPress blog post.

First, if the image is not yet hosted on a webserver somewhere, you need to upload it to WordPress or to an image hosting site such as Flickr or PhotoBucket.

The “upload to WordPress” is easy — look at the bottom of your blog post window: there is an “upload” tab. Browse your harddrive and find your image (this is web-based FTP). Be sure your cursor is where you want the image to appear when you do this step! [Note: you have only 50 MB of free space at WordPress -- if you're going to use images frequently, you'll want to host them on an external website.]