What is WordPress? WordPress is a tool that allows one to design a blog (i.e. web log) or an entire e-portfolio. Baylor University uses a WordPress-based blogging service which is hosted by Edublogs, a company that specializes in large-scale WordPress implementations for colleges and universities. This platform allows you to select themes, plug-ins, headers, and widgets to personalize your WordPress site. A blog is a contraction of log”. Blogs can be started and maintained free of charge, or can by “web sponsored financially by the blogger, a university, a corporation, or a group. A blog allows everyone a chance to promote, research, write articles, build links (blogrolls), exchange ideas and best practices, and interact with others on personal, professional, corporate, political, and social issues and topics. The opening page is called the front page. Blogs mainly consists of two items: Posts designed for content that rarely designed for content that varies changes often do not have a timestamp have a timestamp; automatically arranged in reverse chronological Others don’t update order Blogs/websites may have many pages others can contribute content have many posts but only one cannot be assigned categories or tags page “post” can be assigned categories or tags Developing your WordPress Site, go to: Viewing your Wordpress Site, go to: blogs.baylor.edu blogs.baylor.edu/yourloginname Sample “Theme” Sample “Page”
What is WordPress? WordPress is a tool that allows one to design a blog (i.e. web log) or an entire e-portfolio. Baylor University uses a WordPress-based blogging service which is hosted by Edublogs, a company that specializes in large-scale WordPress implementations for colleges and universities. This platform allows you to select themes, plug-ins, headers, and widgets to personalize your WordPress site. A blog is a contraction of “web log”. Blogs can be started and maintained free of charge, or can by sponsored financially by the blogger, a university, a corporation, or a group. A blog allows everyone a chance to promote, research, write articles, build links (blogrolls), exchange ideas and best practices, and interact with others on personal, professional, corporate, political, and social issues and topics. The opening page is called the front page. Blogs mainly consists of two items: Posts designed for content that rarely changes do not have a timestamp Others don’t update Blogs/websites may have many pages cannot be assigned categories or tags designed for content that varies often have a timestamp; automatically arranged in reverse chronological order others can contribute content have many posts but only one “post” page can be assigned categories or tags Developing your WordPress Site, go to: blogs.baylor.edu Viewing your Wordpress Site, go to: blogs.baylor.edu/yourloginname Sample “Theme” Sample “Page”
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