Customizing Wordpress

The 1st step is to install WordPress onto the site. After installing WordPress to your domain, you have to set your page. The site you use to customize your page is your site name/blog/wp-admin. After this, you can go to Widgets and install Meta, Recent Posts, Custom Menu, Archives, Categories, Links, Pages, and Recent Comments by dragging them to the main sidebar to activate them. The meta is really important because it allows you to log in/out as an administrator of the site. Then go to themes and pick the visual representation of your site. There are currently 2 themes up now but you can develop a brand new theme or customize the themes. The next step is go to plug ins and delete the Hello Dolly. There is a themes gallery within the plugins as well.

Wordpress is more than a blog platform. It is a platform that is utilized to host the the blogs, comments, posts and set up a web presences that has many elements which work together to create an overall theme. The theme is just one aspect of the set up for the overall presentation of the site. Another important aspect is how the information is presented on the site. For instance, the placement of the posts within the site can make the difference between a professional, clean cut site and a casual, relaxed, simpler site. For example, the font can be customized within your theme on Wordpress,to be more clear and fun- if need be or set an authoritarian tone for a professional page highlighting your best assets and your authority based on your experiences and education.

Wordpress has many different elements to it that allows one to create an overall professional or casual presence. The presence is similar to a thesis statement of the paper-it encompasses every aspect of the site. It would be a good idea to write up the motivation behind creating your site in a sentence or two and use that as a gauge of whether or not aspect fit into your web presence. For example, if the website is created for professional reasons but the nature of the job is very informal- it is important for the aspects to collectively reflect that balance between being informal and professional for that setting. Another idea to consider, is looking at sample sites of people doing a site for similar reasons and how they set up that site, using them as a template for ideas for the way you want your site to look.

One of the features of WordPress that is useful for expressing the logic behind a site, is the initial blog post. The Hello World message can be customized to be a preview for the subject matter of the site. The thesis statement mentioned earlier can be put here or a description which entails something personal about you as an author that you think is important for your audience to know. Another aspect to consider is the fonts for the theme. The font and font color can diminish or add to the overall theme. For example, the defaults may not fit with the image you are trying to present, so feel free to customize it to your needs.