Create a main navigational menu for your site. At the minimum the main menu items should be: Home – back to the home page About Us menu with three options underneath from your Pages Homework Contact Us Link the location to the appropriate spot Create an admin menu that is linked to a secondary menu…

Customizing a theme means to change elements of the theme to fit your design.  This can be everything from the header to the colors to where the menus are located. To get started, you can access this via the frontend or the backend. Frontend – if you are logged in – you’ll see Customize in…

How to install a Theme? On the dashboard – click on Appearance -> Themes. Click on Add New How to Install A Free Theme? A grid of themes will be displayed. You can search through themes or sort by various options by using the Search themes box… Hover over the one you want, and click…

What is a Plugin? A plugin is a chunk of code or a script that is installed on your server. It brings additional functionality (forms, security, integration with MailChimp) to your site. Sometimes, adding a plugin results in additional Widgets being added. Generally, when you add a plugin – more options appear on the dashboard.…

Themes are a pain to pick. There are so many and it’s hard to tell what they do. We’ll work with one theme (Make) first so that you get familiar with how a theme works. That will make it easier to evaluate themes. However, we will go over some of the criteria you use to…

Install the Make theme. Customize it as needed. Some suggestions: Change the fonts and colors. Have the front page be a standard blog page. Add copyright information to footer. Extra credit – look around at some of the other free themes and try installing a few and playing with them to see what you like…

What’s a Widget? Other than an adorably cute word that is. In WordPress,  a widget is a small block or bit of custom code that performs a specific task that you can easily add to widget friendly areas on your site. They were created to provide a simple way of giving design and structure control…

Last lesson, you created Posts.  This lesson, let’s create some Pages. Pages are very useful for creating menus and other structure on websites. Add on to your website that you created for Posts. Create these pages that represent more evergreen content. About Us page – this is the parent page for the remaining three. Have…

Editing a Page Pages work very similar to posts except there is not a default option to associate categories or tags with them. Also you can set a Parent for a page so that you can create a hierarchy of pages.  This makes it easier to organize your content especially for using as a basic…

Creating a Page The easiest way to add a new Page is by clicking the New menu time in the top black menu and then selecting Page. You can also create one by going to Page-> Add New on the left hand side column when in the Dashboard. Publishing a Page Publishing a page makes…