Week Two

Week Two – What Can You Put Into a WordPress Site?

Table of Contents for
WordPress Introduction
Clark College Continuing Education

This week we will focus on what goes into a WordPress site, covering the Pages, posts, images, links, video, web writing, and organizing the content on your site. Be prepared with a minimum of five copyright free images and links to 3 YouTube videos to publish on your site. Come ready to write and be creative.

  1. WordPress Editors
  2. Content and Writing
  3. Publishing Multimedia
  4. Shortcodes
  5. Exploring the WordPress Post Panel
  6. Exploring the WordPress Page Panel

Homework Assignment Icon.Homework Week Two

  1. Review all the articles in the links for the class lessons.
  2. Check off the tasks you’ve accomplished on the Blog Checklist.

On Your Blog

  1. Complete the assignments for images and video.
  2. Create a Contact Page with a contact form.
  3. Create a Page called “Policies”
    • Add your copyright policy and license.
    • Go to Creative Commons and find the appropriate license and add it to your Policies Page (with Creative Commons badge/image).
  4. Edit published posts to fix their formatting if necessary.
  5. Add three new posts to your blog.
  6. Add a google map to a post or Page.
  7. Add another post with images and/or a gallery.
  8. Add a post featuring a blockquote and citation link.

Recommended Reading

Note: Some of the articles may have already been listed. The are included as topics covered in them directly relate to this week’s lessons.