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Setting up Wordpress

A how to guide

Setting upWordpressA how to guide

Using Wordpress

This will give you a step by step guide to setting up your Wordpress account and how to set up your first post.


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Go to wordpress.com

First you need to select Get Started


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Your details

Then add in your blog name and login details.


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Get started

From here you can login and go to My Blog and get started.


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Your blog

Select your blog from the list. This is also where you can start a new blog


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Your Blog

this is what your blog will look like to the world. We need to add in pages and posts. You can change themes etc too.


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The dashboard

On the left there is access to the dashboard. Here you can modify all sections of your blog.


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Adding pages

Pages give different sections to your blog. We will be adding in a page for each section of the course.


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Appearence

This is the section you can use to change what your blog looks like.


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Adding pages

Simply click on all pages and you can see the pages you have created. Click on add to make a new one.


Using wordpress

Using Wordpress

Wordpress is a great tool to document the learning you are doing, give it an audience to show off your work and to use as a revision tool to help revise what you did. Keep it up to date to show what you have achieved.