Today’s goals:

• Learn more about WordPress and finish adding content to your page on the class website.

 Before we begin

• Any questions from the last class?

 Today’s featured web site:

• https://www.ecosia.org/– Search the web, plant a tree!

 Finishing your page:

Logging in:

• Go to this link
• User name is first name, password is whatever you chose when I had you set up your account.
• Find your page: from the Dashboard, click Pages in the left menu, then type your first name in the white search box on the top left and hit enter. When you find your name, point your mouse to it and then click Edit below your name. You should now see your page editor.

Adding content:

• Write a little bit about yourself: hobbies, interests, family, favorite food/music/tv/movies, sports, random quotes, favorite celebrities, teams, clubs, etc.
• Need images? Feel free to take some from your social media accounts. You can also grab royalty-free stock images from: https://unsplash.com/, https://www.pexels.com/, or Bing.com (do image search, then choose free to share and use under filter).

When you’re done:

• Use the Checklist for Success below to review your page when you think you’re done. Make any necessary edits to your page.
• After you double-check your page to make sure it’s in the “A” category, review the “More About WordPress” questions below. We will go over these together before class ends.

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: Beatriz, Naishvi, Alex, and Marcos
  2. Student includes 7-10 pieces of information
  3. Student includes at least 3 images
  4. Student includes 1 link or more
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Student includes 4-6 pieces of information
  2. Student includes at least 2 images
  3. Student includes at least 1 link
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Student includes 1-3 pieces of information
  2. Student includes 0-1 images
  3. Student doesn’t add any links

 More About WordPress

• Let’s look at the code that was generated as you built your page. While you were adding text, images, and links in the Visual Editor on your page, the code was being added, which you can see by clicking on the Text tab on the top right of your page editor.
• Let’s also look at the Visual Editor and click on some of the menu options. Then we will switch the view to the Text Editor to see the code. Let’s add headings, a link, an image, bold text, italicized text, and bullets (numbered and no numbers).
• Is it easy to add images? Why or why not? What happens with image sizes? What is a good way to make sure your image is sized properly, not just for a WordPress page but for any webpage?
• When you’re in your page editor, is there anything on your screen that you’re curious about?
• What are your WordPress questions?
• Let’s check out some other internal parts of the class website; many of these things are unique to WordPress.
• What is the most important thing you have learned about using WordPress to create your own page on the class website?
• Other questions:
  • Link structure: https://www.mhswebdesign.com/student-pages/period-5/arden/. What is the main page? What are the subpages? How can you tell?
  • How could you create your portfolio page and link it to your other page?
  • How could you add a Font Awesome icon to your page? Where do you add the code- the Visual or the Text Editor?