WordPress Overview

WordPress is Smith’s platform for creating blogs and websites. WordPress sites can be built to manage and organize content in many different ways.  You can build a traditional chronological blog, or manage interrelated types of content.  You can also use it to host and display multimedia materials and pages of static information. As a site administrator, you can customize your site to reflect the look and feel best suited to your content and audience. This page gives you some information to get started. Each section is linked below.

  • Customizing a WordPress Site

    WordPress provides many ways to personalize each website. You can access many of the customizable options from the WordPress dashboard. In the main navigation, select Appearance to customize the Theme, or overall look of your site, add Widgets, and update the site’s navigation with Menus. The WordPress Customizer is accessible from the WordPress dashboard, and…

  • Organizing WordPress Content

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  • Creating and Managing WordPress Menus

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  • WordPress Settings

    The Settings section of a WordPress site has additional settings for administrators. 

  • WordPress Accessibility

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