This website follows from a talk on WordPress given to the Droitwich Spa U3A Maths, Science and Technology group on Monday 2nd February 2015, and provides an easy step-by-step guide to creating a simple WordPress website and/or blog, and is illustrated though the case study of creating the one given at the following link:
This case study website/blog is a facility for a small U3A group in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, UK, and contains information about its meetings, some teaching materials on learning to play the game of Bridge, some duplicate movements used by the group (which are suitable for a small club with limited playing time), and the results of the weekly club competition.
Overview of WordPress
Creating a WordPress website/blog means that you are going to have to become familiar with some of the terminology used. There is quite a lot of this, but initially you really need to know very little – only the following
- URL
- The “address” of your website/blog which you can advertise, and/or wait for the various “search engine” (eg Google) crawler’s to find it and for them to add it to web searches (this usually takes about a week).
- Title
- Which you choose (to reflect what you want to do or say).
- Theme
- Which determines how the content of your website/blog is rendered (or presented) when viewed though a web browser. You can choose a theme from the many which are available (and choose other features too which affect the appearance of your website/blog).
- Header
- Some themes include a “header” image which you can add, or select from the range available.
- Pages
- Which you create to provide “permanent” information, and can include text, images, photos, links to your other pages and to elsewhere, etc. Lots of these (and not many posts) and what you create is really a “website”.
- Menus
- Which you can create to give access to your pages.
- Posts
- Which you create to provide more “transient” information, and can include text, images, photos, links to your other pages and to elsewhere, etc (just as for pages). Lots of these (and not many pages) and what you create is really a “blog”.
- Widgets
- Most of the widgets provide a means by which users of your “blog” can access the posts, but they can be used to provide other functionality too.
- Dashboard
- The main WordPress window through which you can create and edit your website/blog.
- Media Library
- Where you can add and manage all your images, photos, and other documents such as PDF files, which you might want to include in your pages and posts.
Use this email address leshazlewoodu3a@btinternet.com if you wish to contact Les Hazlewood, the author and maintainer of this site.
© Les Hazlewood, 2014
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Droitwich Spa U3A Bridge Demo 