setting up wordpress directions creating an account lost your password? finding your dashboard...
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Setting up WordpressDirectionsCreating an accountLost your password?Finding your dashboardChanging the background themeAdding the Images pageMaking the Images page the homepageSetting up Categories
Log into Wordpress.comclick the get started button
Fill inemail address
username
password
blog address
click Create blog
CHECK YOUR EMAIL
• Wordpress will send you an email• This email is important• It ACTIVATES you account
1. go to wordpress login page2. Bookmark the login page
Go to wordpress.com
Log into your WordpressAccount
If you forget your password
Click on Lost your password?And wordpress will send
you an email to reset it
CLICK the gray and white avatar placeholder
This is your dashboardWhere you will set up and change:
- page theme, widgets/categories, posts, etc.
Go to Appearance < themes
Type coraline in the search boxUnder the coraline page image, click Activate
if no search box is available, SEE NEXT SLIDE
Activate
if no search box is available, select any template, then change the template to CORALINE by entering CORALINE into search field
Go to < Pages < Add New
1. Title the page Images2. Click Publish
Go to < Settings < Reading check a static page < Front page Images
Images
Go to Posts < Categories < Add New
category name
work in progress
Click add new category