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Set a Page as the Home Page

By default, Wordpress displays the most recent posts on your home page. You can, however, tell Wordpress to use a Page you’ve already created instead.

To set a Page as the home page follow these steps:

1. Log in to your site’s Dashboard
2. Under Settings, select Reading
3. Change the radio button to a Static Page
4. Chose the page for the Front Page from the drop down box
5. Click the Save Changes button

Watch the video demonstration:

http://campus.albion.edu/onlinetutorials/files/2009/05/pageashome.flv

Creating Posts & Categories From Existing Content

Posts are the default content type in Wordpress. Content that can be ordered by date and by categories is suited to posts. Posts are displayed on your site in reverse chronological order (newest first).

This tutorial will show you how to create posts and categories from existing content on your old WWW site.

1. Log in to your site’s Dashboard.
2. From Posts, click Add New
3. Create a Title (note the title will become a clickable link in your site’s navigation, so shorter is better).
4. Click in the editor window
5. Open a separate browser window or tab and go to the “old” page.
6. Copy the text (highlight the text, then right-click to copy).
   Don’t worry about any images or files right now. See the separate tutorial on moving images and files.
7. Back in the new site, click the PASTE AS TEXT button
8. Type CTRL-V to paste the text in the popup window, then click the Insert button
9. Select a category for the post on the right side of the screen, or add a new one
10. Publish the post and then view it

Watch the video (5 minutes)

http://campus.albion.edu/onlinetutorials/files/2009/05/posts.flv

Editor Toolbar Buttons

Wordpress may “hide” some of the editor window toolbar buttons.

If you’re missing the second row of buttons in the editor window, click the Kitchen Sink button, 3 in from the right on the main toolbar.

See the video (20 seconds):

http://campus.albion.edu/onlinetutorials/files/2009/05/kitchensink.flv

Moving Images and Files From Old Site

Images and other files like Word documents, PowerPoint files and PDFs are all manged the same way.  In this tutorial we will discuss how to get the files from our old site and into the new one.  The basic steps are below, followed by a video tutorial.

1. Log in to your site’s Dashboard
2. Open a second browser window or tab, and navigate to your old site
3. Right-click the image or file, and save it to your computer
4. In the campus.albion.edu site, edit the page or post you want to use the image or file in (or create a new page or post).
5. Use the media toolbar above the editor window to upload the file
6. For images, set optional caption text to be displayed under the photo.
7. Select link, size and position options. Files like Word documents won’t need a position.
8. Update/Save the post or page and view the results.

View the video demonstration:

http://campus.albion.edu/onlinetutorials/files/2009/05/imagesandfiles.flv