Librarians do GaGa

BUILDING WEBSITES WITH WORDPRESS

Creating a free website for your library or organization is easy using WordPress.com.  In this workshop you will learn, hands-on, how to :

• What is WordPress.com?
• Create a WordPress Account
• Use the Dashboard
• Pick a theme
• Use your site as a website
  • Create a home page
  • Add more pages
  • Create custom menus
  • Add widgets and other good stuff
• Use your site as a blog
  • Write posts
  • Use Categories and Tags
  • Add images to posts
• Add social networking features
• Understand your Privacy Options
• And more!

WordPress and Librarians

Old Blog post from Bill the Librarian Blog

The past few days I have found that I have been on the wrong blogging and webpage platform for many years.  WordPress is incredibly easy to use and also very powerful.  I am using the Atahualpa theme which is very configurable but is not for someone without some experience with setting up blogging sites or websites.  I have found it is also popular with other librarians.

I have also found an amazing group of fellow librarians using WordPress.  After it was suggested by several people that I should set up a Facebook Group focused on WordPress and Librarians, I did so this past Monday. The WordPress and Librarians Facebook Group now has over 170 members.  I have learned quite a bit about WordPress from the group in just three days.

Affordable Web Hosting

Need hosting services? I use LISHosts.org run by Blake Carver and Sean Fitzpatrick. They provide great tech support and inexpensive services for those in the LIS professions. Blake just fixed an issue while he was on the road heading to a conference. He did it via his iPhone.

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