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

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