Setting up Wordpress Directions Creating an account Lost your password? Finding your dashboard...

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Setting up Wordpress Directions Creating an account Lost your password? Finding your dashboard Changing the background theme Adding the Images page Making the Images page the homepa ge Setting up Categories

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Page 1: Setting up Wordpress Directions Creating an account Lost your password? Finding your dashboard Changing the background theme Adding the Images page Making.

Setting up WordpressDirectionsCreating an accountLost your password?Finding your dashboardChanging the background themeAdding the Images pageMaking the Images page the homepageSetting up Categories

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Log into Wordpress.comclick the get started button

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Fill inemail address

username

password

blog address

click Create blog

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CHECK YOUR EMAIL

• Wordpress will send you an email• This email is important• It ACTIVATES you account

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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

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CLICK the gray and white avatar placeholder

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This is your dashboardWhere you will set up and change:

- page theme, widgets/categories, posts, etc.

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Go to Appearance < themes

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Type coraline in the search boxUnder the coraline page image, click Activate

if no search box is available, SEE NEXT SLIDE

Activate

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if no search box is available, select any template, then change the template to CORALINE by entering CORALINE into search field

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Go to < Pages < Add New

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1. Title the page Images2. Click Publish

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Go to < Settings < Reading check a static page < Front page Images

Images

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Go to Posts < Categories < Add New

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category name

work in progress

Click add new category