Welcome to help.qwriting.org!
Getting started
- What is a Blog?
- Create a QWriting Account and Blog
- Create a Blog using an existing QWriting Account.
- The WordPress Dashboard: the interface you use to add content and make changes to your blog
- Customize your display name (how you “sign” your posts and comments)
- Change your QWriting account email
Blog Basics
- Themes
- Posts, Pages, and Widgets
- Some sample course blogs to check out
Adding Content to your Blog
- How to write and publish a post
- How to write and publish a page
- Adding a link to a post or page
- Adding an image to a post or page
- Adding a .pdf, .doc, or other document to a post or page
- Adding audio or video to a post or page
Adding Functionality to your Blog using Widgets
- How to add widgets to your blog
- The Links Widget: This widget allows you to display a list of links to external sites, and/or other QWriting blogs, to the home page of your blog.
- The Class Blogroll: Professors can use the “Links” and “Add Link” widgets to add links to all class member blogs to the home page of their blogs. Students can use the “shared blogroll” widget to automatically include the same list of links on the home pages of their blogs.
Security and Privacy
- Adding Users to your blog
- Changing Privacy Settings for your post or blog
January 26, 2010
