Process Diary
Lynda week 2
Dear Diary,
Things are moving along with wordpress. I’m learning a little more about how the dashboard works and navigating around it. There are still lots of terms to learn and understand. These answers should help you understand:
- What features can you change in “quick edit”? For all posts/pages you can change title, publishing date/time, author, password, category, tags, turn on/off comments, change status.
- When might you “bulk edit”? You can change all of the above in more than one post/page at a time.
- How are the filter features helpful on the index page for posts and pages?Makes it easier to find what page or post you are looking for quicker.
- Why does WordPress create different versions of an image you upload? It has a full size image and a thumbnail image
- What type of things can you do on an image edit page in the media library? Edit the description, details, where it links, if it has a comment section.
- What is the theme customizer and how can you use it? It is where you customize everything. Logo, header options, colors, appearance, etc.
- How do you create your navigation within the WordPress admin? Customizer/ menu is where you can add social links and menu buttons. You can choose where they appear as well as if they go to a link, post, page. If they have a category or tag and format information. They are drag and drop to organize.
- What are two different ways to install different themes? You can install a theme from the customizer. There are current themes already in there and you can also add third party themes.
- What are plugins and how do you install them? Plugins add features and function to a site. From the admin panel you go to plugin directory and you can install them from there.
- How do you know if a plugin is trustworthy? You have to take the time to research it and you can check the reviews in the directory as well as searching for reviews online.
- What is the path from the root WordPress folder to your theme folder? (In other words, where does the theme folder live? Online in a URL wp-admin/themes
- Explain the different types of users? What type of access does each user role have? Subscriber – registered user only Contributor – writes posts but cant publish or do anything else. Author – same as contributor but can publish/edit/and delete own posts. Editor – same as author but can also create/edit/delete other people’s content. Admin – full control
- What are some features you can change in general settings? Title, icon, email, membership, new user default role, timezone, date format, date format, time format, week starts on, language, writing/reading settings, media settings
- What are permalinks? Links you see in the URL when you visit content on a site.
Well that’s what I learned this week! I hope you’re getting all of this Diary! 🙂
It’s been a long day so nighty night,
Karen