University Blog Service Tutorials

The University Blog Service provides blogs for faculty (for non-course related purposes) and staff at The University of Westminster.

The service uses WordPress, a popular blogging platform.

Blogs can be created for individuals, groups, projects, or departments to allow you:

• to express your thoughts and opinions
• to market or promote something
• to help people by providing useful information
• to establish yourself as an expert
• to stay Active or knowledgeable in a field or topic

WordPress Training Documentation

Getting started

• Accessing your wordpress site
• Using the wordpress dashboard
• Using the WordPress toolbar

Creating posts

• Creating Posts
• Creating Pages
• Adding images
• Adding image galleries
• Creating and managing links
• Restoring previous versions of a post

WordPress Comments

Managing comments

WordPress Menu User Guide

• Defining a Menu
• Adding Items to a Menu
• Deleting a Menu Item
• Customising Menu Items
• Creating Multi-level Menus
• Adding Your Menu to Your Site

Managing users

• Understanding the different user roles/levels
• add a new user
• changing a users permissions or deleting a user

Additional points

• How to promote the blog

Online Resources

Introduction to Blogging

Getting Started with WordPress

Working with WordPress

WordPress Training Videos

• WordPress Post Categories
• WordPress Comments
• WordPress Dashboard Overview
• WordPress Your Profile
• WordPress Reading Settings
• WordPress Post Tags
• WordPress Media Library
• WordPress General Settings
• WordPress Discussion
• WordPress Installed Plugins
• WordPress All Users
• WordPress All Posts
• WordPress Permalinks
• WordPress Custom Navigation Menu
• WordPress How to Create and Edit Users
• WordPress How to Use the Image Galleries
• WordPress How to Use the Media Library
• WordPress Post Categories