The Edublogs user guide contains high level information related to WordPress and e-portfolios. If you have a question about creative design or WordPress functions, the user guide can help.

Menus are the primary pathway for visitors to navigate through the pages on your E-portfolio. Menus are customizable and re-arrangeable, and they can be altered as your E-portfolio evolves. To create your own menu, consider the most important subjects and topics relevant to your college experience. See an example below.

• About me (Biographical Information)
• Academics (Courses, My Major)
• Study Abroad
• Service/Extracurricular Experiences
• Research
• Professional Experiences (Conferences, presentations, etc.)
• Internships
• Thesis
• Resume

The majority of the content you will create on your WordPress will consist of pages and posts. They look the same via the WordPress dashboard, yet they have distinctly different functions in an E-Porfolio.

In a nutshell, one creates a page for content that acts like a placeholder or contains static information. They are best suited for information you rarely update, but reader visit on a regular basis. Pages typically contain a Title and a body and perhaps a photo or two. For an E-Portfolio, example pages might include "Bio," "My Service" "My Research," "International Travel," or "Educational Philosophy." Unlike a blog, when pages are created, a history of change over time is not available; a page exists as a static page until later updated and edited. Once it is updated, a reader cannot view previous iterations of the page. For organization, pages can be grouped together by establishing a Parent page and relevant subpages (e.g. Academics [the parent] –> Major, Coursework, Internship; Service [The Parent] –> My Service Site, My Service Experiences)

Posts, however, work like journal entries or what one might think of as a blog post. They are representation of a specific period of time or an update of information. For instance, one might write a post about a recent conference experience or the summing up of their first year of college. Over time, users can the all the posts one has made over a span of time in chronological order. Posts can be arranged on pages, in side bars, and RSS feed to construct a blog.

Every Honors & Scholars student who registers for an e-portfolio automatically receives an Honors themed template as a default. The template serves simply as a starting point so that students get a "feel" for the publishing system, and scholars are encouraged to choose a new theme of their own that reflects their individual style/personality or that complements subject matter of their portfolio. All themes are customizable and you can change banner images, header text, menu placement, background image, font colors, etc.

Different themes available in WordPress

1. Log in to your Honors E-Portfolio

2. On the dashboard, select "Themes" in Appearance drop down menu

3. Every theme is uniquely customizable. Customize the colors, layout, header text, and background by selecting 'Customize" in the Appearance drop-down menu

You may decide to embed a video or document into your E-portfolio rather than include a link that requires your visitors to navigate away from your page. Examples of embedded documents may include resumes, papers, and projects. 

Document:

Your Campus Press portfolio comes with a plugin to embed documents into your portfolio. To activate the plugin (if it is not already), from the Dashboard, click Plugins, and activate the "Embed any document" plugin. When publishing a post or a page, click "Add document." The final product allows the document to be visually represented in the body of your page or post.

Video

1. To embed a video or any other media with an embed code into a Page or Post, click Add Media

2. Click "Insert Embed Code" and insert the embed code from a video hosting service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)

Shortcode is a WordPress-specific code (similar to CSS or HTML) that enables you to do things that normally would require lots of complicated and technological expertise. They allow you to organize a large amount content on your posts or pages in a visually appealing and efficient manner, which creates an attractive and interactive experience for your readers. Creating shortcode is easy and simple and only involves a few quick steps.

1. When editing a post or a page, click "Add shortcode." When you click the Add Shortcodes button, a window will open showing you everything that can be added to your post using a shortcode. Choose the shortcode option that you would like to represent your content: Accordion, Toggle, Tabs, Dividers, etc.

2. Once you click a shortcode feature, a window will open allowing you to configure the feature before inserting it into your post.

3. After you have configured your shortcode feature, click the "Insert Shortcode" button to add the shortcode to your post.