First tasks you might explore with your new blog:

• Go to APPEARANCE – change the template and make additional adjustments to the look and feel of your blog site
• Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts”
• Add pages, if you like.
• Include hyperlinks in your posts (select text and click on the link icon in the post toolbar)
• Embed images or set featured images and embed video in blog posts and pages (can be your own media or that found on the internet, but consider free or creative commons licensed works). To embed a YouTube video, simply paste the URL on its own line.
• Under Dashboard/Appearance,
  • Select your preferred website theme and customize to your preferences (New title, new header image, etc.)
  • Customize menus & navigation
  • Use widgets to customize blog content and features
  • Do consider creating categories for each

Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, defer to using your own images or Creative Commons CC BY images and items.

Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging:

• WordPress resources
• Using RSS feeds to read blog posts from your networks (e.g., Feedly)
• Privacy resources
• Copyright resources
• Finding images you can use