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WordPress Tutorial

Having never blogged before, I followed my intuition to set up my critical reflective journal last week, as best I could. I knew what I wanted to do, but couldn’t figure out how to do it, without assistance. So, I thought it would be a good idea to invest some time in learning how to use WordPress properly this week.

I did search on Lynda and found the tutorial video series: “WordPress 5 Essential Training” with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

This was a great, and relatively short, introductory course, which quite quickly helped me to see that a WordPress post is built up using blocks. I had been trying to use it like a word processing packages and getting quite puzzled (and a little frustrated) when my text wasn’t behaving as I expected it to.

Following the guidance of the tutorial video series, I feel like I have now grasped the main concepts quite well, and have managed to publish a number of posts that are easily navigated through the menu, category and tag systems that I have in place.

As I work through the rest of the module I will continue to experiment and learn more of the capabilities of WordPress, in an effort to eventually achieve blog that serves me well and I am proud to present.

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Journal System Setup

This is my first experience with blogging.  I’ve opted to use WordPress, as I’m aware of its popularity among bloggers and it’s free to use at the most basic level of subscription.  With no prior experience of WordPress, I’ve followed the setup wizards (and, to some extent, my intuition) and managed to establish a first attempt blog site, which should serve its purpose.

I do need to find some tutorial resources and develop my WordPress capabilities, but I think I’ve achieved an acceptable starting point from which the look and feel of my blog can, and will, evolve over the duration of the course.

Browsing a number of blogs created by students further along on the MACAD course, I see considerable variation of style and presentation.  I’ll continue to do this in order to get a feel for the elements that I particularly like, and those that I don’t.  This will be very useful in shaping my own site, over time, into one that best serves me.

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