{"id":68,"date":"2024-01-11T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chartweave.com\/hist390spring2024\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2024-01-17T03:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:58:40","slug":"project-1-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chartweave.com\/hist390spring2024\/assignments\/project-1-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Project #1: WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For your first project of the semester, you will set up your own website on which you’ll be posting the rest of your assignments. To do so, you will first register a domain hosted through Reclaim Hosting and then install WordPress on to your domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1: Buying Your Domain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The first step of this project is to buy a domain, your own little corner of the internet, from Reclaim Hosting. This domain will cost $45 for the year. You are required to maintain this domain for the entirety of this course; however, after that, what you do with your domain is up to you! You can transform it into whatever kind of website you’d like once our course is complete or you can let it expire at the end of the 12 month hosting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Go to Reclaim Hosting<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Click “Sign Up”. You may have to scroll down a little bit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Sign up for the “personal” ($45) option.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Select a domain name and check its availability. Feel free to get creative and fun with your domain name, but please pick something passably professional. Remember that your domain name is part of the branding of your website and sets a tone for what to expect from your website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Purchase your domain!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Wait for your registration confirmation email and verify your purchase. You may receive two emails from Reclaim Hosting, one welcoming you and another asking you to verify your registration. You need to verify your registration via this email in order to activate your domain. Do not delete these emails. They contain important log-in information as well as more information about your domain should that be of interest to you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Part 2: Setting Up WordPress on Your Domain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. On Reclaim Hosting, go to the Client Area Login. Use the login information provided in your welcome email to sign in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Go to cPanel (short for Control Panel), and then click on WordPress in the “Applications” section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Click “Install application” to open up a settings panel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Leave everything exactly as it is, except scroll down to “Settings.”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Under “Settings,” change the administrator username and password to something you will remember. This is what you will use to log into your blog, so be sure to remember it!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Change the blog name and tagline to something more personalized than the generic WordPress language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Click “Install” at the bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Part 3: Access Your WordPress Site<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      1. In the Installatron in cPanel, you should now see a tab that says “My Applications” and under “My Applications,” you should see your newly installed WordPress instance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. The key link you need from there is the one that ends in “wp-admin.” Click on that to get to the backend of your WordPress site. You’ll also need the log-in information you chose for your WordPress from Part 2, Step 5.

        It’s a good idea to bookmark this link so that you don’t have to go through Reclaim’s cPanel every time you need to log in to your website. If you ever misplace or forget where to log in to your website, you can find your log-in page at https:\/\/[your domain name.com or .net, whatever you chose]\/wp-admin<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Log in to your WordPress site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Part 4: Customizing Your WordPress Site<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        Congratulations! You’ve successfully set up your domain and your WordPress site. Your blog is almost ready to be used for class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        If you’ve never used WordPress before, consider watching this video<\/a> explaining all the different parts of the interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. Customize how your site looks by changing the theme.

          Your blog will come with a pre-installed default look, which WordPress calls a “theme.” Change your theme by going to “Appearance” in the sidebar menu, clicking on “Theme” and then “Add New” at the top (or           follow this tutorial from WordPress about themes<\/a> – This video goes through a variety of methods; you’ll want to use the Install from Dashboard method). WordPress has A LOT of themes for a lot of different purposes, so take some time to find one that you like that also does what you need it to do for this class (namely, a blog).

          If you’d like to customize your site further by adding a header image, changing the color scheme or adding different pages, feel free and have fun, but you are not required to do so.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Remove all boilerplate filler text from your site.

          When your WordPress blog first goes live, WordPress “helpfully” fills in a bunch of boilerplate stuff, like “hello world” blog posts, fake addresses or even a generic WordPress comment. Be sure to remove all boilerplate from your website. To check if you’ve gotten it all, you should visit your website from the frontend (the side everyone else can see), by visiting the domain you purchased earlier and clicking around.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Part 5: Publish Your First Blog Post<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Read this article by Daniel Immerwahr<\/a> from the Washington Post<\/em>. If you run into a paywall, you can also access the article here from the Times Union<\/em><\/a>. If you can’t access the article through either link, let me know.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Respond to the article by writing a 3-paragraph blog post. In your response, tell me your initial reactions, what you think Immerwahr is right about and what you think he is wrong about. (Yup, that’s one paragraph each!)

            To make a blog post, from your WordPress Dashboard, click “Posts” and then “Add New Post” at the top. To learn more about writing and posting blog posts on WordPress,             check out this tutorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          3. Add one more paragraph to your blog post where you describe the historical topic you’d like to research this semester. Last week for your brainstorming, you may have been vague; now it’s time to be more specific. What about your topic do you find interesting? For example, go beyond simply “I want to research World War II.” Instead, consider: “What was the experience of African American soldiers during World War II?” or “How did women contribute to the homefront?” It’s okay if your research question changes over the course of the semester, but try to stick to a single historical event.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          4. Publish your post!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          5. Submit your entire completed assignment by posting a link to your public blog post in the #week-02-website channel on Slack.

            Make sure your link is to your blog post specifically. It should <\/strong>look like: https:\/\/chartweave.com\/hello-world\/<\/em>
            It should NOT<\/strong> look like: https\/\/chartweave.com\/<\/em> (that’s just your general website) OR https\/\/chartweave.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1209&action=edit<\/em> (that’s the editing link)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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