Goal

To under­stand the mechan­ics of chang­ing visual and func­tional aspects in a basic con­tent man­age­ment system.

Objective

Find and install a series of Word­Press plu­g­ins that illus­trate var­i­ous inter­ac­tions between form and content.

Reading

• https://​word​press​.org/​p​l​u​g​i​ns/
• https://​codex​.word​press​.org/​P​l​u​g​ins
• http://​www​.wpbe​gin​ner​.com/​b​e​g​i​n​n​e​r​s​-​g​u​i​d​e​/​s​t​e​p​-​b​y​-​s​t​e​p​-​g​u​i​d​e​-​t​o​-​i​n​s​t​a​l​l​-​a​-​w​o​r​d​p​r​e​s​s​-​p​l​u​g​i​n​-​f​o​r​-​b​e​g​i​n​n​e​rs/
• How to Backup & Restore Your Word­Press Site with Updraft­Plus https://​www​.wpbe​gin​ner​.com/​p​l​u​g​i​n​s​/​h​o​w​-​t​o​-​b​a​c​k​u​p​-​r​e​s​t​o​r​e​-​y​o​u​r​-​w​o​r​d​p​r​e​s​s​-​s​i​t​e​-​w​i​t​h​-​u​p​d​r​a​f​t​p​l​us/

Exercise

Login to your Word­Press site. Click on the Plu­g­ins menu on the left side of the Dash­board. Choose “Add New” at the top of the win­dow. Using the result­ing menu and/or the Inter­net, find and install each plugin:

• Con­tact Form 7 https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form‑7/
• WP Super Cache https://​word​press​.org/​p​l​u​g​i​n​s​/​w​p​-​s​u​p​e​r​-​c​a​c​he/
• Yoast SEO https://​word​press​.org/​p​l​u​g​i​n​s​/​w​o​r​d​p​r​e​s​s​-​s​eo/
• Updraft­Plus https://​word​press​.org/​p​l​u​g​i​n​s​/​u​p​d​r​a​f​t​p​l​us/

Resist the urge to exper­i­ment with the menus, wid­gets, set­tings or cus­tomiza­tions. These options will be addressed in later exer­cises. Please com­plete any many as pos­si­ble, but it is accept­able to leave a cou­ple miss­ing if it requires sig­nif­i­cant manip­u­la­tion of the other aspects of a plug-in. How­ever, these are are essen­tial cat­e­gories needed for best prac­tices, secu­rity, or safety.

Once uploaded, take a screen shot of the plug-in admin screen in the browser, and upload the image files to the appro­pri­ate D2L dropbox.

• The fol­low­ing rubric posted on D2L will deter­mine exer­cise score: Exer­cise Grading

Techniques

Word­Press Login, plu­gin upload, media attach­ment, screen shots

Materials

Media files, Word­Press instal­la­tion, browser

Deadlines

Tues­day, August 25, 2020. Exer­cise given.

Thurs­day, August 27, 2020. Exer­cise due. Screen shot of each admin screen uploaded to the appro­pri­ate D2L dropbox.