STEP ONE Go to your WordPress site: https://YOURWEBSITENAME.wludci.info/admin
- Login with your username and password
- Go to Plugins
- Click the Add New link
- Search and locate Knight Lab Timeline
- Click Install Now
- Click Activate
STEP TWO Go to this webpage: http://timeline.knightlab.com/#make (This page has helpful info to help customize your timeline)
- Click on Get the Spreadsheet Template (Blue button)
- Click on Make a Copy button
- Change the name of the file from Copy of Official… to whatever you want to call your spreadsheet (e.g. DCI180)
- You do this by clicking into the spreadsheet name at top left of page next to the green sheet icon
- Under File select Share > Publish to the Web > Publish > OK > Close Window
- Before you close your browser, make sure you have copied the URL in your address bar.
STEP THREE Go back to https://YOURWEBSITENAME.wludci.info/admin and click on Posts or Pages in WordPress to create (add new) or update (all posts/pages) your blog post/page for this assignment
- Once in your post page, click Add Timeline (top of blog page, button with red diamond)
- Paste your Spreadsheet URL into the Data Source box when prompted and click Publish or Update at right of screen (URL should start with https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets…)
- Make edits to the Google Spreadsheet as needed (bookmark your google.docs spreadsheet for easy access)
- Don’t change the column headers, don’t remove any columns, and don’t leave any blank rows in your spreadsheet
- Images need to have URLS (add images to your Media library in WordPress and link to the URL