Make Your WordPress Site Easier to Edit

• Type your https://YOURWEBSITENAME.wludci.info/admin
• Login with your username and password
• Go to Plugins
• Add New
• Click the Add New button
• Search for Classic Editor
• Click Install Now
• Click Activate

• Go to Settings >> Writing

• In Classic Editor Settings toggle to radio button that says “Replace the Gutenberg editor with Classic editor”
• Save

When adding posts go to Add New (Classic)
You should now see a toolbar when you edit your posts!

Additional ideas to improve the usability of your site

• create a page(s)
  • go to Pages >> Add New >> enter page title >> click Publish
    
• create a menu
  • go to Appearance >> Menus >> drag items into the order you prefer >> Save Menu
• install plugins (may help you complete your blog posts and/or Multimedia Narrative)
  • go to Plugins >> Add New >> Install Now >> Activate
    
  • suggested plugins:
    • Knight Lab TimelineJS
    • Akismet Anti-Spam
    • Disable Comments

Helpful web design resources

• W&L subscribes to this online tutorial resource
• basic WordPress tutorial
  •  basics on changing your site’s appearance
• Smashing Magazine: “A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a WordPress Website.”

Additional WordPress.org resources:

• WordPress Lessons
• Getting started with WordPress from WordPress.org

information adapted from Sydney Buffkin @ http://writ100.recursivewriting.com