Use the blog feature of this portfolio to add any reflections that you want to share along side the portfolio artifacts you will add here. This could be considered the blog part of the site or a regular journal.
This post is a demo; and you can delete or change it’s status to Draft once you start writing your own posts.
Create a new entry by clicking New -> Post to compose a new entry (see WordPress documentation on adding a new post or click the Help tab in the top right of the dashboard).
As you write, you may want to create categories for your posts (by topic? semester? course? that is up to you) to better help organize them. You can add categories via the editor box to the write of the post editor or via the Dashboard under Posts -> Categories.
Consider too adding tags to your posts, this can help describe and organize them over time as well, if you tag regularly.
It helps the design of the post of you upload a Featured Image (see the area to the right of the editing region). This ideally is something that represents the topic of your post. Be sure to use either original images or ones that are openly licensed to reuse. Some places to find images you can use include:
- Unsplash http://unsplash.com
- Pixabay http://pixabay.com
- WikiMedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/
- Creative Commons https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/
When you use images that are not your own, consider sharing an attribution credit — see bottom of this page for one way to do this. See also Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution
You may too want to consider embedding media in your blog posts; WordPress makes this easy via it’s automatic media embed feature, just by putting the web address for a YouTube video, a tweet, a SoundCloud file, on a blank line in your editor.
For example, we can embed a video telling you how to do this by putting it’s web address in the editor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0y9OvLIsh8
And this works as well for links from giphy.com
Make your blog posts amazing.
Featured Image: Old Barn and lichen on fence post at Sky Meadows State Park flickr photo by vastateparksstaff shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license