{"id":99,"date":"2018-09-16T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/?p=99"},"modified":"2018-09-16T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:30:28","slug":"narrating-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/2018\/09\/16\/narrating-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrating U"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appreciate Matt Squirell’s description<\/a> of setting up his Word Press site. I felt very much the same – like I was on a high speed boat ride without quite knowing how the controls work. I was a boat out of control for a time. I consider myself to be tech-savvy, however, it took some time to become familiar with the Word Press platform and how all the components worked together. I knew what I wanted, but did not know how to catalogue and build it. It took some time to play with different elements and try them out on my site, deleting them, re-arranging them, to get to a place of understanding. I also found that the page was not refreshing well, so I had to actually close the tab and relaunch my website to see new changes. This was frustrating. Though I felt like the platform looked “intuitive” I didn’t quite yet have the intuition for how to use it!<\/p>\n

Through this process I ended up figuring out the power of categories. I started out with them initially, but my menu bars were not picking them up the way I wanted. So I decided to just have pages which seemed easier to attach to a menu. But then I found it difficult for the pages to keep a running and organized system for my posts. So then I went back to categories, and by then I “had the controls on my boat” and this then made sense.<\/p>\n

In the end, I decided to make a menu across the top which will list each course. The courses will have a drop down box with the categories from that courses. I added widgets that included archives, recent comments, and my categories, which would make it easier for others to find what they need. The widgets were a nice addition as a way to include the information I wanted to, without adding more to my menu bar.<\/p>\n

I think over time, as I add more courses to my page the menu might get cumbersome, but I think I will be able to create broader parent groups when I need to in order to nest them more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appreciate Matt Squirell’s description of setting up his Word Press site. I felt very much the same – like I was on a high speed boat ride without quite knowing how the controls work. I was a boat out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-skills","category-narrating-u","category-twu-online","tag-twuonline","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}