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TDL faculty members know WordPress software as a blogging tool for chronicling their research activities, sharing news, and interacting with others online.

With its capabilities for creating web pages and for adding rich functionality through plugins and widgets, however, WordPress is more than just a blogging software. It can also be used to create full-featured websites (like the TDL website, which uses WordPress). As a result, TDL now offers “TDL Sites,” a new service using a familiar application.

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About TDL Sites

With TDL Sites, members can create a WordPress website hosted by TDL. TDL Sites can be used to create an information website about a research project, to communicate with a project group, or any other scholarly purpose members can dream up.


Documentation

Getting Started

Sites vs. Blogs: What’s the difference?

Request a TDL Site

Setting up a TDL Site: First Steps

First Steps with WordPress  (from WordPress.org)

Creating and Editing Content

TDL Sites use WordPress open source software. Consult the following articles from the WordPress User Documentation for more information about working in TDL Sites.

Writing Posts

Creating Pages

Using Images

Design and Customization

TDL Sites use WordPress open source software. Consult the following articles from the WordPress User Documentation for more information about working in TDL Sites.

Blog Design and Layout

Using Themes

Available Plugins

Comments and Spam

Comment Moderation

Dealing with Comment Spam

More information

For more information about using WordPress software, see the WordPress Web site.




Resources

Changes to WordPress with WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 documentation

Upgrade to WordPress 3.3 (March 2012)

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