Land Use Adaption

Creating a Demo Website

Installation

The subpages for the students are preinstalled in a WordPress Multipage. The Students get administration rights. There are nevertheless some functions, that need to be performed by the Superadmistrator (ruth.verena@posteo.de):

  • Updates of Core, Plugins, Themes, etc.
  • add Websites
  • add Users
  • install Plugins
  • install Themes
  • use the Editor for Plugins/Themes
  • use unfiltered HTML
  • use the option „additional CSS“ in the Customizer

Howto using the example of

https://landuse.soil.uni-freiburg.de/naturschutz-rg1059

Target group: Adults, students, scientific background
Keywords: environmental protection, soft tourism, divers

Interest: Coral reefs, climate change, environmental protection

Goal: Information, rethinking, gathering more information

Arguments: Facts and beauty

Type: Microsite / Blog

Header:

  • Page title
  • Slogan
  • Search
  • Social Media Links

Navigation:

  • Homepage: Intro (Slideshow), teasered Content
  • Ecosystem services
  • Damage factors
  • Blog with categories and tags:
    • Actions
    • Reports
    • Solutions

Footer:

  • Tags
  • Data protection
  • Impress

Let’s go

  1. Click the Link in the confirmation email
  2.  Login:
    https://landuse.soil.uni-freiburg.de/[Gruppenname]-[Kürzel]/wp-admin
    Benutzername: your uni abbreviation
    Passwort: ***
  3. Plugins: „Password protected“
    1. activate
    2. Settings: set password „landuse2024“
    3. Test: log out, navigate to the Homepage (https://landuse.soil.uni-freiburg.de/[group name]-[abbr]), enter password „landuse2024“
  4. login again: https://landuse.soil.uni-freiburg.de/[group name]-[abbr]/wp-admin
  5. Settings > General: Change Site title and Tagline
  6. Settings > Permalinks: set to „Post name“, exception Blog: “Day and name”
  7. Posts > all Posts: „Hallo World!“ in den Papierkorb verschieben
  8. Pages: move „Sample Page“ to Trash
  9. Appearance > Themes: activate “Tropicana”
  10. Appearance > Menus: create “Mainmenu”, Auto add pages, Display location „Primary“
  11. Pages > Add New Page: fill Title and block
  12. Publish
  13. Posts > Categories: Add New Category
  14. Posts > Tags: Add Tags
  15. Appearance > Widgets: empty Primary Sidebar, add Tag Cloud and Categories to Footer
  16. Posts > Add New Post
    1. Video
    2. File
  17. Gather Posts in a page and add to the Mainmenu:
    1. Create Page
    2. Introtext
    3. Settings > Reading: „Beitragsseite > Blog“
  18. Create Homepage
    1. Add new Page
    2. add Block > Search for „Columns“
    3. Insert Teasers and linked Buttons
  19. Settings > Reading: Your homepage displays > A static page“, Choose your Homepage
  20. Appearance > Menus: Remove Homepage
  21. Create Slideshow
    1. Plugins: activate „Smart Slider 3“
    2. Smart Slider > Dashboard
    3. Add New Poject: Start with a template, import
    4. edit Slides
    5. activate Autoplay
  22. Go to Homepage > Edit Page: choose Block „Smart Slider“, select your Slider
  23. Appearance > Customizer: Colors, Header > Navigation Menu, Social Media Links, Header Image
  24. Appearance > Menus: create Footer Menu
  25. create Pages „Impress“ & „Data Protection“ anlegen:
    1. Impress: https://datenschutz-generator.de/impressum/?dsgo=free
    2. Data Protection:Settings > Privacy > Create a new Privacy Policy page
    3. Delete Menu Items from Main Menu and add to Footer Menu
  26. Plugins > Jetpack aktivieren
    1.  Setting up Jetpack
    2.  Plugins > Jetpack > Writing: Widgets aktivieren

What’s next?

Choose prefered Theme on https://wordpress.org/themes/.

A “block theme” works slightly differently than the classic way described above. You can find good tutorials on the following pages:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor/
https://wordpress.com/de/support/website-editor

On the playground

Search for useful Plugins.

You can install an test them on:

https://landuse.soil.uni-freiburg.de/spielplatz/wp-admin
Username: Spieler
PWD: Cex9w!zCFtW$H6Mlrx

Please note:

  1. The playground ist crowded
  2. Create own pages for experiments
  3. Everything will be deleted after the module

If there are any Themes or Plugins missing on the Multisite, send a Mail to ruth.verena@posteo.de. It will be quickly installed for you.

ENJOY!

TIPS

  • Don’t spend too long on technical details, if a function is not possible or difficult to implement, write it in the accompanying text, but an attempt must be visible, come to the tutorial, write …
  • Focuses on the target group (“meet the target group where they are”), content and user guidance
  • “What’s next?” Guide your users through the page.
  • Relevance determines the order.
  • The content of the page must be clear “above the fold”.
  • “Every additional click is one too many” – as long as clarity is guaranteed.
  • All pages (given the amount of content in this course) must be accessible via a menu.
  • Links must be meaningful. Never link “here”! Really never!
  • Mark external content, a module is also activated for you: “WP External Links”
  • open external links in a new window
  • Select and customize the theme, we want to see that you have worked on it
  • Pay attention to readability, contrasts, suitable font and color selection, uniform photo / illustration concept!
  • Visual highlighting of important content, space and color cost nothing.
  • If you use photos / illustrations in the content area, it must always be clear what is shown there and how the image relates to the content, e.g. with captions.
  • uniform image formats
  • legible graphics
  • an association always needs a statute
  • look for plugins to use more elements than text and images for the presentation of your content!
  • Slideshows don’t always fit
  • There is something on the internet? Please link to it!