Register for a WordPress account

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Creating a WordPress account

1. Visit the course website (eg, https://umainenewmedia.net/nmd100).
2. Click on Admin in navigation menu at top. You'll get one of these screens:
• Screen A. The word "Register" will appear in tiny print, or
• Screen B. The interface might say "Login with WordPress.com" or "Login with email". Choose "email", which will take you to A.
3. Register with your maine.edu email. This coold take up to an hour to receive.
4. If you don't see the email within an hour, access your UMaine email at https://mail.google.com/ and look in the Spam or All Mail boxes.
5. Click on the registration email to create your account.

Creating an individual post

(This could be practiced during second class)

1. Go to https://umainenewmedia.net/nmd100
2. Refresh the page if necessary until a black bar appears at top.
3. Make sure you have a login.
4. Click + New > New Post.
5. Add a title like Task 0: Mary Gonzalez.
6. Add a featured image at lower right.
7. Add a category such as Task 0.

⚠️ Please do not use large images (> 500kB) because it will crash the website.

Creating a collaborative post

The following redundancy will help prevent missing grades.

1. For a team project in classes such as NMD 100 and 200, one team member can post, ensuring that the title includes all team member names.
2. Each other team member must now clone a version of the original post, ensuring she or he is listed as the author of the cloned post.
3. Likewise the TA will copy-paste any comments and grades for each student post.

This is very easy in WordPress, because once one team member has posted, the others can clone the post (thanks to a Jetpack plugin), change the tile, and then change the author.