WordPress Central

Whether you have extensive experience with WordPress or none at all, please take a moment to peruse this page. You’ll find WordPress materials, pathways for technical support, information on training options, links to web-related resources, and much more. The goal of the ATRC web staff is to help the Palomar College WordPress community become successful at managing and maintaining their websites. We are committed to partnering with you to reach this goal through a variety of training efforts:

3PD Portal: ATRC offers a variety of WordPress and WordPress plugins workshops through the 3PD Portal, which can be found within the Single Sign-on Portal.Once at the portal, choose Learning > Workshop Calendar and search for “WordPress”. Available workshops will display in the results.
Individualized Sessions: These training sessions are currently held via ZOOM and can be booked through the ATRC Appointment Page.
The on-demand video training library, below, is continually growing. Please take a moment to browse or search the contents.

Advanced WordPress: Block Editor Tips and Tricks (Spring 2023)

By Norcross, ChrisJanuary 31, 2023How-To, WordPress

This is a recording of the Palomar College Spring 2023 Flex Week workshop. Learn about some of the often overlooked, but useful blocks that are available in the WordPress Block Editor.

Using the WordPress Block Editor (Spring 2023)

By Norcross, ChrisJanuary 31, 2023How-To, WordPress

This is a recording of the January 24th workshop during Spring 2023 Flex Week. Learn how to take full advantage of the new WordPress Block Editor. This workshop will help site admins switch from the Classic Editor to the Block Editor and demonstrate how to use it when crafting pages and posts.

What’s New in WordPress? (Spring 2023)

By Norcross, ChrisJanuary 26, 2023Updates, WordPress

This is a recording of the January 24th workshop during Spring 2023 Flex Week. Updated for Spring 2023. Find out about new WordPress features and updates. This workshop will help existing users learn what has changed and how to make the most of the new features.

The (New) WordPress Block Editor

By Helming, Kelly J.June 24, 2021How-To, WordPress

The WordPress Block Editor delivers a rich and flexible editing experience. Though we’ve been using the Block Editor for a while, as of January 2023 Palomar fully adopted the Block Editor as the core WordPress editor and the legacy Classic Editor is no longer supported. Here are some resources you may want to explore:

The New Gravity Forms Experience (Version 2.5)

By Norcross, ChrisJune 16, 2021Plugins

Gravity Forms 2.5 is now available for Palomar College websites. If you are an existing Gravity Forms user, there are a few changes that you should know about. You can read the full details from the developers of Gravity forms on their blog or, even better, see it in action by viewing the video covering… Continue Reading The New Gravity Forms Experience (Version 2.5)

Export/Import Layouts from Site to Site: Site Origin Page Builder

By Helming, Kelly J.August 10, 2020Plugins

The SiteOrigin Page Builder plugin allows you to create complex WordPress pages without ever having to write a line of code. If you’re looking for an intuitive way to make multiple columns, accordion toggles, or other complex interactive features for your website, this page builder might make sense. If you don’t see this plugin in… Continue Reading Export/Import Layouts from Site to Site: Site Origin Page Builder

Expanding Your WordPress Menu Skills

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020How-To, WordPress

This is part two of a two-part series on how to expand your WordPress menu skills. In this 8-minute video, Kelly introduces three additional menu types: The dropdown expanding menu item The custom link type: how to link to a PDF in the media library The category link type Watch the Video

Menu Editing Basics in WordPress

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020How-To, WordPress

This is part one of a two-part series on how to create a menu in WordPress. Topics covered in this 3-minute video include: 00:07 – The Menu Editing Area 00:33 – Getting to the Menu Editing Area From The Dashboard 00:47 – Editing the “Main Menu” 01:20 – Add a New Page to the Menu… Continue Reading Menu Editing Basics in WordPress

Widget Quick Tour | Add a Navigation Menu to the Sidebar

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020How-To, WordPress

This 7-minute session includes: Overview of widgets in WordPress How to add a secondary navigation menu to the sidebar How to control the visibility of a widget View the Zoom Recording

Locate and Attribute Free Images From the Web

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020Images

This 2-minute session includes: Overview of how to search Google for free and public domain images Where to find copyright information for attribution on Wikimedia Commons View the Video

Worry-Free Image Attribution: the Image Source Control Plugin

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020How-To, Images, Plugins

Learn how to quickly and accurately add attribution to images in WordPress with the Image Source Control plugin. Topics covered in this 6-minute session include: Add media to the WordPress media library Accurately complete the attribution items in the plugin interface Illustration includes an image downloaded from Wikimedia Commons Captions are forthcoming, please check back!… Continue Reading Worry-Free Image Attribution: the Image Source Control Plugin

Make a button from a regular link

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020How-To, WordPress

This 4-minute video illustrates how to change a regular text link into a standard button. Captions are forthcoming. View the Video

Alt Text and More: the WP Accessibility Plugin

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020Accessibility, Images, Plugins

This 3-minute session includes: 00:14 – Alt Text Definition 00:46 – How to add alt text after the fact 01:51 – Marking an image as decorative View the Video

Easy Tables: TablePress Plugin Intermediate

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020Plugins

This is part one of a two-part series on how to easily create tables in WordPress. Topics covered in this 7-minute session include: How to add and delete rows and columns, How to use the advanced editor How to create a column span How to export a table as a CSV file View the Zoom… Continue Reading Easy Tables: TablePress Plugin Intermediate

Easy Tables: TablePress Plugin Basics

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020Plugins

This is part one of a two-part series on how to easily create tables in WordPress. Topics covered in this 10-minute session include: Overview of the interface How to add a new table from scratch How to import a table by copy/paste from Excel data Adding a table title and description How to add a… Continue Reading Easy Tables: TablePress Plugin Basics

Getting Started: SiteOrigin Page Builder

By Helming, Kelly J.July 14, 2020Plugins

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