Create your blog

To create your blog

1. Go to the multi-LEARN Blogs and click on the link “Log in to your blog”.
   

   Link to the login

2. Use the login information you received:
   Login: firstname.lastname (as on Moodle)
   Password: [given to you]
3. Change your password under Users -> Your Profile.
4. You can access your blog at
   http://multi-learn.org/firstname_lastname
   

Bookmark your blog and the link to the login in your browser for easy access.

Dashboard

The dashboard is your central hub for your blog administration. Here you can write posts and pages, change the layout, and make many more changes.

Basic blog settings

Before writing your first blog posts, it is helpful to make some basic blog settings. You find these in the dashboard in the left-hand side at the bottom.

1. General: Give your blog a different title if you wish. You can also choose a tagline, i.e. a subtitle for your blog.
   

   Choose a title (and subtitle) for your blog

2. Writing: You can leave the default settings.
3. Reading: On this page you can decide whether you want to have your blog posts displayed on your homepage or whether it should be static page, e.g. that you style in a particular way, where you display a mindmap, pictures etc.
4. Discussion: Here you can choose whether you allow visitors to your blog to leave comments or not and whether you want to be notified about these comments.

When you let visitors write comments, you can engage in discussion with them about your writing when they leave a comment.

1. Media: You can leave the default settings.
2. Privacy: Choose who can have access to your blog. You get the widest visibility by keeping your blog open to the entire Internet community. If you want to use images / videos from your internships or class assignments, please make sure that you have the consent of the people displayed as these are not open events.
3. Permalinks: This setting page allows you to decide how the URLs for your individual blog posts will look like. You should not change these settings later on. The structures “day and name” and “month and name” will have your post title in the URL and you can see immediately in which month or even on which day a post was written. For further information, check out Understanding WordPress Permalinks.
4. Delete Blog: Well, you do not really want to do that now, do you?
5. Profile Pic: This plugin enables you to upload a profile picture under Users -> Your Profile. Check that ‘Gravatar’ / Avatar Override is turned on for your profile picture to show up on your blog. You do not have to make any other changes.