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WordPress for Beginners

Here are some great tutorials from Wordpress to get you started. Remember to SAVE YOUR POSTS FREQUENTLY!

Additionally, since articles may be written in WYSIWYG mode or code mode (strict HTML conveniently enough), classes may be added to help with formatting. They are easily accessible via the ‘Styles’ drop-down menu in the visual editor.

‘More Tag’

When documents are previewed, such as when multiple posts are viewed via a search or category listing, they will appear unformatted. To tidy their appearances you should include a ‘more tag’ after introductory paragraphs. The tag has no effect on the post when viewed directly (in its full format).

The ‘more tag’ is available through the edit bar or may be manually coded.

Table of Contents (ToC)

Documents with two or more ‘headings’ defined will have a ToC automatically generated for them. ToCs are visible in the upper left corner of applicable documents. This feature is made available by the Table of Contents Generator WordPress plugin.

TOCs only appear if you have marked your document with headings.

Linking Internal Documents

Three methods exist to create links to Obeid Lab internal documents:

  1. Permalinks or ’slugs’ (the term for the intuitive reference names assigned to posts, i.e. /help)
  2. IDs
  3. Full html reference (i.e. http://obeidlab.com/help)

Using the numeric values found in the ID column of the Posts, Categories, and Pages Administration, you can create links as follows.

To link to a Post:

or find the ID of the target post on the Posts administration panel, and insert it in place of the ‘32′ in this link:

To link to a Category, find the ID of the target Category on the Categories administration panel, and insert it in place of the ‘10′ in this link:

To link to a Page

or find the ID of the target Page on the Pages administration panel, and insert it in place of the ‘20′ in this link:

  • Year: <a href=”/index.php?m=2006″>2006</a>
  • Month: <a href=”/index.php?m=200601″>Jan 2006</a>
  • Day: <a href=”/index.php?m=20060101″>Jan 1, 2006</a>

If you are providing a link to your site from outside of your site, be sure to specify a full URL to the correct location:

  • <a href=”http://obeidlab.com/contact-us”>Contact Us</a>

or

  • <a href=”http://obeidlab.com/index.php?p=21″>Contact Us</a>

Footnotes (Citations & References)

It is possible to use ’self-numbering’ citations in your posts thanks to the WP-Footnotes Plugin.

Creating a Citation

To create a footnote, include the reference information inside of double parentheses anywhere in your post you’d like to cite a source. This only needs to be done once per reference source. For example (Note: an extra space was included between the ‘((’ to prevent its encoding):

  • I read a great article on PDs in the motor cortex. ( (Georgopoulos, A. P., Merchant, H., Naselaris, T. & Amirikian, B. (2007). Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, , .))

will end up looking like:

  • I read a great article on PDs in the motor cortex.1

Notice the link to the Reference section of the paper. It was automatically generated by the inclusion of one or more citations.

Referencing a Previous Created Citation

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to refer to a previous footnote a second (or third, or fourth…) time. To do this, you can either simply insert the exact same text as you did the first time and the identifier will simply reference the previous note.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to do all that typing again, you can construct a footnote like this: ( (ref:1)). and the identifier will reference the footnote with the given number2. Please note that while this alternate method is easier to write, it is also not flexible to the insertion of new citations (since the insertion of new citations may renumber the references but not change the ref:# tag.)

Paginated Posts

By default each page of your post will have it’s own set of footnotes at the bottom and the numbering will start again from 1 for each page.

You can change the starting reference number for your citations by including the startnum tag. The tag should look like <!--startnum=5--> where “5″ is the number you want the footnotes for this page to start at.

Math Expressions

Latex scripting may be accomplished through an installed (and corrected) mimetex plugin. Simply enclose your standard LaTex expression in [ tex] and [/tex].

Note: I’ve had to incorrectly add spaces between ‘[' and 't' in these examples in order to demonstrate the proper script format... otherwise the tags would have created expressions like and .

Examples:

[ tex]x^2 + b x + c = 0 \[/tex] x^2 + b x + c = 0
[ tex]f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt[/tex] f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt

More help:

Page Revisions

Wordpress automatically records your posts and page allowing you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

It may be accessed at the bottom of each document in 'Page Revisions'.

References

  1. Georgopoulos, A. P., Merchant, H., Naselaris, T. & Amirikian, B. (2007). Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, , . [↩]
  2. Georgopoulos, A. P., Merchant, H., Naselaris, T. & Amirikian, B. (2007). Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, , . [↩]