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Hi there! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Roan de Vries<\/a>. I’m 18 years of age and I’m studying music in The Netherlands. I think you can guess my hobby by now, which is making music in general, but specifically playing the guitar<\/a>. Most of you probably never heard of me, but you may have heard about my dad: Remkus de Vries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My experience so far in WordPress has been very limited, but I have<\/em> been to my first WordCamp recently in Antwerp. I’m very keen to learn more about WordPress.<\/p>\n

My dad pointed me to an article<\/a>\u00a0about improving the WordPress New User Experience by creating a more beginning user friendly environment. As I was reading it made me curious how I would perform on those tasks. I thought I’d do my share and give a look inside my head on how I complete a set of four very beginner tasks (as shown in the article).<\/p>\n

Task 1<\/h3>\n

The first task is to add a page to my\u00a0website, with one paragraph of text, and upload two images. So that’s what I’ll be doing first. First I will have to go to make a new page so I will search for anything that says pages in menu I’m seeing. When I found the label pages on the left I click\u00a0and see that I can add a new page and click the Add New Page<\/em> button.<\/p>\n

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When the page reloads\u00a0I can then start to write some text. \u00a0Obviously it had to be about my favorite guitar \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Before I start typing in the editor, I’m going to add a title to the post as mentioned in the task. Next up I start dreaming about the perfect guitar I have in my mind and writing it out. When I’m done outlining all that would go into my perfect guitar, I now have to add two images to the post to illustrate what it would look like. But also because that’s the next task.<\/p>\n

Finding the Add media<\/em> button between the text and the title is pretty straight forward, although when I think of pictures<\/em> I don’t necessarily think about media<\/em>, but I assume that’s the button I need to click.<\/p>\n

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Turns out I’m right. Next, \u00a0a pop-up appears in where I can choose to select the images where I need them to be. It’s pretty obvious to me that the button select files<\/em>\u00a0is the one that I need to click to select the images\u00a0I want to add. Upon clicking that I can navigate to the folder om my computer to select the images I want and add them.<\/p>\n

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What’s not so obvious is the screen I’m presented with when the images have uploaded. I’m seeing a lot of options that are not clear in what the implication of choosing one option of the other is. I find this confusing, but since the task is to add to images, I’m going to do just that by inserting them into the page.<\/p>\n

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Once I added the images\u00a0to my post it will look something like the picture below. I of course placed them in a way so they don’t get in the way of the text. This is done by clicking on the image and choosing an alignment.<\/p>\n

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After I did that it looked something like the picture shown above. After that I pressed the publish button shown in the top right corner of the image.<\/p>\n

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Task 2<\/h3>\n

The second task I have to complete is adding a theme or template to the site. It means I have to change the way my site looks so I’m going to be searching for anything that hints to that subject. I see that there’s an Appearance option on the left and when I put my mouse over it I see the word themes so I click that.<\/p>\n

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I am presented with a\u00a0menu where there are themes from wich I can choose. When I hover over the theme there is an Activate button, so to me that’s kind of logical that that would make that theme active on my site so I click that.<\/p>\n

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Now that the theme is installed I want to see how it looks on my site of course. After a bit of searching I can see that above the theme I just installed is a text saying visit site<\/em>. I click that and it leads me to my site where I can see my theme.<\/p>\n

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Of course I now want to go back to menu where I can manage my site so I can go on to the next task. I see my website’s name at the top right and when I hover over I see dashboard so I click that cause thats where I want to go. Figuring that out was not straight forward as I expected to see a word like Dashboard or Admin.<\/p>\n

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Task 3<\/h3>\n

In the third task I have to add a gallery. After quite a while of searching I find out that if you make a post there is an option for making the post a gallery. So the first thing I do is make a new post by click add new<\/em>\u00a0when hovering over the post button on the left.<\/p>\n

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When the page reloads I can see that on the right I have the option to make the post a gallery so obviously I thought i could create a gallery by selecting that option. However, selecting gallery didn’t do anything, not even when saving the post as a draft triggered what I thought was going to happen.<\/p>\n

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So, I ended up having to ask my dad how to actually create a gallery. Not obvious at all as it turns out. The way to create a gallery is by creating\u00a0a (new) post and then use the add media button.<\/p>\n

It’s very easy to miss but the screen presented when I click the button has an option on the left that says create a gallery.<\/p>\n

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Next up I select the images I want to have in my gallery and click the create a new gallery<\/em> button on the bottom right. After that I see the screen below and click the insert gallery<\/em> button.<\/p>\n

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And finally I add a title to my gallery post and press publish as shown in the image below.<\/p>\n

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Task 4<\/h3>\n

In the last task I have to add a link to my last post that directs me back to the homepage of my site. My last post is the gallery I just added so I will look for an option to add a link. First, I have to copy the web adres of my site’s homepage so I will go to the homepage first. I click my site’s name in the left top corner en click the right mouse button and choose the Open in new tab<\/em>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n

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Once opened, I copy the web adres to my clipboard and return to the post left in the other browser tab.<\/p>\n

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I then paste the link in the add link section that just appeared in post. After that I click the options button next to the link I just added to see what I can change.<\/p>\n

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I then see that I can change what the link looks like so I add the text homepage so people will know that if they click on it they will return to the homepage. After that I click update to change the link to ‘homepage’. Relatively straight forward to add the link, but actually being able to copy that link is not that easy as I think it should be.<\/p>\n

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When all this is done, I first want to update the post so I do this by pressing update on right of the screen. The second part of the task is that I can see my site the way other people would see it. I did this already in one of the previous tasks so I know what to do. I click the name of my site and it redirects me to the site as a visitor would see it.<\/p>\n

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The final results looks something like the image below.<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/h2>\n

By going through all these tasks I learned that doing basic things, like these four tasks, can sometimes be quite challenging. Surprisingly, the most difficult task turned out the be the add new gallery. I have the luck of having a dad who is quite the WordPress specialist so if I need any assistance I just have to call for him across the room, but I do see that this is not a privilege every beginning user has \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n

I think it’s really important that exercises into New User Experiences\u00a0need to happen more in the WordPress community to improve the overall user experience. I’m relatively internet savvy, but I haven’t used WordPress myself outside of automatically importing my Instagram feed into my personal blog. Something my dad set up by the way.<\/p>\n

I’ve stuck to doing to tasks as literal as possible, but as I was clicking through the WordPress admin I noticed a lot of things that made me curious what was behind it and how it would work. All in all it works fairly straight forward to use, but there’s also a lot of things happening that is not making a lot of sense to a first time user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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