It’s the middle of spring break, so only one student showed up at my office hours/workshop this evening. We started around 4:40 pm and ended an hour later. Specifically, we:
- Reviewed how to change directories in the terminal and update her theme from the main Git repository.
- Increased the number of images appearing on the homepage of her website. This also involved the Git workflow of committing her changes and pushing them to the origin repository.
- Hid a couple of elements using CSS. She has a good grasp of how to do basic CSS.
- Enabled the “ShareThis” plugin on single posts with the Twitter and Facebook buttons.
The project site is functionally complete. She wants to update the photo content before promoting it.
Her next big project is to convert the portfolio website mockups she’s done into a WordPress theme. I told her to read through the WordPress.org documentation as much as she can, and try to outline all of the files she might need. Content first, then markup, then polishing it with CSS. I think I’ll put together a workshop next week on building or modifying WordPress themes and promote it heavily.