About EphHampton

The purpose of EphHampton is to allow the extended family from “The Hamp” ‘06 keep in touch.  In general terms, the main ‘blog’ is for posting announcements/big news/travel plans et cetera so we can all get together in the vast lands of Real Life. The ‘pages’ are for updating current whereabouts, contact information, et cetera.

If you would like to be made an EphHampton author:

1. Graduate from Williams College (sniff)
2. Make a WordPress account for yourself
3. E-mail Joe with the e-mail address you used to register for WordPress

For those unfamiliar with WordPress, following this are some miscellaneous how-to guides for doing the basic things you’ll want to do here:

How to make a news post

1. Log in
2. From the main EphHampton page, click the “Site Admin” link under the “Meta” heading–towards the bottom of the sidebar on the right-hand side of the main page
3. Click the “Write” button on the horizontal bar at the top of the page
4. Type a headline and body and click “Publish” to put your news up on the front page

How to make a new page for yourself

1. Log in
2. From the main EphHampton page, click the “Site Admin” link under the “Meta” heading–towards the bottom of the sidebar on the right-hand side of the main page
3. Click the “Write” button on the horizontal bar at the top of the page
4. Click the “Write Page” button that appears directly under the “Write” button you just pressed
5. Type a title (let’s try to keep these to people’s names, for now) and body and click “Publish” to create your page

How to edit a page you previously created

1. Log in
2. From the main EphHampton page, click the “Site Admin” link under the “Meta” heading–towards the bottom of the sidebar on the right-hand side of the main page
3. Click the “Manage” button on the horizontal bar at the top of the page
4. Click the “Manage Pages” button that appears in the bar under the “Manage” button you just pressed
5. Find your page in the table and click the “edit” link that appears in your page’s table entry
6. Make whatever changes you like, e.g. updating your whereabouts, and then click “Publish”

How to change your use profile options (the way your name displays, password, etc)

1. Log in
2. From any page, look in the top-right corner for a link that reads, “My Account” and click that
3. Change anything you like; the first option lets you change the way your name is displayed, other options let you change your e-mail address, the very last thing lets you reset your password
   • Important: If you leave the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields blank, any post you make on the front page will show a blank space instead of an author name when you make a post. Fill in one or both of these fields and then the stuff you write on the main blog page will actually show up as written by you.
4. Click the “Update Profile” button at the bottom of the page when you finish