GeoGebra Institute:Establish a Regional GeoGebra Institutes Website

Here is a quick guide an how to establish a GeoGebra Institute Website like the Austrian GeoGebra Institute running Wordpress.

Creating a blog site

Get in touch with our blog administrator to obtain a Wordpress installation. Please provide the language and the name of the blog (e.g. "Spanish GeoGebra Institutes" if you want to create an umbrella site). You will get an administrator login and password in a response email.

Fine tuning your blog (optional)

• For the Functionality of the Trainer Map like on the AGI-Homepage you have to install the Leaflet Maps Marker plugin from the Wordpress Plugins repository and configure it.
• For the functionality of the forthcoming Dates Module you have to install the Google Calendar Events plugin and configure it. (You have to run your Schedule with Google Calendar.)
• For the functionality of the Contact Form like at the AGI-Homepage you have to install the Contact Form 7 plugin and configure it.

Changing the logo and the language

You may want to change the look of your Wordpress site. Here is how you can do it:

• Edit the header.php under Design-Editor in the Wordpress-Backend. You have to change the Homepage-URL and the Header-Picture format: png, exactly 500x83px):

<a href="http://www.geogebra.org/institutes/at">
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-473" title="geogebra-logo-name-header"
src="http://www.geogebra.org/institutes/at/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/agiheader.png"
alt=""  /></a>

• You may want to change the CSS file as well.
• You may have to go to the following section and change the URL adresses and Language of the GeoGebra-Mainpage menus to your needs beyond.

Contact

• Questions about Wordpress fine tuning should be sent to Kurt Söser.