Once you have an account you should update your profile to include your job title, the organization you are a part of and a a few sentences about the focus of your work. You can do this in the ‘profile’
Tutorial: Setting up an avatar for Sorghumbase through Gravatar
Your avatar for Sorghumbase can be set up through Gravatar. Gravatar is a website affiliated with WordPress.com, the organization/company, that allows users to use that same avatar across multiple websites and apps. Slack, for instance, supports avatars through Gravatar. It
Tutorial: How to add a Blog post, News item, Tool, Tutorial or Project to Sorghumbase
Most content types of Sorghumbase are stored in the WordPress Content Management System as a Post of a certain category. This means they have the basic structure of the title of the content together with the body of the content.
Tutorial: Adding a FAQ to Sorghumbase
Frequently Asked Questions are meant to answer initial questions users might have about Sorghumbase, the intent of the portal or the team behind it. Users can add FAQ’s to WP by creating a blog post and categorizing this post as
What is Sorghumbase?
Sorghumbase aims to be a portal that enables researchers and growers of sorghum to exploit data management resources, relevant biological knowledge, and genetic resources in a manner that effectively addresses the needs of the sorghum community and increases our ability
Tutorial: Adding a Job posting to Sorghumbase
As a part of being a resource for the sorghum community Sorghumbase had a section to gather and display job postings for the community. These can be found at http://sorghumbase.org/jobs. A user can add a new job posting to Sorghumbase
Tutorial: Adding an Event to Sorghumbase
The goal of Sorghumbase is to provide the sorghum community with relevant information about developments in the industry. This includes informing users of events that might be of interest to them. The Event section at http://sorghumbase.org/events displays such events. To
Tutorial: Adding a Scientific Paper to Sorghumbase
Sorghumbase has a section labeled “Research”, https://www.sorghumbase.org/research, that lists publications in scientific literature that is of interest to the sorghum community. Below is an example how a relevant paper is displayed on Sorghumbase. Contributors to Sorghumbase can add scientific papers
Tutorial: Adding an image to the media library
To keep images in one place we ask everyone to upload images to the WordPress media library. When uploading files please make sure to use a descriptive file name. To add an image to the library, log into the WordPress