WordPress – FAQs for Traci's Classes http://faq.tracigardner.com Answers to All The Things! Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:44:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 How Do I Embed Prezi or Haiku Deck on WordPress.com? http://faq.tracigardner.com/how-do-i-embed-prezi-on-wordpress-com/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:39:32 +0000 http://faq.tracigardner.com/?p=278 Bad news. You cannot. Both tools use iframes, which are not allowed on the WordPress.com site.

You can link to the Prezi or Haiku Deck. If you want to make the page include a graphic, you can take a screenshot of your first slide, and then make that image link to the presentation site.

You’d wind up with something like this:

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How do I embed Google Slides on WordPress.com? http://faq.tracigardner.com/how-do-i-embed-google-slides-on-wordpress-com/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:01:57 +0000 http://faq.tracigardner.com/?p=275 You can use Google’s embed code to add a Google Slide presentation (or any other file on your Google Drive) to your WordPress.com. There are full instructions in WordPress’s documentation.

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How Do I Embed PowerPoint on WordPress.com? http://faq.tracigardner.com/how-do-i-embed-powerpoint-on-wordpress-com/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 04:12:32 +0000 http://faq.tracigardner.com/?p=219 WordPress.com does not allow you to embed PowerPoint directly. You can upload your PowerPoint presentation as Media (like adding an image), and add a link to your PowerPoint. It won’t show up on your WordPress page however.

To include the presentation itself on the page, you can use one of the following methods:

Visit the Slideshare.net site:
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You will need to either create a login or login by connecting to LinkedIn or Facebook:

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Once you have logged in, click the Upload button in the upper right corner:

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On the Upload page, click the Upload button. Leave the setting as Public.

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Navigate to the PowerPoint file on your machine, and click Open:

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Wait while the file uploads and is processed. Be sure to add a Category and Description (they’re required). Click Save & Continue:

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Copy the embed code from the middle of the next screen:

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Go to the WordPress page where you want the presentation to appear. Click on the Text tab on the right (rather than the Visual tab), and paste the embed code in. Publish your page.

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Once your page is published (or saved), you will see the shortcode for your SlideShare presentation. WordPress.com automatically converts the embed code to this format:

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View your WordPress page. The PowerPoint presentation will show up on the page, as shown here:

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NOTE: you can find some additional details on using SlideShare in the WordPress.com documentation.

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