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==How to publish on WordPress== 
=== Text Widget (easy) ===
This works on Wordpress.com as well as self-hosted WordPress installations.

Start by choosing a license for your blog at http://creativecommons.org/choose/. The resulting page will contain the appropriate icons and HTML code. Keep this page open in a separate tab or browser window.

'''1. Go to wordpress.com and sign in. In your dashboard, go to the menu item "Widgets", under "Appearance".'''

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'''2. Find the widget labeled "Text", and drag it to your sidebar or footer. Location is entirely up to you. (yeah, that too!)'''

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'''3. Refer back to the CC license chooser result. Copy the HTML code provided by highlighting it with your mouse and hitting ctrl-c (command-c on a Mac).'''

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'''4. Paste the HTML code in the widget's text box, and click 'Save'.'''

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'''5. This should now display the CC mark. You may style the blog as you wish. If on WordPress.com, you have to use inline styles, unless you have a paid subscription and can change all the CSS of your theme.''' 

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Use this method unless you strongly prefer editing source files or installing plugins and have good reason to do so!

=== Theme PHP files (more difficult) ===

Edit the theme's footer.php or sidebar.php file. Get your license button HTML from http://creativecommons.org/license and paste it into your footer.php (or sidebar.php or wherever you want it to appear).

=== Plugin ===

Use a plugin. This ''might'' be the easiest way, but has some potential for problems if the plugin breaks when you upgrade, or it clashes with another plugin. The widget above is usually a better option.

To do this, use the [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/creative-commons-license-widget/ Creative Commons license widget]. (That page says it's only tested up to WordPress 2.5, but it seems to be working on [http://blogs.appropedia.org/ our version 2.71 blog] without problems. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 04:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)) Note: it's easier to install from the admin interface (click Plugins, then Install) rather than downloading from the link given here.

For the latest, see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa_Plugin_for_WordPress, especially http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa_Plugin_for_WordPress.

== Marking ==
See also [[Marking/Creators]] for marking your website with a CC license.

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