The Brass Tacks of Creating a Wordpress Post
Please read “The Brass Tacks of Creating a Wordpress Page” first to learn the toolbar functions.
If your new blog will be in journal form, where you post ideas and events chronologically, rather than a collection of articles, you can write your entries as posts. Before you begin your first post, go to the WP dashboard and create some categories that your posts can be filed under. If you are just doing chronological updates on your daily doings, you may not need categories. The posts will just show up with the most recent first.
To create categories go to the box that says Posts at the left side of the dashboard. Scroll over it, and a gray down-arrow will appear. Click on the arrow and choose Categories. A new screen will open wherein you can add a category name. You can choose to add a Parent also, which would make your new category a subcategory of the parent. If you desire, you can also add a description. After you’ve filled in the blanks, click on Add Category. Your category will appear in the categories list to the right.
Whenever you create a new post from now on, you’ll choose it’s category from the list showing at the right of the dashboard.
Post Tags
Tags are words that are often search for when people search the internet. They’re also key words that fit the subject matter of your post. You can add tag words and then just select them for future posts. Say you have 100 entries on your blog and three of them are about your trip to Disneyland. If you enter “Disneyland” as one of your tags, someone reading your blog months later can pull up those three posts by searching for the tag. You could also create a Disneyland category, and they could pull up the posts under that category. The area for chosing tags is just above the categories list on the dashboard.
We’ve added an image to the post from our hard drive. The post now looks like this:
Now click the Publish button. To see your post, click on View Post above the edit box.
This is how the post looks on the page.
