Wordpress for beginnersPublishing on a Wordpress blog

Joris Roebben (joris.roebben@queromedia.com)

1. What is Wordpress?

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

2. What do you need?

• All you need to publish is an account• Ask the blog responsible or system

administrator to create an account for you

• You’ll get a login name and password

3. Log into the Wordpress blog

• On the blog, look for login link

• Click on it• On the login

page, fill out your username and password

3. Login to the Wordpress blog

• If you can’t find a login link, just type wp-login.php behind the domain name in your browser

• http://www.yourblog.com/wp-login.php

4. Your first peak at Wordpress

• This is an example of a starting page in the Wordpress backend

5. Change your password

6. Start your first post

6. Start your first post

• The title: this is your post title. Choose a catchy and clear title.

6. Start your first post

• The frame where you can write your post text (resembles the Microsoft Word interface)

6. Start your first post

• Checkboxes where you can indicate your posts category

• Choose one or moreappropriate categories

• If none available, create a new one

7. Add a picture to your post

• Upload a picture from your system• Add a good title (will be used as alt)

7. Add a picture to your post

• Set pointer in text editor where you want picture

• Link to: choose the way you want your picture to behave (as a link to the file, as a link to a page with only the picture or no link at all)

• Click “Send to editor”

7. Add a picture to your post

7. Add a picture to your post

• Postion the picture

• Alignment Left or Right

7. Add a picture to your post

• Result:

8. Saving and publishing your post

• Click “Save and continue editing” to stay on post page

• Click “Save” to save and exit post page

• Click “Publish” to publish post on website

9. Your first post

10. Adding a YouTube video to your posts

• You can add a YouTube video to your post

• Find video on YouTube and copy URL

10. Adding YouTube videos to your posts

• Find the YouTube button(*) in the Wordpress editor and click it

• Paste YouTube URL in box

(*) Viper’s video quicktags plugin

11. Using the “more” option

• Possibility to only show introduction on home page followed by “read the rest of this entry” or “read more”

• Click “more” button while pointer at desired position in editor

12. Adding links to your post

• Select the words / picture you want to link

• Click link button• Add link URL• Click insert

• To remove link click remove link button

12. Adding links to your post

13. Q & A