Posting On Wordpress for Absolute Beginners

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Wordpress for beginners Publishing on a Wordpress blog Joris Roebben ([email protected] )

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An absolute beginners guide to blogging with the Wordpress blog system. Wordpress for dummies...

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Wordpress for beginnersPublishing on a Wordpress blog

Joris Roebben ([email protected])

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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4. Your first peak at Wordpress

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

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5. Change your password

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6. Start your first post

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6. Start your first post

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

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6. Start your first post

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

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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

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7. Add a picture to your post

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

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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”

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7. Add a picture to your post

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7. Add a picture to your post

• Postion the picture

• Alignment Left or Right

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7. Add a picture to your post

• Result:

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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

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9. Your first post

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10. Adding a YouTube video to your posts

• You can add a YouTube video to your post

• Find video on YouTube and copy URL

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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

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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

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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

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12. Adding links to your post

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13. Q & A