posting on wordpress for absolute beginners
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An absolute beginners guide to blogging with the Wordpress blog system. Wordpress for dummies...TRANSCRIPT
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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