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Starting a WordPress BlogStep-by-Step Guide
20/07/11
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1. Enter the website address:
Enter the website address: http://wordpress.com/
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2. Click on ‘Get started here’
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Click here
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3. Create a website address for your blog
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Enter the name for your blog
Click on ‘No thanks’ if for a free blog if you are happy to have .wordpress.com on the end of your address
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4. Enter the rest of the details
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Enter your username
Enter your email address
Click on Sign Up
Enter a password
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5. Check your email to complete registration
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5. …
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Click to activate your blog
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5. Your blog is now active! You can now login
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Click on login
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6. Enter your username and password
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Enter username
Enter password
Click on Log In
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7. Take a look around your dashboard
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This is the behind-the-scenes bit of your blog, where you’ll create and organise content for your blog
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8. Let’s start by creating a post
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Click on posts
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9. Click on ‘Add New’
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Here
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10. Start by adding a title, and then write your
post in the box below
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Add a title for your post
write your post here
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11. Now we will add a link to another website
from your post
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Select the word ‘WordPress’
Type in the address http://wordpress.com
Add the title WordPress
Click on Add Link
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12. Switch from Visual view to HTML view
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Click on HTML
Visual view let’s you see the post as it appears to someone visiting your blog
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13. When you have had a look at HTML view,
switch back to the Visual view.
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HTML view enables you to see your blog post as *HTML markup language.
See how the link is displayed?
*See this article on Wikipedia if you’d like more information on HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
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14. ‘Upload/insert’ an image
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Click on the ‘Upload/insert an image icon (the rectangle)
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15. Find and add a photo
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Click on browse
Click on Upload
Photo courtesy: Alvaro Alegria
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16. Add details, including a title and caption
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Add photo title
Add a caption
Photo courtesy: Alvaro Alegria
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17. We are now going to publish the post
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Photo courtesy: Alvaro Alegria
Click on publish (if you want to preview it first, click on preview).
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18. To see your post, click on ‘view post’
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Photo courtesy: Alvaro Alegria
‘View post’
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19. This is the blog with the new post
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As you can see, a default template that has been used. Next we’ll change the design. To do that we need to go back to the Dashboard.
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20. Go back to the Dashboard
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Go to My Blog>Dashboard
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21. To change the theme/look of your blog
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Click on appearance
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22. Pick a WordPress theme
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Click on Activate to choose another theme, or view what it would look like first with Preview
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23. We can also change the number and type of
pages on our site
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Click on Pages
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24. Go to About>Edit
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Click on Edit
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25. Edit your ‘About’ page, then Update
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Add your textClick on Update
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Bravo!
You’ve now learnt how to:
- start a WordPress blog
- write your first post with text and a photo
- change the theme/appearance of your blog
- edit your About page
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