Writing Posts – Step-by-Step ***Instructions and Video***
(1)Login to your dashboard
(2)Click the Posts “Add New” or “Write” tab.
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(3)Give the Post a descriptive Title and Write your Post.
Note: If you previously wrote your text using a word processor, like Microsoft Word, you will transfer lots of formatting when copying and pasting the text into your WordPress editor. It will produce much unnecessary code(click to “html view” to see). To avoid this first paste your text into a simple text editor like Notepad (all Microsoft operating systems include the Notepad program). This will strip all the formatting from Word into pure text. Then copy and paste from Notepad into WordPress. You will now need to add your formatting as you would like it displayed on your website.
There is a button in the text editor options for pasting text from MS Word, but it is fickle and does not reformat everything. Best to just turn it into plain text then reformat to cleaner HTML code with the WP editor buttons.
5)Saving and Publishing your Posts
As you write your posts, WordPress will begin to autosave your post as a draft. Use the Save or Publish buttons when you are ready.Before publishing the post you can use the Preview button to see how it will look first. Right click on the Preview button then open it in a new window or new tab so you can easily jump back to the write post page.
When you click the Publish button you will then be redirected to a newWrite Post page.The little calendar option just above the Save and Publish buttons will allow you to post date your blog posts. They will remain unpublished and then later go live on the site at your preset date and time. Click the edit link and those options will appear for you.
Your drafts will not be published live onto the website until you select the Publish button. To edit draft posts you’ve not completed and published click on the Manage tab. Here will be the full list of your posts. It will indicate which are published and un-published. Click the Title link of your draft post to continue writing and then publish it.
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