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Posting On Wordpress for Absolute Beginners

1. Wordpress for beginners Publishing on a Wordpress blog Joris Roebben ( [email_address] )
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 4. Your first peak at Wordpress
   • This is an example of a starting page in the Wordpress backend
7. 5. Change your password
8. 6. Start your first post
9. 6. Start your first post
   • The title : this is your post title. Choose a catchy and clear title.
10. 6. Start your first post
    • The frame where you can write your post text (resembles the Microsoft Word interface)
11. 6. Start your first post
    • Checkboxes where you can indicate your posts category
    • Choose one or more appropriate categories
    • If none available, create a new one
12. 7. Add a picture to your post
    • Upload a picture from your system
    • Add a good title (will be used as alt)
13. 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 ”
14. 7. Add a picture to your post
15. 7. Add a picture to your post
    • Postion the picture
    • Alignment Left or Right
16. 7. Add a picture to your post
    • Result:
17. 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
18. 9. Your first post
19. 10. Adding a YouTube video to your posts
    • You can add a YouTube video to your post
    • Find video on YouTube and copy URL
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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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