Your Handy Word Press User’s Guide

Making A Post – The Core Function Of Blogging

There is some great info in this report but the truth is the heart of any blogging campaign is the content. You need lots of content to really get the most out of your blog.

You don’t need to be the best writer or the smartest cookie on the planet. You just need to post often! The more content you have displayed through keyword optimized URLs the more often the search engine spiders will crawl your blog. And since we have pre-loaded your update list with over 100 great RSS directories frequent posting will create a ton of links back to your blog, more RSS subscribers, and a good deal of targeted traffic.

Once you are in your dashboard just click on the ‘Write” link, second option from the left on your top menu.

This will bring you to the most important admin section in your Dashboard – the area where you create content and either save it for future use or post it to your web log right away.

View the image on the next page. It was too large to fit on this page and it displays on overview of everything you need to make a post with your WordPress blogging software.

As you can see above, creating a post is much like composing an email. There’s nothing to it!

Title – Give your article a title, and it’s best to use a solid keyword phrase if you can. I mean the title primarily needs to be attractive to human eyes, but if you can also drop a keyword or two in it will help with your SEO.

Body – Obviously the large text area is where you add the main content for your post. You can type right from your Dashboard or you can copy and paste from another document.

Be aware that pasting from other documents can pose some problem. If you pull content from a Web page the font will appear in your post exactly as it does on the page you copied from, so you could end up with odd font styles, colors etc. Also avoid copying and pasting material from Microsoft Word as often this will conflict with the code and disrupt your entire template. I recommend first pasting content into Notepad and then copying it from there before pasting directly into WordPress.

Visual Editor – Though it can be disabled through ‘Options’ by default WordPress gives you a simple visual editor for creating your posts. Use the icons above the body text area to make basic effect changes to your content.

The exact functions you have available will vary with the version of WordPress you have installed but the visual editor works a lot like your favorite word processor, giving you such user-friendly options as bold, italic, underline, converting highlighted text to hyperlink, etc.

Category Selection – Be sure to select the category or categories you want your post to appear within. You might choose multiple categories and that’s fine, but also be aware for SEO purposes you might just choose the most relevant category, as the category you choose will become part of the actual page URL.

Saving Your Posts – You can save a post as a draft and then finish it at a later time if you choose. Do this of course by clicking the Save button.

Publishing Your Posts – To publish your post immediately just click the Publish button. There is a convenient ‘View Site’ link in the top left corner of your dashboard that will let you jump over to the public side and be sure your post went live.

Pre-Scheduling Your Posts – WordPress also has a great feature that allows you to pre-schedule as many posts as you like, so for example you could enter five or six articles and have them all go live on your blog over the course of a week. This is a big advantage because if you really feel like doing a lot of writing at any given time you can spread the updates out over a longer period of time.

Read the full guide downloading free :

A basic blog guilde
This short manual will provide you with a quick overview of how to use your new blog. Since our blogs come with most of the pre-configuration already done for you, the contents of this PDF will focus only on management of an existing Web Log.
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