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In this specific video you're going to learn how to create a brand new post in WordPress.
So right now I'm at the WordPress dashboard.
If I click on this "Pen" icon and click on "Add New" I can create a new post.
So as you can see here a post is made up of a title and a body.
So what I need to do is enter the title here, let's say I'm going to name it "Funny T-shirts",
and I'll just enter a bunch of texts here.
And with the texts you can of course bold it, you can italicize, you can create an unordered
list, you can create ordered lists, you can create you can align it, create links to URL's
and other websites, and you can also have a spell checker here.
You can actually toggle to full screen mode if you click on this, basically it removes
everything around it and all you see is the editor itself.
You can show and hide the buttons, you can underline, you can align full, you can change
the color of the text, you can paste text from another editor, you can paste text from
Word, and you can do a lot more from that.
Now up at the top here, when you publish, you can publish it three different ways.
You can publish it publicly. You can stick this post on a front page, you can password
protect it, you can make it private.
If you do make it private then you will require people to become subscribers and register
for the content and so forth if you want to make it exclusive.
We're going to make it public, and you can also publish it immediately or you can publish
it in the future.
So let's say for example, you have 10 different posts and you want to post one every day,
you can actually do that with this option here.
And format is just simply, different formats.
For example, the standard format is going to show, if I click on "Publish" here, I can
show you, and if I click on "View Posts" - right now this is the standard format.
So I have a headline and the text, if I change it to let's say for example, "Link" if there's
a link here, it's just going to show a link.
If it's a "Gallery", I can include a bunch of images and it'll show a gallery.
If it's "Status", then it'll show it kind of like a twitter status, in quotes and images.
"Images" will basically show you the first image that it sees it'll grab, and it'll show
just that image.
And as WordPress updates their system, they're always going to add different formats, and
of course if you go to Google, and just search for: WordPress post format, you can get some
updated information about these formats and as they begin to add more and more about these
different formats.
Now "Categories" here, you can put this post in a specific category.
You can add a new category, let's say "Funny T-shirts News", you can add a category and
add the specific post to that category.
You can create "Subcategories" of these categories, and comments would be, you can add the comments
here.
Revisions are basically, let's say you published it once, and you go ahead and publish it again,
you make some changes, you're going to see revisions here.
So you can actually revert to a previous revision, and if you revert, you can also revert back
or go back to a newer revision.
Tags are basically this: let's say for example you have tags like funny, sad, t-shirts, and
in this case we'd just say "funny, t-shirts".
If I had two other posts with the tags "funny" then if somebody clicks on the tag "funny",
they're going to see this post and the other two, which they're going to see three posts
that are having tags with "funny".
And the "Featured Image" is basically this:
If you go to the live site, and you don't see it now, but we can actually specify a
"Header Image" and if we set the "Featured Image" for a specific post, anytime you view
that specific post or specific page, then you will see the specific set "Featured Image",
and that's pretty much how to create a post.