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WordPress Lesson 2: Adding Posts and Pages To WordPress
Hello and Welcome Back to our video series on WordPress
Today I'll be showing you how to add new Posts and Pages
within your new WordPress website.
To do this, the first what we're going to do is log into our WordPress dashboard.
From here we're going to choose either posts or pages
Right now i'm going to choose posts so just do that for right now
Here is a list of all the different posts we have. Since this is a new installation
we're not going to have any posts unless its the WordPress default.
but if you want to add a new post all we have to do is choose "Add New" at the top
and from here we are taken to the add new post creation page
Here is where we setup all the different stuff up for the new posts so we can publish to our website
So up at the top we want to name our post.
and down here is the actual text thats going to be within our post
we can not only insert text but videos, music, and other different things like powerpoint slides.
All we have to do is click down here and this little box we can begin editing
For example "this is my first wordpress post" we can do a few different things to change
up the way it looks. For example we can highlight a word and choose to make it bold, italic and even strokethrough
we can also set the allignment of our website whether it be left, center, or right
URLs are actually really easy, all you need to do is highligh the word
Click on this little chain link, and you can type in the URL to the website you want.
You can also add pictures and videos like i was saying. To do that all you need to do
is click on the image or video icon and select a certain file.
and just like that its uploaded. With a few different things you can change up
when you upload a picture or video, specifically you can change the title of the image.
any alternate text to it, a caption to for it. An author, or photographer, and a brief decription of it.
Not all WordPress themes display descriptions so it’s not necessary you enter in a description, a caption, or alternate text.
we can also choose whether or not the picture will link to itself.
So if someone wanted to actually view the image at a bigger scale they can click the image.
or you can select none and it won't link anywhere. We can also the image's allignment
whether its left, center, or right. And we can choose the default size of the image that appears on the post.
Once everything is selected, go ahead and click the insert into post button.
And it should be as simple as that to enter it into our post.
and as you can see just like that its inserted into our post.
few other things we can choose to edit on here is we can save this as a draft to back to it at a later time.
we can also preview it to see what it looks like on the web.
and we can also choose to publish it now. If you'd like to publish it at a later date,
we can edit it right here. we choose at what time and date a post will post. You can write a bunch of articles this way and have them post later.
Once done go ahead and click publish and it should give you a successful post message once done.
editing pages is very simliar to this process and to do that goto the page tab.
Here we're taken to another list of the pages found on our website.by default there is a sample page.
So say we wanted to delete it for example, hover over it and choose Trash. and its just as simple as that to delete a page.
If we wanted to add a new page its just as simple to do that as post. Click add new up at the top.
We want to choose the title of the page as oppose to title of a post so for example if this is a contact page.
And in here just like in posts we can go ahead and put in our different captions or context thats going to be in our website.
and just like adding a new post we can add images up here, videos, media and etc.
Ok, and just like adding a new post we can choose if its a draft, or preview it before posting.
One thing thats different from a post is our page attributes.These are usually set by whatever templelate or theme you have installed.
If you have just a basic theme your not going to have any choices here. But depending on the different themes will depend on the choices
Well that about does it for adding pages and posts to a WordPress website. Please stay tuned for more WordPress videos.
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