On of the questions that seems to pop up in quite a few conversations is how to post new topics or update old posts to there WordPress blogsite. I have been posting the article or making the updates for them since it doesn’t really take all that long. Anyhoo this is what this article is all about, “How to post information to your WordPress™ account”. I should also say that there are other ways but this is the most comfortable way that I have found. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this information I will try to answer any questions that I can or I will get you to the right place to get them answered.
The first items you will need of course is your UserID and Password to access your website. Once you have recieved those items you can go to the administrator login page and login. Most of the time it will be a URL or web address something like this “http://www.tcswebhost.com/wp-admin”. In the example I used one of my websites, you would need to substitute the underlined section with your website address. You should be taken to a web page that asks for your Username and Password. If you have forgotten it you can click on “lost your password?” and enter your email address where a link will be emailed to you to reset the password”.
Entering your Username and Password you will have a administrator page in front of you this is backside of your website, this page controls what everyone sees when they go to your website. Take a look at the different sections on the lefthand side of the admin page you will see a vertical list of options, if you click on any of these options they will open a page on the right side to give more detail to the option on the left. To start click on the “dashboard” at the very top this will put you in the default admin page. right below on the left side there is a section labled “Posts”. This section is where you will find the options that we are focusing on in this article.
Click on “Add New” under the post header in the left column of options. The right portion of the page opens you will see a section for the title and then a section for the body below. Type something in the title bar, the name to your article or anything else. You need to type something in the title bar so the autoupdate function can save your draft automatically in case of timeing out or if you have any problems with your computer. Once you get your title entered then start typing in the bottom section normally the page will open up in the “visual mode” that is the mode where you just type and it will appear just as you typed it. You might have another tab up on the right hand side of the body section showing HTML next the the VISUAL tab. make sure that you have it in VISUAL mode for this work in progress. there is a horizontal line of objects right above the body section these control the text that you are going to type. If you hover over each item then you will see the name of the item. you can apply these features to the text or content that you have typed in the body section. play around with it and check some of the features out. The features are pretty self explanitory so play around with them and use what you like. Once you have typed or posted some information in the body you will notice the back up system has auto-saved your content so you won’t lose it.
This last section is how to make the information you just created available to the website. Once you have typed something in the body. look over to the farthest right column you will see a heading “Publish” here is where you can save a draft or publish the document or article you just created. you also have an option to delet by clicking on the “move to trash” option. Click on the “Publish” button on the bottome of the publish section, this will publish the page…your done you post has been created and published on the website. See not so hard. If you want to go back and edit now or maybe later, you can edit this page at any time. Go back to the farthest left column and click on posts. you should see your article listed in the middle section of the page you will have options as hover over the name of the article. once you have changed the page click on publish and the new settings have been saved. now you done.
If you have any questions about how to add pictures or creating special content I will have other articles later that will help with managing them too…
