Now that you have WordPress installed, there are a few changes you'll want to make before you start writing blog posts. This video will show you how to update your blog's title, description, URL, default category, and permalinks. 13 minutes, 48 seconds
Prerequisites:
A WordPress blog, installed on a web host. If you don’t have this, please go through the previous videos in this series.
Your WordPress login information.
You’ll learn:
How to log into your WordPress blog
How to customize the basic WordPress settings
End result if you follow along: You’ll have a WordPress blog and you’ll be ready to start writing blog posts.
Writing content is the heart of blogging. Learn about WordPress posts and pages: what they are, how to create them, and how to edit them. 34 minutes, 38 seconds
Prerequisites:
A WordPress blog, installed on a web host. If you don’t have this, please go through the previous videos in this series.
Your WordPress login information.
You’ll learn:
The difference between pages and posts
How to create blog posts and WordPress Pages
What the post and page settings do
How to edit pages and posts
End result if you follow along: You’ll be able to start blogging for real!
Many bloggers write their posts in a program like Microsoft Word and then copy and paste them into WordPress.
This is a good way to keep a backup copy on your own computer, but Microsoft Word does some weird things with your text behind-the-scenes, and the results when you paste it into your blog can be odd. It varies depending on what kind of content you’ve written, but common issues include:
The font is different from the rest of the blog (the specific font used, the size, or both)
There are lots of extra spaces
When you view your post, it ends unexpectedly without showing the whole thing
Fortunately, WordPress has a special “Paste from Word” button that gets rid of the extra junk that Word puts in. To get to it, you just click the “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink” button (yes, it’s really called that… but it looks like paint chips to me…) and the “Paste from Word” button shows up.
The short video below shows the button in action (there’s no sound, so don’t worry about turning your speakers up).
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