How To Add A Post In Wordpress.

In this post I would like to walk you through the basic features you will find when writing a post in Wordpress.

The first step, as always starts by logging into your Wordpress admin area.

Once inside your dashboard, on the left of your screen, there is a link in the sidebar under the Posts tab with the text Add New.

Click on it to continue.

The screen that opens, is your writing, editing screen.

This is where you create your post. I have numbered each of the sections you will need to fill out when writing your posts and have added a desciption of each of these below the image.

1. The Post Title. This is the area where you insert the title of your post, By changing the default permalink settings, your post title will also show up in the URL.
2. The WYSIWYG editor and Visual, HTML viewing tabs. The WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress performs similar functions as a Word processing program like Microsoft Word for example, but the options for changing text, fonts, and other special characters in your text are very limited and basic, If you would like to add extra features to your WYSIWYG editor, I highly recommend the TinyMCE plugin.
3. Your Post Content. This is where you write your post, insert images etc…
4. Save Draft. By clicking on the Save Draft button you can save your post without publishing it to the internet.
5. Publish. When you are ready to publish your post to the internet click on the Publish button.
6. Post Tags. This where you can add tags specifically related to the post content and category.
7. Categories. Choose the category of the post.

Located just below your Content editing area is the Excerpt section.

Excerpts are optional summaries of your post content that can be used in your theme. Not all themes use excerpts, so test this feature with your theme, but it’s a good idea to fill in this section just in case you ever decide to change your theme to one that does use excerpts.

If the text has already been added to the Excerpt section, it will automatically show up when the new theme is activated, saving you from having to come back later to add it.

If we take a look further down our post editing screen, you will see the section where you can choose to accept comments on your post.

If you decided not to accept comments as a default function in the Discussion section in your Settings, by checking the Allow Comments and Trackback feature here, you will overide that setting for specific posts.

1. Send Trackbacks. Trackbacks are similar to comments on other blogs, Use this feature when you write a review or mention another post in your article, this will send a link back to your post from the original article.
2. Custom Fields. Custom fields can be used to add extra meta-data to a post, they can also be used in conjunction with certain plugins.
3. Discussion. You decide if you want to receive Comments or Trackbacks to specific posts.

It is not nesercary for you to fill in all of the feilds when adding a new posts to your site, but I suggest the absolute minimum should be…

• Post Title.
• Post Content.
• Tags.
• Categories.

Whether you decide to allow comments and Trackbacks is entirely up to you, not every post you write will have a refference to another post, so you won’t need to worry about sending Trackbacks all that often.

But by filing the four basic sections listed above, you will be adding enough of the nesercary information to build a well structured post.

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