Create or Edit a Post in WordPress

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Hi, this is Jason from Grow My Business and this is how you add a simple post to your website. So, um, here we’ve logged into the dashboard. If you haven’t done this before, dunno how. Uh, please refer to our other video which will be linked on how to log into your WordPress site.

But to start off, so we’ve started here and this is the default landing screen. When you log in and you’ll see here there’s a post bit in your sidebar. Click that and you can see we’ve got a bunch of just like filler posts here. So all we want to do to add a new one is click add new, and then here we want to use the default editor and we can add a title.

So we’ll call this example post, and then here we can just add any text we want. So hello. But then also it says we can use forward slash, now we can choose certain blocks and things to add into our post, like headings, galleries, lists, quotes, whatever you want really.

So this is just add an image in. So now we’ve got this thing here and we can either upload or we can go straight to the media library where we might have something pre uploaded. So we’ll just use this photo slick that. And you can see it’s been brought in here.

And you can see over here we’ve got some default settings now under the block. So post is everything to do with the whole post and block is for each one of your elements and sell your post. So you can see here for text is the same thing with uh, the text color, the background color, and then some real simple presets for how you want it to display.

So we’ll keep that one small for now. And here we can do some things. So we can have it at quarter half, three quarters or full, or we can change the individual pixel ratios here. And it’s got the same idea here of using different image sizes and bam, uh, alt text. You might want to you, it is recommended you do this for SEO. So, uh, group of of people and art classroom.

So that helps screen readers as well. So people that are vision impaired, it’s a good descriptor of what the image is. You can sprinkle in keywords relay to your post or page. And then there’s some other basic things here like rounded default.

But by doing it this way, uh, it your, all your media should uh, be applied with the same default presets as the rest of your website to make sure it’s consistent. So going back to the global post styles here you can see we’ve got visibility. So public, private, so only you’ll be able to see it or password protected.

I would always keep it public. And then just use publish to if you want it to be published or draft. So once we click publish, We’ll show you again and this will say draft published, et cetera. And here you can stick it to the top of the blog. Uh, you can see it for pending review.

If you’re an editor of the site, you can choose different authors. Currently we just have the one here. And then you’ve got categories. These are pretty important. So to help categorize your work obviously. But you can also add new ones here.

So we can call this video example or you can also choose if this is a parent or something. So we’ll put it as the parent is of example. I mean the child of example, add it in. Now you can see it’s indented there, meaning it’s a child of example.

Down here. Tags are the same concept, but these are a bit more, um, well they’re top level only. So there’s no hierarchical stuff like we have up here. But I’d use tags to be a bit more descriptive with your content. So you could say this is for saving money hypothetically, where you might only have that tag once.

And so there’s no real point having as a category and the next tier featured image, you almost always want to have a featured image and we can just use the same one twice. If we sit there as a featured image, we have it there. You can put an excerpt in.

This is entirely optional. Usually you’ll just grab the first 120 words for your post for how it’s displayed. And then once you’re happy with all of this, you can click publish. You can see it’s instantly published here. But now if we go back, you can see here the publish date and you can change that.

Oh, I have to refresh it first. Yep. Now we have the switch to draft. So if you wanna bring it back to draft now, you’ll only be able to see it in the back end and you can then publish it again. And if we view the post on the front end, here you go.

So as you can see, it usually pulls in the featured image first anyway. So point this here, not really that required, but for an example it works pretty well. If we look back at the blog, you can now see it’s here as well.

Cheers.