All right, so let's jump right into those posts are the articles on your site.
This is all about what blogging is about.
Is this section right here?
So over here on the left hand side, you see posts.
If you want to create a new post, you come over here.
If you click on post, you will see a little fly out like you do with some of these other ones.
Or if you just click on post, you're going to go to all post and you're going to see them all dropdown
over here.
So by default, WordPress puts in a post called Hello World.
There's some basic information and it is a placeholder, something for you to take a look at.
Now, spammers are looking for this page title in his post title right here.
So I typically trash it pretty much right away.
But we're going to use this as an example to see some of the different options for posting.
All right.
So let's jump right into it here.
So hello, World is the title.
I can either click on that or and click on the edit to edit that post.
Or if I just know I want to add a new one and come up here to the add new and just create a new black
blog post.
That's completely blank.
But I've, I'm mouse over this.
You're going to get a couple different options.
I can edit the full post which lets me do everything I can do, quick edit or we can take a look at.
It's going to show me just some of the basic things that I can edit.
And at the title, when it gets posted, I can give it a password, I can give it a category.
So different things like that, they can do everything basically, except for editing the article itself.
So that's the quick edit.
Now here in a minute I will trash this and delete it.
I'm going to put that in there.
I'm going to click on the trash in a bit or just want to go view the post itself, like where the world
would see it as opposed to me in the back and would see it and click on View and actually go see the
post live.
Right now it's going to edit so we can just see kind of what's going on before we get rid of this one.
And you can see it gave it a title by default.
So this is what the world is going to see as the title of the article.
So we're going to tighten it up there.
And here is our editor window.
This is what you're going to use to edit your article.
This is very similar to like Microsoft Word where you can go in and maybe select a little bit of text
here and you can make a bold or italicize, maybe you want to have some of this text here, be a bulleted
list or a numbered list, something like that.
Again, very similar to words.
You're very familiar with something like this.
I can also align all my copy left, right centered.
I can select a word and I can add a link to it.
I can go ahead and link that off to somewhere else and wanted to type in the URL and apply this if you're
not seeing all this information by default.
All this information here, by default, you get one row, usually kind of by default by WordPress,
if you click on this little icon right here, gives you a second row, gives you some extra information
here.
So maybe I can highlight that tag so I can change the color of it to be a weird green.
Maybe I want to add a weird symbol like maybe was one of the letters in the Spanish alphabet or the
copyright symbol.
I can click on this guy right here and I can choose any of these characters.
There's a copyright I could do that.
I can indent it.
I can undo some of the work that I've done so far.
So it really gives you all the basic information to be able to edit your copyright in here.
But this is the body of the article.
This is where everything is going to go.
You can also add images.
You could click on this and you could start to drop in photos or video or audio or PDF or any kind of
thing that you can use for people to be able to download or see is going to go right in there.
Now, some other information that you're going to see right up here under the publish area.
This is how the article gets published.
We can either say update can go live with it or you can say maybe I want to say this is already published.
I can click on edit against this back to draft mode so only I can see it in the back end.
People in the front end of the website aren't going to see this for right now and that published.
I can also change the visibility of it to be public, which is everybody, or I can say it's password
protected.
So if I click on then I can actually just add in the password.
One, two, three, four.
And now people have to enter that before they can read the article.
So it's kind of cool.
Maybe it would give maybe your member, your dedicated members or your website or, you know, value
to readers.
You can give them a password protected area to get some extra information or a download or something
like that.
That can be kind of nice for that.
But for this case, I'm was going to set that to public.
I can also set this to publish in the future or in the past.
I can say that I want this.
This is today's date.
I can say that, you know, this article should actually have been live two days ago.
Or I can say, you know what, just wait for two days and publish it then so I can schedule it.
But right now I'm good with keeping this as today's date and OK.
And actually the date is in the future because I had my time zone incorrect in the beginning when I
first did this.
So say, OK, now that changes it.
Now it's update so I can go live with it right now.
I can also go in and change the categories.
So if I've got several different categories of this blog is going to go under, this post would then
be just fall into one or multiple categories by default.
WordPress creates this uncategorized category, which I hate, so I always get rid of that.
And then I choose whichever category fits this article best.
I can add some tags to it.
Now, these are kind of like hash tags.
It's a way for people to be able to find information on your website quickly.
So if you had a bunch of posts on marketing or sales or whatever the case was that was applied to certain
articles separate from the category, maybe this was very specifically about Google marketing or whatever.
So you wouldn't have a category for that, but you may have a tag for that.
So that could be a place on your website where people could see all those different tags and click on
those to see all the articles that have that same tag in it.
And the last thing is a featured image.
This is the large image that usually appears at the top of a blog post.
So I can click on that just like I could the media area.
And I'm going to go ahead just kind of study default image that I grabbed here real quick.
And I can see that just by dragging and dropping that that uploaded right there, you know it prior
to big.
I got to save that one down.
All rights and guns and a featured image here, I got one on my desktop on a click and drag over to
WordPress and it's going to go ahead and upload that for me.
All right, so I'm going to go ahead and upload an image, click on the featured image and drag it from
my desktop to the image area house, a featured image, and you should see a peer right down there.
Of the update.
Now, it's cool as we can just click on hit command or control, click on the link right up here and
go visit that article when I click on that.
And you can see it got my featured image up here.
I've got my blog article down here.
I've got the default comment that WordPress put into there and I've got some widgets over here.
And this is all stuff that were going to go in and customize and kind of edit here and a little bit
kind of ugly right now.
But at the same time, we just installed WordPress and we've got a completely functioning website,
Stiles images.
Everything is super easy to do, not a lick of code reviews so far.
So a lot of potential here, a lot of cool stuff going on here and get ready to go in into pages next
and some other cool stuff.
So stick with me.