All right, so as we saw in the last video there, we created the home page and we made that static
page.
But because this is a blog, let's go ahead and switch that back to our homepage being the latest post.
You can do whatever you want with your blog, whatever makes the most sense for you, just for the demonstration
purposes here.
We're going to say that this is the latest post and what I want to do so I can actually see some things
happening here.
When I go over to my post, I'm going to create a couple of posts and I'm going to just see what I've
got created so far.
All right.
So I deleted the one.
So there's nothing here right now.
So it's quite just create three post McCully's one post one doesn't really matter in a new tab.
I'm a go to a website just saying grab some dummy copy.
I'd like to go to Ipsum so I lorem have some and we'll just copy a paragraph out of here again.
Just kind of so we can see what it's going to look like and paste that into the body here.
We can set a feature image if we want to go ahead and grab this current one right here and we can choose
a category.
Let's say this one falls into the business category and I'll hit publish.
Now let's create a new one.
Call us one post to how you want to give us an actual good blog name.
This is just for demonstration purposes right now.
Let's say this one goes on our sports.
And let's go ahead.
Just use that same image that we have right now and publish.
And if I go back to the homepage of the website refresh, we can see that this is just our latest blog
post.
So I posted them in the most recent blog post first, which was to which I just got done publishing.
A couple seconds before that, I had post one.
You can see our featured image and we can see some of our copy.
Each theme is going to lay this out a little bit differently, but you can see where this is starting
to go.
All right.
Now that we've got a couple of posts in there.
Let's go ahead and switch out a theme.
And we can, because I've got those two posts in there and a couple of pages.
We can start to see what the theme is going to look like.
Now, if I go to a parents and other themes here, there are three by default, at least with this version
of WordPress.
Every year, WordPress seems to come up with a new theme that they build into their WordPress versions.
You can see twenty, fifteen, twenty, sixteen, twenty, seventeen.
Even though it's the end of twenty eighteen, there still isn't a twenty eighteen version yet.
I think they're waiting until they come out with a new version of WordPress.
But regardless, you've got three that you can start from that are very basic but very good.
As far as starting points, if you're a developer and you want to kind of just kind of emulate their
theme and build off of it, they're great for that.
But there's a ton of free ones that are already, you know, well designed within the WordPress database
here.
So so we're an appearance.
We're in themes.
We can say add new.
Now you can purchase your own thing.
There's places that you can go to get them like Elegante themes and theme fours and different places
like that, you could then purchase it, download it and then upload that theme.
Or you can just pick one of these.
Now, these are free and there's usually like a little link back to the original developer in here or
something like that.
A lot of them give you the option to then upgrade to a paid version if you want wanted to, other good
options.
But these are the free ones that are in the database.
And you can see there's just a ton of cool stuff in here is just the first couple.
These are the most featured ones.
Here are the most popular ones.
So we can start to sort by different things since people seem to like some of these.
These look like more sales, online shopping type of blogs.
Some of these are actual blogs.
Some are just different websites.
Here's a news blog right here.
Another news blog I want to keep in mind, kind of simple.
Here's actually an old WordPress one, 2011.
Wow.
So I don't know.
Let's see.
I saw one over here that I kind of liked a second ago.
I mean, what is in the past one?
Let's look at of these other options up here, too.
There's also favorites.
Well, I haven't seen any favorites yet.
There are no there are ladies.
That's kind of cool.
The thread in the green.
That's fun.
This one looks like kind of a Pinterest style.
That's kind of cool.
But let's say I had a very something very specific in mind that I was looking for here.
So I can click on Feature Filter and I can say I want the blog to be an actual blog or maybe an entertainment
blog.
I can choose a couple of options here.
I want to be able to have sticky posts and background color or excuse me, a custom background.
And I want to have the layout being a two or three column format.
So this is going to find all the blogs that have those criteria built into them.
And I can apply that filter and looks like there's six options.
No, actually, I had six features, so here's all the ones that will meet that criteria.
So to do this one is kind of cool.
All right.
So I'm going to say install or I can just preview it and preview it.
It's going to show you kind of an option of what it could look like.
Sometimes these are a little bit distorted.
So it's not always the best option, but it gives you kind of a basic overview of what the block could
look like.
Sometimes I do like that.
I install it.
And I'm going to activate it so instant, it just brings it into your WordPress website, into this
area right here activate and it makes it that featured blog that you're using.
So now if I come back to the homepage of my web, here is the original app.
I just hit refresh.
Got a whole new website going on here and this is very cool.
Is actually very good looking blog.
I really like the way this plays out within each of these themes.
There are so many differences that I can't cover everything.
But we're going to take a look at what this blog offers and talk about some of the other things that
other blogs offer here in the next video.