Hello and welcome.
Now this video we are going to begin creating content with our WordPress site.
Now in order to do that one of the first things you're going to do is you're going to go to the posting
area once you're in the posting area.
You are then going to click the Add new button
and there are a couple of things that you want to know about creating posts.
Posts are the most common way of creating content in a wordpress site and you are going to want to have
your post organized by some kind of category.
Now whenever you're in the posting area WordPress will start out with an um categorized area.
But you can actually add a specific category to the posts that you are writing and all posts are going
to be organized by category unless you decide to leave it on categorized and to a general area.
The other thing that you're going to be able to do with your post is you're going to be able to create
tags now tags are ways that search engines and other people can go to your site and find information
that your post is going to be about.
For example you might have hundreds of posts on your site.
But if you have tags on that post then people will be able to go to your site put the tag into the search
area and then find all of the posts that are going to be about that particular subject.
And so posting is a very good way of using your WordPress site in order to distribute content.
Now in order to create a post what you're going to do is you are going to use the whimsy wake editor
and you can actually write in your post just as if you were writing into a Google Doc or a Microsoft
Word document.
I'm actually going to stop the recording right now and I'm going to put some text in here and you're
going to notice that there's now text in the wheezy wake.
And so one of the things that we are going to want to do is we're going to want to edit it so that it
appears the way we wanted to appear.
This will be one of the things that you're going to be able to do to make your content appear the way
you want to.
Now the other thing that you're going to be able to do is you're going to be able to add images to your
post and the way that you do that is that you are going to put the cursor where you actually want the
image you're going to click the ad media button and then you're going to either go into your media library
or choose one from your hard drive.
And this particular case you can go to your media library because we already have some information there.
We're going to select in the image and then we're going to insert it into our post.
Now one of the things that you'll want to do when you insert into a post is you're going to want to
consider the size.
And you're always going to have a couple of different options when you want to post your image.
Now a thumbnail size image is going to be very small and medium size image is going to be take up about
half of your page a large image is going to take up about two thirds of your page and a full size will
take up the entire width of the page.
So since we're just putting in an image that we want to take up part of the part of the page we're going
to go ahead and just put a thumbnail image in and we're going to click insert into post.
Now with the wheezy wake editor what you're going to notice is that it's actually going to show the
way it's going to be when a visitor actually sees it.
Once we have texts like this we can actually go in and edit the image.
We can actually add it so that our image is going to be the way we want it.
And so we can click a line left in our text will come alongside of our image.
Now one of the other things that we can do inside of our post is that we can hyperlink to other places.
And of course it works in the very same way as it would in any word processing software or any Web site.
All we would do is copy the text or highlight the text and then we click insert link and the link that
we're going to insert will be hyperlink to this information.
So we would put our you our L in there
and then click apply and we would have our hyperlink.
As you can see of course one of the other things that we can do in our post as we would with any text
based information we can bold information we can on italicized.
We can strike through.
OK.
So once you actually have some of the information in there the way that you want what you do is as we
said we're going to pick a category
and we're going to add that new category and then we're to make this post about that category.
We're going to write in some tags
and once we've done that then we've only got one other thing that we want to do.
And now one of the other things that WordPress will allow you to do is to set a featured image and this
image is going to show when you share your post on social media sites like Facebook or Linked In or
Twitter.
And so you will just go and get a featured image you get the very same one that you had before going
to click send a featured image and then will your post shows up.
This image is going to show up representing that post.
Now once we actually have the information the way that we want we would then click the publish button.
And once we do that we'd go and visit our post
and we can see how the post is actually going to look
we can then write in here what we think the post is about
and then we're going to click Update
here and once again we have our updated information.
Now there are several items across the toolbar that you'll be able to use.
One of the things that you can actually do is you can actually toggle this toolbar down and you'll actually
be able to see more options that you have available.
For example if you wanted to underline text you could do it
if you wanted to change the color of the text you could do that if you want to change that text back.
You can do that or change so another color and so all these options are going to be available to you.
The other thing that you can actually do is to change the formatting of the text by using these options
you'll see them there some of the larger headings or you can just leave it as paragraph and this will
retain the formatting that came with your theme so once you've completed all the information you want
to update and you want to always look and view the posts so that you can see exactly what your post
is going to look like when you are actually visiting from a Web site.
OK.
So what we're gonna do now is just write our title back in here
with a quick update and then we are ready to go with our post.
OK.
So with that thanks.
And I will see you in another video.