How to Create Your First Post on WordPress?

Опубликовано: 03 Ноябрь 2024
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WordPress is the website that allows people to create their own sites with giving them different customization options and tools to do whatever they want on the site and this even happens with helping them with the themes, the plugins, etc.

For the beginners of WordPress, it is first important that they know the difference between a post and a page. Posts are one of the main researches used within a WordPress website, it is used to advertise some particular blog content, some info about the website, or even some daily or weekly and sometimes even monthly updates to give your viewers and visitors some kind of hint about what is going on in your site. We could say that a post on WordPress is more of a dynamic entity that needs updates every so often, while the page is a static entity that does not need changes regularly or even at all; the posts of the website are posted on the website's page.

The first thing to do in order to create your post is to login into the WordPress dashboard, and in order to know how to monitor the dashboard, you could check this video tutorial about dealing with WordPress dashboard (   • WordPress Dashboard Tutorial - Dashbo...  .

To create a new post on your WordPress site, you will need to go to the posts button that is found in the toolbar on the left side of the page. Once you open your posts page, you will find all the old posts which you already have on your site and on the top just beside the "posts" title, you will find the "add a new post" button which you will click on in order to create your first post.

In the page that will open to create the new post, there are three different things which you will need to go through: first is writing the title of the post then writing down the content of the post, and the third part is about choosing the format that you want, which you will find on the right corner of the page. When you are creating the content of the post, you will find one the side part two different options, the visual and the text, the visual is for beginners and those who are not experienced in texts and codes, while the text option is for those more experienced in the HTML codes.

According to the theme you are using for your website, you are going to find the format given to you for the text you are writing down and creating as part of the content; you could know more about WordPress themes through this tutorial which we have provided on our channel as well (   • WordPress Tutorial - How to Install a...  .

One of the other things which you will also find in the page of creating a post is the permalink which is automatically created by WordPress but which you could edit in order to choose the name that you want if you believe that it is going to be easier for the viewers and visitors to find it. This Permalink is showing you how this is going to be presented and that's why it is important to pay attention to it since it also helps when it comes to the SEO.

Going to the other options found on the right side of the page, you will first get to the publishing options. The publishing options include the status of the post, the visibility and who will see it, when you want it to be published, and you will also find some help with the readability and the SEO (they will in general tell you how good you are doing with the post). When you finish creating your post, you could either choose to preview it first in order to know how it will look like for the visitors and you could else choose to publish it directly.

The other options related to editing and creating a post on your WordPress site is the format window which in addition to the standard, it gives you other options to choose from, such as the image, the video, the quote, the link, etc. and there is also the option of choosing the category in which you want your post to go to (this is usually according to the categories that you already have on your site, but you could also create a new category directly from there), there is also the tags option which you could use to place your tags in order to appear easier in the search engine, and finally there is the featured image that you could choose for the post.

To get to know more about WordPress and creating a website through it, we could help you with the initial steps, such as learning to create a page (   • How to Create a Page in WordPress - W...  ), how to install a new plugin to your site (   • WordPress Plugins Tutorial; How to In...  , know how to customize the theme that you have installed (   • WordPress Tutorial; How to Customize ...  ) and generally know more about users and media library (   • WordPress User Registration, Permissi...  ).

That's the basic way of creating a new post on WordPress website, did you find this helpful and informative? If yes then share it around.

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