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Posting an article in your blog

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Riley Ayes

In the previous post, we learned how to register a WordPress blog. (Here’s why WordPress is the preferred platform for your blog.) In this post, we are going to familiarize ourselves with the WordPress Dashboard. Although, the images used in this post were taken for a hosted WordPress blog (not a WordPress.com blog),  the Dashboard of both platforms are very similar. You can follow the tutorial below using either platform.

Moving on, it is important to be familiar with WordPress environment – the Dashboard (Figure 1) – something like the “command and control center” of your blog or website. The Right Now panel contains the number of Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, and Discussion (a snapshot of your blog’s Comments section). The QuickPress panel will enable us to publish short posts quickly. In the left-hand side of your Dashboard are the sections and their subsections.

You could also see other “panels” in your Dashboard. They include Recent Comments, Recent Drafts, Site Stats, etc. Do not be overwhelmed by these panels; we will use each of them as we go on. For now, we will concentrate on the basics. At this point, it’s important to be familiarized with the environment.

As a sample post, we will show the step-by-step posting of one of our partner blog’s articles (written by yours truly), which is about the recent doodle of Google (Figure 2). This article has an image and some hyperlinks to other articles in the web, so it’s a nice example because we can also show you here how to include an image in your post as well as add hyperlinks in your article.

So in this tutorial, you will learn how to:

  • Add an article
  • Add an image.
  • Add hyperlinks.
  • Publish your article or save as draft

Step-by-step Instructions 

1. To post a new blog, click the Add New link located at the left-hand panel of the Dashboard, under the section Posts. This will display the Add New Post text box shown in Figure 3. Type the title of your blog, and type the text in the appropriate boxes.

2. To insert the image, go to the line or paragraph where you want your image to be located, and then click the Add Image button (Figure 4).
3. This will display the Add an Image window shown in Figure 5. Click the Browse button and select the image file from your computer. Note that there are two ways to upload your file, the Flash uploader and the Browser uploader. We are using the Browser uploader for this post.
4. After adding the image (we are still in the Add Image window), you could add a caption, set the alignment, and the size of the image to be displayed in the article.
5. After adding your caption, setting the image alignment, and selecting the image size, the final step is to click Insert into Post (Figure 6).
6. You will be back to your draft, and you will see there the image you added (Figure 7).
7. A hyperlink is a link in your article that will open to other websites’ contents, or even your own content. Of course, these hyperlinks should be related to your article, otherwise there’s no point in including them in your article. To add a link, highlight the text you want to link into that content, and then click on the “chain” button (Figure 8).
8. The Insert/Edit Link window will open. This is where you will put the web address for the hyperlinks you want to create in your article (Figure 9).
9. After finalizing your article, adding the tags, the links (if any), and selecting the categories of where you want the article to be posted, click Save Draft, so that you could review the article first before publishing to live.
10. After reviewing your article, press Publish to display the article your blog.



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