Writing your first blog.

Now that you have your blog set up, you are eager to get started! Rock on!

• First we have to get rid of the demo post “Hello World” So we are actually going to edit it, meaning, remove all the demo text and add your own. So it’s not really writing a “fresh” post but editing a post.
• In your administration panel, click on the “Manage” menu.
• In the sub menu you will see “Post” click on that, because you want to “Manage your Posts” right? Generally it should be selected by default and you won’t have to click on it.
• You will see the “Hello-World” post. Click on “Edit” to the right
• You can now change the title, delete all the text and then write your own.
• When you are done writing, look at the column on the right where it says “Categories”
• You can add as many categories as you’d like then click “Add” you will see them appear below.
• Now uncheck all of the categories and leave only one checked, the one that your post should belong to. For example if you wrote something generic, then create a category called “News” or “Genera” or “Random” and save all your random posts in there.
• Below the category panel you should see the “Discussion” tab. In there you can allow or disallow comments.
• Allow pings can be left checked (i’ll explain more on that later)
• “Post Password” - This means that you can write anything and if you enter a password, it means that only those who know the password will be able to see the post. So you can write a secret post and if you enter a password, send it to that secret person so that when they try to read it, they will be asked for a password which they can enter and then read.
• Post slug - Change this to anything short, probably the same as the title of your blog.
• Post status - If you are yet working on it, select draft, if it is good to go, select Published, if you want to keep it private which only you can read, select private!
• Post timestamp - Select the date that it should be published.
• Click on “Save” or “Publish” to publish it instantly! and you are done! Visit your blog by clicking the “View Site” at the top left.

This explained how to “Edit” the Hello World post, read on to see how to actually write a fresh new post!

• Click on the “Write” menu at the top.
• You will see a sub-menu for “Write Post” and “Write Page” - This deals with writing a new “Post” or “Blog”. “Write Post” should be selected by default.
• Enter your blog title and then in the box below, type up your blog! It has a few buttons that you can use to format your blog, add links etc..
• A good practice is to break up your post into two, with an intro paragraph and a “Read more” link to read the rest.
• To do this, find the place where you want to insert the “Read more” link, click there and then press “enter” on your keyboard to give it some space.
• In the tool bar at the top of the box where you are typing your post you should see a button to the left of the check mark and abc.. it looks like two halves of a page, click on that. That will automatically insert a “Read more” link.
• For details on how to use the tabs on the right, read the above section, it has detailed explanations.
• Click publish and you are moving! Good job!

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