ITC298 > Creating Content with WordPress
Content is the key to any good website. It’s what your users are coming to see, right?
Without good and relevant content everything else is merely a placeholder.
— Web Redesign: Workflow that Works 2.0, by Kelly Gato & Emily Cotler
Therefore, let’s see how we can easily create, update and manage content using WordPress, shall we?
Blog Postings
Posts are the principal element (or content) of a blog. The Posts are the writings, compositions, discussions, discourses, musings, and, yes, the rantings, of a blog owner and contributors. Posts, in most cases, are the reason a blog exists; without Posts, there is no blog!
— http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Posts_-_Make_some_content
The first thing we need to do is “log in” to our administration panel so we can write a posting.
Remember that on your default theme, you should see a log in button near the bottom of your sidebar:
Once logged in to the administration panel, you will see a link for “Posts” in your main navigation:
Once you click the “Posts” link you will be taken to the Posts Edit SubPanel:
The Posts Edit SubPanel allows you to select the Post or Posts you wish to edit, delete, or view.
You may have noticed that there is already a “Hello World!” Post in your list:
The “Hello World!” posting is an example posting that WordPress gives you so you can see how a posting is written.
If you click the “Hello World!” post, you will be taken to the Write Post SubPanel:
The Write Post SubPanel is used to write new posts and edit existing ones.
Creating a New Post
To create a new post you will need to click the “Add New” link in your main menu:
Once you click the “Add New” link, you will be taken to a blank Write Post SubPanel where you can create your very first post:
We can now write a title for our posting and create the content that goes with it:
The content for our new posting will be written inside the Rich Text Editor that WordPress provides us.
You can see that the Rich Text Editor has quite a few buttons that look similar to the options you might find in various pieces of software. We will taking a look at these options and Formatting Your Text in WordPress in the next lecture. For now, let’s publish what we have so far.
To publish your post, go ahead and click on the big blue “Publish” button:
Once you click on the big blue “Publish” button, WordPress will notify you that your post has indeed been published and will ask you if you’d like to view your posting.
Click on the “View Post” link:
When you click on the “View Post” link you will be taken to the permalink for that posting:
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.
— http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
If we go back to the home page of our site, we will see the posting in our blog:
Since we wrote a posting without any text formatting, let’s edit our posting.
Click the “Edit” link underneath your posting:
Note: You will only see the “Edit” link if you are logged in to your site.
Editing & Formatting Your Text
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