Create the first post Basic commands

July 17, 2012

Web training for Ph.D. Students

@Unicam

Summing up…

• We had an overview of the most imporant features of wordpress

• We are now ready to

6. Start your first post

Start your first post

• The title: this is your post title. Choose a catchy and clear title.

Start your first post

• The frame where you can write your post text (resembles the Microsoft Word interface)

Start your first post

• Checkboxes where you can indicate your posts category

• Choose one or more appropriate categories

• If none available, create a new one

Add a picture to your post

• Upload a picture from your system

• Add a good title (will be used as alt)

Add a picture to your post

• Set pointer in text editor where you want picture

• Link to: choose the way you want your picture to behave (as a link to the file, as a link to a page with only the picture or no link at all)

• Click “Send to editor”

Add a picture to your post

Add a picture to your post

• Postion the picture

• Alignment Left or Right

Add a picture to your post: result

Saving and publishing your post

• Click “Save and continue editing” to stay on post page

• Click “Save” to save and exit post page

• Click “Publish” to publish post on website

Your first post!!

Adding links to your post

• Select the words / picture you want to link

• Click link button

• Add link URL

• Click insert

• To remove link click remove link button

Adding links to your post

Adding a video to your posts

• You can add a YouTube video to your post

• Find video on YouTube and copy URL

Adding a video to your posts

• Find the YouTube button(*) in the Wordpress editor and click it

• Paste YouTube URL in box

(*) Viper’s video quicktags plugin

Using the “more” option

• Possibility to only show introduction on home page followed by “read the rest of this entry” or “read more”

• Click “more” button while pointer at desired position in editor