1) Log in to your Word Press account. You should see something like the image below. (If you have more than one WordPress account, you should see all your WP accounts listed here.)
2) Click on “New Post”
Which will take you directly to this screen:
3) Begin writing your post. The “New Post” screen has a range of basic word processing features. Play around with these as you work on your first post. Don’t forget to add a title!
4) If you want to insert a picture, click on the image of the camera/musical notes:
You’ll get a pop-up screen that looks like this:
Choose “select files” to upload an image (I believe you can also drag-and-drop, but I confess I haven’t tried that yet). Once the image has uploaded (this may take a short while, depending on the speed of your connection) scroll down. You’ll see some basic options for editing for size and positioning this image in the post. You can fiddle with those if you like, or just click on “Insert into Post”:
5) When you are satisfied with your post, you can choose from several options:
- preview: see how your post will look (it will not be visible to the public yet)
- save as a draft (post will not publish
- publish immediately — and your post will post to the blog and be visible. You can also choose “edit” next to “publish immediately” and choose the date and time you want the post to be published.
6) The other screen you should familiarize yourself with is the Dashboard. You can access this immediately at login by clicking on the “dashboard” link:
(Note from this screen you can also re-access any posts saves as drafts–just click on “Drafts.”)
You can also access your Dashboard from your New Post screen:
Your dashboard lets you view comments and your posts, and lets you access your posts to edit or update them.
OK, give it a whirl! For help, you can click on the “Help” dropdown menu in the upper right-hand corner of your New Post or Dashboard screens.
Write when you get there 