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Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

Anonymous User6826 12-Nov-2011

Posts are the entries that display in reverse chronological order on your home page. In contrast to pages, posts usually have comments fields beneath them and are included in your site's RSS feed.

To write a post successfully in your website using WordPress follows the following steps.

Step 1: Login in to WordPress Admin Panel or Dashboard

Step 2: Click on the ‘Posts’ menu option and select ‘Add New’

Step 3: Fill all the entries

Step 4: As needed Category, Post Tag, Format and many more, you can attach with posts.

Step 5: If you are ready to publish the post then click on ‘Publish’ button.

Let's see a brief demonstration on it.

Open the login page and login in to WordPress Admin Panel (Dashboard)

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

Now click on the ‘Log In’ button. Following window will be visible after the successful login.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

Now click on the ‘Posts’ menu and select ‘Add New’ option.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

In the above image there are some area is highlighted such as Save Draft button, Preview button, Format, Page Header, Text Area, All Post, Categories and Post Tags etc. Let’s see a brief description about these.

All Post:  All post screen displays the all posts in website.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

The highlighted are displays the all the posts in your site here you can edit, delete or modify the post.

Category:  You can use categories to define sections of your site and group related posts. The default category is “Uncategorized” until you change it in your writing settings.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

From the above snapshot it is clear that if you want to add new category then just fill all the information related to category into left pane such as Category Name, Slug, Parent and description and then click on ‘Add New Category’ button, once category added successfully it will be visible at right pane.   Here I have taking an example of adding C# as a category.

Post Tags:  You can assign keywords to your posts using Post Tags. Unlike categories, tags have no hierarchy, meaning there’s no relationship from one tag to another. Let’s see an example on how to add post tags?

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

To create tags just fill the all information and then click on ‘Add New Tag’ button, created tag will be visible at right section of page.

Now fill all the information of post, let’s see the demonstration.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

Here ‘Save Draft’ button is used for save post as draft, ‘Preview’ button is used for to see preview of page in the website and publish button is used for publish the post. After selecting all appropriate options click on the ‘Publish’ button.

Output:

After successful publish the post, post will be visible as follows.

Creating and Using Posts in WordPress

 


Updated 07-Sep-2019
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