Wordpress Training - Screencast Tutorials - How To Create Posts Articles in Wordpress 2.6

Aug 17

Writing Posts and Pages in Wordpress 2.6 - Screencast Tutorial

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This 27 minute Screencast Training goes into depth, and will show you how to post articles and pages in Wordpress 2.6.

This tutorial is broken down into convenient chapters within the Quicktime movie. Click in the drop-down to the right of the timeline in the movie player. The chapters are:

Intro and Log-in
Title, Categories and Pasting from Word docs
HTML Editor Buttons and Formatting
Uploading and Adding Images
Adding an MP3 Download
Uploading a PDF for download
Tags and Previewing a Post
Publishing & Status Sidebar
SEO Considerations - (Search Engine Optimization)
Advanced Options

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Getting Started

writing-article-image 1. Get clear on what your page or article is about and jot down some keywords and/or body text that gives you an outline. One of the strengths of the article based format is that it encourages small bits of focused information.

2. Prepare any resources you want in your article, such as images and videos. This includes uploading movies to YouTube and optimizing your photos so that the files are small enough to load quickly on your web pages.

3. Log on to your site with your username and password. You should arrive at the Wordpress dashboard.

4. If you are editing a page or post, click on MANAGE, then POSTS or PAGES. This page will display a list of the current pages or posts. Click on the title of the article you want to edit.

5. If you want to write a new post or page then go to WRITE, then POST or PAGE.

The Basics

1. The Title - If possible your title should:

Describe what the article is about,
contain some of your strong keywords,
evoke some curiosity in the reader,
and/or describe a benefit that makes it clear why they should invest their time reading your article..

2. The Body Copy - This is the main story or copy for the article. You can write this in an external editor and then copy and paste it in or you can write it within this very window. If you write your copy in a Word doc you might like to use the Word import button. Click the Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button then the Paste from Word button.

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3. Choose a Category - If you’re editing a page this step does not apply, but every article must be assigned a Category. Categories give you and your visitors way to group your articles in terms of their interests. Make them succinct and descriptive.

Categories are the new Pages on the web.

You can break information down into digestible articles by assigning a category and then you can provide ongoing value AND people are more likely to keep coming back, and/or buy your product.

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