Make Money Blogging For Beginners – Getting Started With WordPress
In this article we will give you a short guide to getting started with WordPress. We will also introduce WordPress Foundations, which is a huge resource to becoming a “WordPress Master”.
1. Making a Post
The fundamentals of your blog as all articles are written in the form of a blog post.
On your WordPress dashboard, click Posts on the left hand side and then Add New from the dropdown list.
You will be see a user friendly screen which doesn’t look too different from your
favourite word processing package. Type in your post title and then your article in the larger content area.
you can add bold or italics to certain text, add hyperlinks to other websites and create bulleted lists etc. all very easily. Adding images and video as well to give your posts more life.
If you do not have time to finish your post in one sitting, click Save Draft to return to it at a later time and you can see how your post will look at any stage as if it was live on your blog by clicking the Preview button.
When you are happy your blog post is finished, click the blue Publish button.
You are of course able to edit your post at a later time after publication if you want to correct any mistakes, add further content etc.
2. Creating a Page
There may be times when you want to create a static page to contain non blog post type information, such as an About Me or Contact page.
On your WordPress dashboard, click Pages on the left hand side and then Add New from the dropdown list.
The screen is almost identical to that for writing posts and again you can write a title and then add whatever content you want, such as pictures, videos, different text etc.
You can also save the page as a draft if you do not finish it one go and can also preview it
at any time. When you are ready for the page to go live on your blog, click the blue Publish button.
Just as you can with any blog post, you can edit your page at a later time after publication
if you want to correct any mistakes, add further content etc.
3. Categories
In WordPress you can categorize all of your posts which is useful if you blog about a lot of different subjects or sub-niches.
While you do not need to set all of your categories immediately, you may want to add them
as time goes by and your blog post count increases.
On your WordPress dashboard, click Posts on the left hand side and then Categories
from the dropdown list.
Here you can add new categories to your heart’s content. Just type in a category name,
slug and if you want, description. Then click Add Category.
4. Blog Roll
Adding links to other sites is easy if you use the built in blog roll feature.
Somewhere on your homepage you will see a blog roll section and this is where links to
other blogs or websites will appear.
On your WordPress dashboard, click Links on the left hand side and then Add New from
the dropdown list.
Here you can enter the name of the website you want to link to, their website address and
also a description. You can choose whether or not the link opens in a new window when someone clicks it and a wide range of other options.
When you are happy with the information you have entered, click Add Link on the right
hand side to make your link go live on your blog roll list.
5. Further Reading
I will not write more about WordPress at this moment. If you really want to get into the nitty gritty of WordPress I warmly recommend WordPress Foundations.
This course includes a detailed, 200+ page step-by-step WordPress ebook and nine
hours of video tutorials which lead you by the hand and show you how to do everything you could possibly dream of doing in WordPress.
This is a great product to becoming a WordPress expert because you can go back and
rewind the videos and reference pages in the eBook as needed. And since WordPress already is an SEO machine, why not fine tune your WordPress so it will be humming like a new BMW?
Moreover, you will also get ongoing videos. This means, if WordPress makes any changes, you will get a new tutorial video so you do not become lost among the updates!
