You have a WordPress site and received a briefing on how to add content, but forgot where everything was located.   This tutorial will provide you with some easy instructions on where to go within your WordPress admin panel.

So let’s get started:

Go to your domain name and locate your blog to login. If your complete site is a blog then you would type for instance:    www.domain-name.com/wp-login.php,  however, some people have their blog set up as just a sub-section of their site.  For example,  our blog is located under “news” so you would go to the domain name as follows:   http://glendaledesigns.com/news/wp-login.php  – go ahead and place your username and password in and select login.
You hare now in your WordPress admin which may look similar to this:

On your site, you probably have “Pages” and “Posts” – so what is the differece?  What you are reading right now is a Post.  Commonly at the end of a Post you will see there might be:  Posted in Site xyz category and possibly an author /contributor and date.   A Page on the other hand is a static page and commonly isn’t dated and visitors probably will not be able to comment on those pages.

WordPress Post

On the left navigation, under Posts, select “Add New”.  Your admin should look similar to the above image.  Go ahead and in section “A” insert your Article’s Heading.  In section “B” you can start writing the article you would like to post.  On the right you will notice Visual | HTML.  If you like to utilize WordPress’ WYSIWYG feature,  you should remain in the Visual tab.  The HTML tab allows you to insert HTML code.

If you start to write and think “oh you know if I place an image here it would enhance this, not a problem.  I would suggest that you go to the top right hand side and locate “Save Draft”, once you have selected this, you saved your work but you have not published it.

To the right of Upload/Insert you will see four icons.  Mouse over then and you will notice the media upload type.

Press “Select Files” and locate the image that you would like to insert.

Select the file from your local hard drive and it will upload to the server.  Once the image is uploaded, return back to your post that you were creating. If you mouse over the heading a sub menu will appear, select “edit”.

Now locate the position where you would like the image to appear.  Press Upload/Insert and then the image icon. This time select “Media Library” Select the new image and place a Title and Alt Text in along with selecting the Alignment and Size.  Once you select “Insert into Post” you image is placed into your post.

Don’t forget to select the Categories you would like this post to appear in, once satisfied with the presentation go ahead and publish it.

WP - Add New Post

If you know beforehand that you plan on using quite a few images, go ahead and select “Add New” from the main dashboard navigation under ‘Media’ and upload all of them at once.

Contributor: James Sharp, Glendale Designs