How To Create Your First Blog Post On WordPress
In this article, you will learn how to create your very first blog post on WordPress. Have you purchased your web-hosting and domain name for your blog?
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Creating your first blog post on WordPress is quite easy, but some of the newbies still don’t know the basics, you can share your knowledge and ideas online by pressing the publish button on WordPress.
Having a blog on self-hosted WordPress platform gives you unlimited access to everything, and you can manage your blog with freedom, mean there is no restrictions or limitation on self-hosted WordPress blog. Other free blogging platforms like Blogger and Tumblr are owned by someone else, having a blog on these free blogging platform not mean that you are the owner, but in case if you have a WordPress self-hosted blog, you are the one and only owner of your WordPress blog. For more information, you can read this brief introduction to Blogger & WordPress.
Deference Between Blogger and WordPress.
I have made this step by step guide especially for newbies and for those who don’t know how to write your first blog post on WordPress.
Why I choose WordPress?
- WordPress is free and comfortable it’s an open-source blogging platform
- You can create any website with WordPress
- The most exciting part, it’s SEO friendly
- Easy to use and easy to customize
- Large worldwide community help you in troubleshooting
- More security
Below you can read how to publish your first blog post on WordPress.
Okay!! Lets Start…
- To write your first blog post on WordPress, you have to log in to your WordPress account and go to WP Admin/Dashboard and right-click on Posts.
(You can see screenshot below) - After that right-click on Add New.
(You can see screenshot below) - You will see an editor area with a title and an empty content box. First, you need to write your article title and then write your first blog post in the content box.
(You can see screenshot below) - Okay, You write the title and post both and now want to share it with the world. You can preview your post by right click on Preview, or you can save your post in Draft. Don’t forget to give a category to your article before publishing it. Also, you can add a new category after right click on + Add New Category.
(You can see screenshot below) - If you want to add a screenshot simply right click on Add Media > Upload Files > Select Files From Your Computer and right-click on Insert into post.
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- The next part is adding Tags to your post and Set featured images.
(You can see screenshot below) - Now time to publish your article, you can see the publish button on the top right side of your screen, right-click on Publish.
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Okay, You have done it.
Your post is published now and live for everyone. I hope this step by step guide helps you to edit and publish your first blog post.
I highly recommend that read your post carefully before publishing it.
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