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Review & Add New Categories
(S) In the left-hand menu, click on Posts > Categories to view the contents in the screen on the right
(T) Add New Category. Enter Name of Category, select if it belongs to a parent category, enter description
(U) Click Add New Category to add new category to list
(V) Review list of Categories; sort by Bulk Actions, click Apply
(W) Identifies name of category, for this particular example, it is the 5th category called Menu Description
Identify & Add New Users
(P) In the left-hand menu, click on Users (P) to view the contents in the screen on the right
(Q) Users identified: Camandche image uploaded & attached to user named camandche. Role of user confirmed & the number of posts that user has submitted is also identified
(R) Add User From Community. Enter new users email address, identify the role the user will require & click on Add User. An email will be sent to that user to invite them to your blog
Once the basic blog is up & running, the user can tackle more advanced features. These can range from:
- Changing the theme of your blog
- Inviting a User to the blog
- Identifying categories
(N) In the left-hand menu, click on Apperance (N) to view the contents in the screen on the right
(O) Manage Themes menu
There are a few ways to add a new post to your blog. The quick way to get to a new post after login, is to access the Dashboard, use the top-menu bar. Go to My Blogs > Installing WordPress on IIS > New Post
NOTE: Once in the Dashboard mode, use the QuickPress (E) to add new posts to your blog easily.
Some common tasks using WordPress will be to navigate between different windows layouts & to add a new post quickly.
Toggle between Dashboard & Blog GUI
Navigating between Dashboard & your blog is crucial as you need to see how others will view everything.
To access the Dashboard, use the top-menu bar. Go to My Blogs > Installing WordPress on IIS > Dashboard
To access the Blog from the Dashboard, click on link: Installing WordPress on IIS
It will take you to the blog below . . .
(I) In the left-hand menu, click on Media (I) to view the contents in the screen on the right
(J) Upload New Media menu
(K) Click Select Files
(L) In pop-up screen, choose items to upload, click on Open
MEDIA UPLOAD CONFIRMATION
(M) File has been uploaded to the Media Library. This file can be selected & easily added to a post
(F) In the left-hand menu, click on Posts (F) to view the contents in the screen on the right
(G) Posts menu – quickly identifies the description
(H) All posts can either be listed here on this page or only the published list of posts can be shown. It identifies:
- What the title of the post is?
- Who wrote it?
- What categories it belongs to?
- Number of tags applicable to it?
- Plus other special features
NOTE: A new post can also be added from the top-menu bar, click on Add New > Post
A new window will pop up allowing you to complete the above, but it also provides formatting features, for example, bold, italic, etc. Once finished, click on Publish to submit.
(A) In the left-hand menu, click on Dashboard (B) to view the contents in the screen on the right
(B) Dashboard menu
(C) Content Specifications: Quick referral to identify the number of:
- Posts
- Page
- Categories &
- Tags
contained within this Blog
Posts are the content you write about & the purpose of having a Blog. A page is a separate webpage which may contain About Us information, while categories are sections for grouping posts together. A tag is similar to bookmarking (metadata) which allows a post to be searchable on the Internet.
(D) Discussion Specifications: Quick referral to identify the number of:
- Comments
- Approved
- Pending
- Spam
contained within this Blog
The discussion section deals with factors that have occurred within your Blog. This could include the four areas above. The comments section identifies how many replies have occurred, while the approved section identifies the number of comments confirmed by an authorised user. Pending identifies how many comments are waiting for approval & finally any Blogs looking suspiciously as spam will be noted in this section.
(E) QuickPress
This area could be used to quickly write up & publish a post. Fill in the Title, Content & Tags section. You can either save as a draft or click: Publish to submit it to your Blog.
The screenshot below is the dashboard; at a glance it quickly identifies content & discussion applicable to your blog.
There are also two menu bars used in WordPress.
- (A) Top menu bar
- Deals with top-level processes, giving access to all blogs linked up to this particular account &
- (B) Left-hand side menu bar
- Deals with second-level process, giving access to all information linked to its respective blog
- We will take a look around some of the features in this menu bar.
