WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:01.960 Now we have a live web site. 00:02.010 --> 00:06.640 And in this lesson I want to teach you how to create blog articles. 00:06.750 --> 00:12.540 So here I'm going to show you how to create your blog page so that it looks like this with the blog 00:12.550 --> 00:19.350 posts and then we're going to create a separate blog post to add to our website that looks something 00:19.350 --> 00:22.980 like this so you can see here we have this Hetter image. 00:22.980 --> 00:30.450 We have the title we have different types of text and we have images including a quote a blockquote 00:30.540 --> 00:32.840 which is what this looks like right here. 00:32.940 --> 00:35.910 And basically some text and some images. 00:35.910 --> 00:42.410 So let's go back to our dashboard and let's go to posts and let's view all posts. 00:42.420 --> 00:48.010 The first thing we're going to do is just add it or actually delete the Hello World blog post. 00:48.130 --> 00:55.620 So to edit or delete any individual or even do a book at it you can check the blog posts here than appear 00:55.950 --> 01:02.160 on our blog actions you can say move to trash or if it's just an individual one you can click this trash 01:02.160 --> 01:04.350 button right here so that deletes it. 01:04.350 --> 01:09.570 So now if we refreshed and go to our blog we won't see that sample posts. 01:09.600 --> 01:15.660 So to add a new blog post we can go to this add new button right here and her posts or just go to the 01:15.660 --> 01:18.090 New button up here and click Post. 01:18.090 --> 01:25.470 Now let's type in our blog title so what we'll do is a bathroom ladder. 01:25.650 --> 01:28.100 This is the new project that I'm working on. 01:28.410 --> 01:30.320 So you see this permalink right here. 01:30.360 --> 01:36.990 It's set up as Ebner designs dot com slash and then it takes the title that we input right here and 01:36.990 --> 01:43.890 it creates this your L for a lot of you depending on what WordPress site or theme you have installed. 01:43.890 --> 01:50.490 It's not going to be the title it's going to be either the date or the page number or the blog number 01:50.580 --> 01:54.400 and to change how this is set up we have to change our permalink settings. 01:54.480 --> 01:57.810 So go to settings and then Permalink. 01:58.060 --> 02:00.250 And that will take you to the permalink page. 02:00.270 --> 02:07.320 You have common settings that you can use such as plain which is just when you create a new page or 02:07.320 --> 02:08.420 a new blog article. 02:08.430 --> 02:15.360 It's going to be Ebeneezer designs dot com slash question Mark P and then each page has an actual ID 02:15.360 --> 02:15.850 number. 02:15.870 --> 02:18.860 Or you can do the day and the name. 02:18.870 --> 02:25.490 So if you want to include the day or even just the month you can do that or numeric. 02:25.560 --> 02:31.270 If you just want to have a numeric archive with each page or each blog post being a certain number. 02:31.290 --> 02:37.890 But I'd suggest using POST name because this is going to be keyword friendly for SEO purposes because 02:37.890 --> 02:41.350 your blog title will help get more search traffic. 02:41.370 --> 02:48.400 If it's in the year itself so switch it to post name right here so that's about Permalink. 02:48.630 --> 02:51.280 Now let's add some content to our blog article. 02:51.280 --> 02:54.500 First let's add some media outlets add a new image. 02:54.540 --> 03:01.230 So we already uploaded our bathroom ladder so you can either upload it if you haven't done so already. 03:01.230 --> 03:04.910 Or you can just select it and say insert into post. 03:04.950 --> 03:08.160 So let's just see what our other blog posts looks like. 03:08.280 --> 03:10.990 Because I like to have them look kind of similar. 03:11.310 --> 03:17.870 This information right here the title of the blog post the date the author the tags. 03:17.880 --> 03:22.390 This stuff is all set up automatically so that's not things we add. 03:22.440 --> 03:27.050 It's just based off of when we actually post and who the author is. 03:27.060 --> 03:34.200 The information below though is stuff that we actually type in so you can see if I just go here and 03:34.200 --> 03:35.820 type in some words. 03:35.820 --> 03:43.440 This is a bathroom ladder that's going to appear in our blog post just like how we created a page if 03:43.440 --> 03:47.020 we also want to add a header. 03:47.130 --> 03:53.450 We can do that by selecting our text and changing the paragraph style to heading. 03:53.460 --> 03:59.790 Now I'm going to be going over a few tips and advice for using the different headings in a follow up 03:59.790 --> 04:05.760 lesson so be sure to check that out because using your heading is great for both readability but also 04:05.980 --> 04:07.260 SEO purposes. 04:07.290 --> 04:13.980 So search engines actually see which words are in your headings and use it to make your posts appear 04:14.040 --> 04:14.930 in search. 04:14.940 --> 04:20.810 So if we want to add a list of supplies we can just click the bulleted list and add your supplies. 04:20.820 --> 04:27.870 Now I don't have that exact list of supplies right now but I can just make a short list and so if we 04:27.870 --> 04:33.810 preview this it's going to open up our blog post and a new tab and we can see what it looks like. 04:33.810 --> 04:34.290 Pretty cool. 04:34.290 --> 04:41.040 Pretty cool but say we want a big header image right here like this because now let's just go ahead 04:41.070 --> 04:47.320 and publish this post if we want we can set the publish date for a future time by clicking publish me 04:47.490 --> 04:52.440 Lee and then click the edit button and then setting the date and time that you want to publish it. 04:52.440 --> 04:58.350 This is great for pre writing a bunch of content that is scheduled out or you can publish it immediately 04:58.350 --> 05:04.230 by clicking publish now I wanted to do that just because I wanted to show you now when I click on the 05:04.230 --> 05:13.380 blog page what it looks like we have the blog title but there's no image that image comes from our featured 05:13.470 --> 05:17.150 image which right now is down here in the bottom right. 05:17.160 --> 05:22.860 So if we click featured image and now we would want to set an image as our featured image. 05:22.860 --> 05:26.310 You can click there and then say set as featured image. 05:26.460 --> 05:33.360 It's probably a good idea to have multiple images and not use the same exact image that's in your blog 05:33.360 --> 05:37.200 posts as your featured image because it gets a little repetitive. 05:37.200 --> 05:45.930 So now if I update that and then I refreshed the blog page that image becomes the featured image and 05:45.930 --> 05:49.480 you can see that it crops it to this aspect ratio. 05:49.500 --> 05:56.670 And now if I go to my blog page we have the featured image appear on top of the blog title. 05:56.670 --> 06:02.670 And if people want to click the bathroom ladder or the read more page it goes to this blog article. 06:02.670 --> 06:09.410 If we want our image to be on the right side like this we can just go back to our image select it and 06:09.410 --> 06:12.820 then say write a line make it a little bit smaller. 06:12.930 --> 06:15.540 Something like this and then let's click and drag. 06:15.570 --> 06:22.620 And as I click and drag I can see where the cursor appears on the left hand side and we'll just put 06:22.620 --> 06:24.810 it right next to the supplies list. 06:24.810 --> 06:30.050 So if we preview changes you can see now that it's on the right side of the supplies list. 06:30.060 --> 06:33.290 Now I would go through add more content add more images. 06:33.300 --> 06:37.530 But now you know how to write and create new posts. 06:37.530 --> 06:39.700 One good thing to know is the featured image. 06:39.700 --> 06:48.020 The other is with categories so categories are how you organize your different blog articles. 06:48.030 --> 06:56.590 So for this article I would categorize it as a DIY and then probably a new category for bathroom. 06:56.640 --> 06:59.840 It's ok to post your blogs in multiple categories. 06:59.970 --> 07:03.210 So to add that new category you just clicked add new category. 07:03.300 --> 07:06.060 Type it out and then click add new category. 07:06.060 --> 07:12.960 So now the reason why we do this is because in the future there is plug ins where you can actually create 07:12.990 --> 07:19.850 a blog list such as on this blog page or even right here on the right side of these categories that 07:19.860 --> 07:22.970 only show a certain blog articles for a tag. 07:22.980 --> 07:27.960 So let me show you how that works right now on my own site video school online.com. 07:27.960 --> 07:32.380 You can see here that I have recent articles and podcasts. 07:32.430 --> 07:37.060 These are all blog articles that are showing up and these are all chronological order. 07:37.080 --> 07:44.220 So the latest one whether it's a podcast or just a regular article no matter what category it's in appears 07:44.220 --> 07:44.670 here. 07:44.700 --> 07:52.830 But if I go to my podcast page only the podcast articles appear because I said on this page to only 07:52.830 --> 07:59.970 show articles that are in the podcast category in the blog page what I did was I actually excluded the 07:59.970 --> 08:01.680 podcast category. 08:01.710 --> 08:06.210 So that is how you can use different categories for your articles. 08:06.210 --> 08:11.950 Another thing is say I click on one of these articles and it depends on the theme that you're using. 08:11.970 --> 08:18.830 But you can show related posts down below and the related posts have to do with the categories. 08:19.080 --> 08:24.240 So it's not going to show podcasts in this related posts because this post is about video production 08:24.630 --> 08:29.160 but it will show the other pose related to video production down here. 08:29.160 --> 08:36.500 So it's really a good idea to organize your blog articles into different categories in terms of tags. 08:36.510 --> 08:43.520 These are tags that search engines will look for and will use to make sure that your articles show up 08:43.530 --> 08:45.820 in search for specific keywords. 08:45.840 --> 08:57.840 So for this article I would probably type in DIY woodworking project bath room ladder towel different 08:57.840 --> 09:00.080 words that have to do with his bathroom ladder. 09:00.160 --> 09:01.220 Then just click add. 09:01.380 --> 09:04.350 But that's basically how you edit your own blog post. 09:04.350 --> 09:07.400 Make sure that you update it when you are completely done. 09:07.410 --> 09:12.360 And like I said earlier in an upcoming lesson I'm going to explaining how to use headings in the proper 09:12.360 --> 09:12.630 way.