Now we have a live web site.
And in this lesson I want to teach you how to create blog articles.
So here I'm going to show you how to create your blog page so that it looks like this with the blog
posts and then we're going to create a separate blog post to add to our website that looks something
like this so you can see here we have this Hetter image.
We have the title we have different types of text and we have images including a quote a blockquote
which is what this looks like right here.
And basically some text and some images.
So let's go back to our dashboard and let's go to posts and let's view all posts.
The first thing we're going to do is just add it or actually delete the Hello World blog post.
So to edit or delete any individual or even do a book at it you can check the blog posts here than appear
on our blog actions you can say move to trash or if it's just an individual one you can click this trash
button right here so that deletes it.
So now if we refreshed and go to our blog we won't see that sample posts.
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
New button up here and click Post.
Now let's type in our blog title so what we'll do is a bathroom ladder.
This is the new project that I'm working on.
So you see this permalink right here.
It's set up as Ebner designs dot com slash and then it takes the title that we input right here and
it creates this your L for a lot of you depending on what WordPress site or theme you have installed.
It's not going to be the title it's going to be either the date or the page number or the blog number
and to change how this is set up we have to change our permalink settings.
So go to settings and then Permalink.
And that will take you to the permalink page.
You have common settings that you can use such as plain which is just when you create a new page or
a new blog article.
It's going to be Ebeneezer designs dot com slash question Mark P and then each page has an actual ID
number.
Or you can do the day and the name.
So if you want to include the day or even just the month you can do that or numeric.
If you just want to have a numeric archive with each page or each blog post being a certain number.
But I'd suggest using POST name because this is going to be keyword friendly for SEO purposes because
your blog title will help get more search traffic.
If it's in the year itself so switch it to post name right here so that's about Permalink.
Now let's add some content to our blog article.
First let's add some media outlets add a new image.
So we already uploaded our bathroom ladder so you can either upload it if you haven't done so already.
Or you can just select it and say insert into post.
So let's just see what our other blog posts looks like.
Because I like to have them look kind of similar.
This information right here the title of the blog post the date the author the tags.
This stuff is all set up automatically so that's not things we add.
It's just based off of when we actually post and who the author is.
The information below though is stuff that we actually type in so you can see if I just go here and
type in some words.
This is a bathroom ladder that's going to appear in our blog post just like how we created a page if
we also want to add a header.
We can do that by selecting our text and changing the paragraph style to heading.
Now I'm going to be going over a few tips and advice for using the different headings in a follow up
lesson so be sure to check that out because using your heading is great for both readability but also
SEO purposes.
So search engines actually see which words are in your headings and use it to make your posts appear
in search.
So if we want to add a list of supplies we can just click the bulleted list and add your supplies.
Now I don't have that exact list of supplies right now but I can just make a short list and so if we
preview this it's going to open up our blog post and a new tab and we can see what it looks like.
Pretty cool.
Pretty cool but say we want a big header image right here like this because now let's just go ahead
and publish this post if we want we can set the publish date for a future time by clicking publish me
Lee and then click the edit button and then setting the date and time that you want to publish it.
This is great for pre writing a bunch of content that is scheduled out or you can publish it immediately
by clicking publish now I wanted to do that just because I wanted to show you now when I click on the
blog page what it looks like we have the blog title but there's no image that image comes from our featured
image which right now is down here in the bottom right.
So if we click featured image and now we would want to set an image as our featured image.
You can click there and then say set as featured image.
It's probably a good idea to have multiple images and not use the same exact image that's in your blog
posts as your featured image because it gets a little repetitive.
So now if I update that and then I refreshed the blog page that image becomes the featured image and
you can see that it crops it to this aspect ratio.
And now if I go to my blog page we have the featured image appear on top of the blog title.
And if people want to click the bathroom ladder or the read more page it goes to this blog article.
If we want our image to be on the right side like this we can just go back to our image select it and
then say write a line make it a little bit smaller.
Something like this and then let's click and drag.
And as I click and drag I can see where the cursor appears on the left hand side and we'll just put
it right next to the supplies list.
So if we preview changes you can see now that it's on the right side of the supplies list.
Now I would go through add more content add more images.
But now you know how to write and create new posts.
One good thing to know is the featured image.
The other is with categories so categories are how you organize your different blog articles.
So for this article I would categorize it as a DIY and then probably a new category for bathroom.
It's ok to post your blogs in multiple categories.
So to add that new category you just clicked add new category.
Type it out and then click add new category.
So now the reason why we do this is because in the future there is plug ins where you can actually create
a blog list such as on this blog page or even right here on the right side of these categories that
only show a certain blog articles for a tag.
So let me show you how that works right now on my own site video school online.com.
You can see here that I have recent articles and podcasts.
These are all blog articles that are showing up and these are all chronological order.
So the latest one whether it's a podcast or just a regular article no matter what category it's in appears
here.
But if I go to my podcast page only the podcast articles appear because I said on this page to only
show articles that are in the podcast category in the blog page what I did was I actually excluded the
podcast category.
So that is how you can use different categories for your articles.
Another thing is say I click on one of these articles and it depends on the theme that you're using.
But you can show related posts down below and the related posts have to do with the categories.
So it's not going to show podcasts in this related posts because this post is about video production
but it will show the other pose related to video production down here.
So it's really a good idea to organize your blog articles into different categories in terms of tags.
These are tags that search engines will look for and will use to make sure that your articles show up
in search for specific keywords.
So for this article I would probably type in DIY woodworking project bath room ladder towel different
words that have to do with his bathroom ladder.
Then just click add.
But that's basically how you edit your own blog post.
Make sure that you update it when you are completely done.
And like I said earlier in an upcoming lesson I'm going to explaining how to use headings in the proper
way.