It’s very easy. Basically there are 3 main ways that you can use to post on your blog. I’ll start with the most used, which is the one in the administration area. I assume this post will be read only by people new with wordpress, if you already made a post you know how to do it, so what I’m doing now it’s kinda` useless.  Ok, so, here we go: let’s say you installed your blog or someone else did it for you and you want to make a post. You must have the admin info (user and password) to do that, so if you don’t have them you must ask for them. Having those ready, you need to go to ‘yourblogurl.com/wp-login.php’. After you’re logged in, you will see your dashboard. That’s not important for now. You just need to click on the button named “Write” (you can find it in the upper left corner if you’re using newer versions). Once you click on that button, you’re automatically taken to the post writing area (using the same write button, you can go and write a static page or a link, but ‘post’ is the default option).

Now, you’re in the writing area. Enter the title, then start writing your post. Make sure your title is search engine optimized (eg. contains a keyword you want to target, etc). When you’re done, scoll down and you will see the “tags” area. There you must enter your tags(or keywords). That’s not a must, but it’s important for SEO purposes. If you scroll down even more, you’ll see the categories area where you can include your post in one or more categories. That’s about it. When you’re done, just hit “save” to save it or “publish” if you want other people to be able to see it. Please note that if you don’t publish it, it will still be saved, but it won’t be available for others.

That’s it, you wrote your first post using wordpress.

Earlier in this post I was saying about 3 ways to write a post on wordpress. The one above was the first one. The other two aren’t so much used, but they’re very useful. Another way to post to your wordpress blog is using the XML-RPC protocol. XML-RPC enables a background communication channel for to manage your blog. Don’t worry, it’s quite secure so you can use that too without being afraid of something.

It works like this. First, you have to enable it. You can do that by accessing the writing settings page (“Settings” > “Writing”). If you go to that page, you’ll see this:

To have XMLRPC enabled, just check that checkbox and hit “Save changes”.

If you have this setting enabled, you can use external posting services to post remote, schedule posts, post multiple articles at once, buy content from PLR websites, etc (a lot of tasks, really). I’ll come back with more info related to XML-RPC in a later post.

The third way is ‘email publishing’. To be honest, I didn’t use that, but I assume it logs in to your email account, it grabs your email messages and posts them on your blog (based on some user/password of course as you could get a lot of spam emails going online as posts) – I strongly recommend being carefully with this one :)

Hope it helps and hope you enjoyed this post. If you did, please share it with your friends.

Thanks,

- Peter