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Now you’ve set up your blog, let’s take a look around!

1. Click on ‘Dashboard’ to get started

2. Welcome to your Dashboard! This is the behind-the-scenes area of your blog

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Setting up your public profile

Part of blogging is joining a community of people who enjoy writing and sharing ideas. So

you need to have a good public profile that projects who you are (or who you want to be) to

the world. With WordPress this profile is called your Gravatar (Globally Recognized

Avatar)

1. Access your public profile editing function through clicking on ‘Users’ and then ‘My

Profile’ on your Dashboard

2. Fill in as much or as little information as you wish to here. Remember this is public

so you might not want to put too much personal detail here

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3. Probably the most important part of your profile is your image (or Gravatar).

This represents you throughout WordPress. To upload your image, click on

‘Change your Gravatar’. Then click on ‘Upload a new image…’

4. Choose a picture from your Computer, or USB stick by clicking on ‘Choose

file’

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5. Once uploaded, the ‘no file chosen’ text should change to reflect your

picture’s file name

6. Click on ‘next’ to take you to the cropping function screen. This allows you to

trim your image to look just right for your Gravatar

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7. Once you’ve cropped and finished with your image, you’ll be asked to rate your

picture

8. You should now see your picture alongside your profile details in a blue box.

It is now safe to close this window and return to your blog’s Dashboard

Well done! Your public profile is complete!

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Creating your blogposts and making them look good

1. To access existing blogposts and create new ones, click on ‘Posts’ in your

Dashboard

2. You created a blogpost when setting up your WordPress blog. To find this,

click on ‘All posts’. Once you’ve found your post, click on ‘Edit’

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3. Welcome to your blogpost editor. This is how it will look from now on (the set

up version was a bit more basic)

4. Let’s insert an image to make this post look at bit more interesting. Click on

‘Add media’ in the top-left hand corner of your main editing screen. This will

open up a pop-up screen. Click on ‘select files’ to find your picture…

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5. …and then click on ‘insert into post’

6. Your image should now appear in your post

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7. Now we’re going to link to another blog. You can use this method for anything

with a web URL. Select the text that you want to make a hyperlink and click on

the ‘Insert/edit link’ button in the top area of your edit screen

8. A link box will open, giving you the option to enter your desired URL. Click

‘Add link’ and your selected text is now a hyperlink

9. Once you’re happy with your post, click the ‘Publish’ button to release your

work into the wider WordPress community! Remember, you can go back and

edit your posts at any time

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