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HOW TO USE

WORDPRESS

VA 2015 - HOW TO USE WORDPRESS 1


Begin with the

END in MIND!

Steven Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People


WORDPRESS is a web

software that allows one

All screen shots are sourced from Microsoft, Wordpress and Google.


to easily create beautiful

website or blog.

VA 2015 - HOW TO USE WORDPRESS

This tutorial assumes that

Wordpress is not yet

installed

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Open your browser..


Type : www.wordpress.com


Then press return


This then appears


Then click this


Now this appears


Type your chosen Blog

address


If this appears


Then the blog address

already exist


So type another blog

address


If this appears


You can

proceed to

create your blog

site


Please write

down your Blog

Address


And click this to create

your blog


This appears next


Choose this


This will appear

for a short time


Then his appears


Type in your Email address


then the Username


Then the Password


When finished


Click this


This appears


We skip the options

for now so scroll

down


Till you reach this portion


Then click this


This would appear next


These are the

available THEMES ,

scroll down and


Choose one by

clicking it


Themes can be

change any time


For now Big Brother

is chosen


Click this


And this appears


We will initially use

Wordpress for free


So click this


And this appears


This is the My Site panel

You can scroll down

to see the rest



My Site panel allows

user to


Immediately set-up

and activate the site…


Do Administrative

control on the site…


Post a Blog….


Change the Look and

Feel of the site…


Lastly change the

Configuration of the site…


These are the

important functions

of the My Site panel


Now let us Customize

the blog site


Let us start here


Click this


For a short time

this appears


Then this appears


This shows how the

Blog would appear


While this would control

how it would look


Lets start

improving how it

looks


Again see this


In this theme

Custom Design

is not activated


Because of this we

cannot use this

design feature


So moving

on , click

this


This now appears


With this,

you can


Edit the Site

Title


Add a Tag

Line


And add a

Logo


For now, Site

Title will not be

change


but a Tagline

will be added,

so


Type the

TAGLINE and


It will now appear here


Adding LOGO

will be skipped


Then click this

to minimized

the panel


Continuing

with the site

set up, click

this


This now appears


Choose one of

the four Palette,


After Choosing

this Palette…


This would now display


Click this if

satisfied with

the choice


The chosen

Palette will set to

the background


And Color and

Background panel

will minimized


See this


Now we include a

Header Image


Click this to do that


This panel appears


Then click this


This now appears


Then click this


This now appears


The sample Header

Image will come from

Picture Folder


Click Picture Folder


this now appears


double click this


the picture files appears


choose a picture


Click the picture


Then Click this


This appears while picture

is uploaded


After uploading, the picture

now appears


Next, click this


The pictures appears next


This is the Header Image

area


It can be resize


Or move


When satisfied with

the image click this


This now is the Header Image


Header Image can be

change any time


Continuing click this to

minimize Header Image panel


Now we will add Widgets


Widget are bite size code that can be embedded


In a website to display text, pictures etc


Click this


This appears next


To add a Widget click this


A list of Widgets will

appear


Scroll down to see list


And choose the Widgets to

activate


Archives and Blogs

I Follow are chosen


This happens when

Archive is added


Archive widget now

appears


Lets put a Title to

the Widget


What you type here


Will show here


Now for Blogs I Follow

widget


Click this


This now appears


Again type a title

for the Widget


When this was

typed here


This was displayed


We set maximum of 10

blogs to be displayed,


Then display the

blogs in a list


Click Sidebar when

finished adding Widget


This appears next


Click this to

continue basic set-up


This again appears


Now click this


This appears now


See this


We will leave this as it is


And return to this


Finally click this to save

and publish the site


This again displays


Now its time to

start our first blog


Click this to

start blogging


But first we verify the email

address


Open your browser..


Click this for Gmail..


This appears..


Type the email address


Then the Password


Then click Sign in


This now displays


Click this


Follow the instructions for

account verification


This will show once

account has been verified


Now we can start our

first blog


Click this again


This appears next


A post or blog is

created at this screen


Type the blog Title here


Type the content of the

blog here


See this example of Title


See this example of

Message


To preview click this


This is the preview of

the first blog


To exit the preview click


This displays again


To post this message click


To go to our blog site click

this


This screen again displays


Then click this


And this displays


See, it looks exactly like the

preview


We have just installed

and used Wordpress!


To exit Wordpress,

click this


This will appear


Then click this


We now create a About

page


About page is use to

introduce yourself to

your readers


So make an interesting

About page


click this to login to

your site


This again appears


Type in the E-mail

address


And the Password


And click Log-In


And this again appears


Next click this


this appears next


Then click this


And the Dashboard

appears


Slide the mouse to Pages


And this displays


Click All Pages


See this


This panel allows to

edit an existing page


Go to ABOUT page


And this will appear


Then click Edit


This now appears


The About page can

now be edited


You do not need to

change the title


Just put a strong About

information here


Here is an example


When finished with the

edit ,click this


This will display


This means the page

was updated


And you can view the

page immediately


This is how the About

page look now


This can be verified by

accessing the blog


After verifying , click

this


This again appears


From here, click this to

post a Blog


Or click this to make

another Page


To exit from Wordpress,

click


This appears next


Then click to exit.


The Blog site is now

fully set-upped.


The world now awaits

your Blog.


HAPPY BLOGGING!


Begin with the

END in MIND!

Steven Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Internet

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