How to login and write your first post on Wordpress

Logging In to Your Blog

When you have a blog on WordPress.com, you have a public side and a behind-the-scenes side. The public side is what the world sees when they visit your blog domain. WordPress.com calls the behind-the-scenes side the Dashboard. The Dashboard is where you write and manage entries, change the look of the blog, and do other administrative tasks. When you log in to your blog you are given access to the Dashboard. You can log in to your WordPress.com blog in the following ways:

Go to YOURBLOGDOMAIN/wp-login.php
On your blog, choose Login under the Meta menu.
Go to WordPress.com and sign in under Already Hip. Then select your blog under Your Blogs.

Logging in to WordPress.com by any of these methods brings you to the same place - your WordPress.com Dashboard.

The WordPress.com Dashboard is a set of pages that enables you to:

Write blog posts
Manage blog posts
Change the design of your blog
Manage the comments on your blog

The next part of the article of this project covers all these activities.

Writing Blog Posts

Now that you have created your blog, what’s next? You need to fill it with blog entries. You do this by writing a new blog entry.

1. On the Dashboard, click the Write tab near the top of the page. This opens the Write Post screen. This is the page you use to add new posts to your blog. Posting a blog entry has two steps:

Saving - When you save the post, it is stored in your blog.
Publishing - When you publish a blog post, it becomes visible to people looking at your blog.

2. Enter a title for your blog post in the Title field. The title appears at the top of the blog entry and acts as a hyperlink to the blog entry. Your blog can be viewed as all your entries or one entry at a time. When you click on the blog entry title, only that entry is displayed.

3. Enter the blog post in the Post field. This is a special kind of text box. When you type in the box the text looks as it will appear on the blog. This is sometimes called WYSIWYG.

You can bold, italicize, and make text appear with a strike through it. There are a number of other formatting options for the text, including margins, bullets, and automatic numbering. This is the meat of your blog entry. Experiment with this part of writing blogs. Add pictures or other multimedia elements. Have a look at other blogs, see what they include, and if you like it, add it to your blog.

4. After you have edited your post, click Save. The post is now saved to your blog.

5. When you are ready for other people to see your post, click Publish. Now your blog post is visible to anyone who goes to your blog. Don’t worry: If you want to you can unpublish the post.

6. Go to your blog and check out your new entry.

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