Wordpress Classes : How To Create A Wordpress Blog Post

In this week in our wordpress classes series we look at how to create a wordpress blog post. When you log in inside your wordpress dashboard for the first time you can feel intimidated by all the buttons and be afraid of doing damage to your blog by clicking on the wrong thing. Worry no more, this post will teach you How To Create A Wordpress Blog Post.

The most important buttons in your "new post" page.  
The new post page looks like the image below. As you can see they are many buttons but I will focus on the buttons necessary to create a blog post by a beginner.

The Title
The top part titled "Title" is where you put the title of your blog post. The characters in the title should be less than 70. Search engines such as Google show only 70 characters, any thing more than that and they will cut your title. When the title is cut it loses meaning.

The Visual vs HTML
Always choose the Visual option. HTML option is complicated and only recommended for advanced users. 

The Menu
The menu is similar to your Microsoft Office Word. You can bold, centre, number undo and bullet just like you do in WORD.

Categories
On the right hand side you will see Categories button. It is always important to put every post in a category. When readers click on category tab in your homepage they will be directed to all the post in that category. 

Save
Wordpress has an automatic auto save, so you don't need to keep clicking save every time you finish a sentence or paragraph.

Publish.
Once you are done writing your post just click publish and the page will refresh and you will see an alert at the top "your post has been published" If you click view the post, you will see your post published on the blog. 

writing a wordpress blog post can be terrifying for a beginner but don't worry. As you keep on writing it will become a piece of cake.

You can watch this video tutorial on  How To Create A Wordpress Blog Post


References ; Wordpress Official Site.

How to create a Wordpress site

This week on our wordpress classes series we focus on how to create a wordpress site. The great thing about Wordpress is that it is customizable. It starts out with a very plain look, but you can customize that look to reflect your style.

In this class you will learn a variety of useful techniques to make the most of wordpress. And, by the time the presentation ends, you will gain enough knowledge to create your own Wordpress site.

This video presentation will teach you how create or build a Wordpress site, how to create a page, how to create posts, how to choose a theme, how to install a plug-in and how to set up widgets,

It’s an informal real-time presentation in-case of any questions please leave them in the comments section and I will gladly reply

Wordpress Video Guide For Beginners

Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform in the world. You can use wordpress to set up you blog or even build a website. The reasons why wordpress is very populare are:- 

• Easy to use, you don't need technical knowledge
• It is free - the software is provided for free by wordpress.org
• You get plenty of support when you run into problem. If you ever run into a problem when using Wordpress you just need to Google the problem and you will find someone with a solution. 
• Thousands of themes - There are thousand of designs that you can choose to match your preference or niche. 
• Thousands of plugins - Wordpress has many plugins that you can add to your blog to enhance the performance.

Wordpress Video Guide For Beginners

Those are the main advantages of choosing wordpress. If you are getting started and have decided to use wordpress the following video will show you the basics that every beginner needs to know; Enjoy

Wordpress Video Guide For Beginners - Part 1


Wordpress Video Guide for Beginners Part 2

Hostgator.com Quick And Easy Wordpress Install Guide

Installing a Wordpress blog on Hostgator is a simple process. Once you login in inside your Cpanel you have the option to do an easy install with QuickInstall or Fantastico.

The following are video guide / tutorial on how to install Wordpress blog on your Hostgator.com account.

These videos will show you step by step guide of the icon you should look for and click inside Cpanel to do a successful Wordpress install. Don't be afraid, installing wordpress on hostgator will be a piece of cake once you watch the videos.

Installing WordPress Blog on HostGator with Quickinstall



Installing WordPress Website on HostGator with Fantastico




Although you can you can install wordpress on hostgator by downloading Wordpress from wordpress.org and uploading the files directly or by using Filezilla, I recommend you use the following scripts. Fantastico and Quickinstall makes wordpress installation on hostgator quick and easy.

10 Min Video Demo On How To Build A Church Website Using Wordpress

In our series How To Build Your Own website, this post will focus on How To Build A Church Website Using Wordpress. Wordpress is renowned with blogging but it can be used to create a Website.

Get Your Free Church Domain Name

The first step in creating a church website is to purchase the domain. Domain names cost anywhere from $10/year to $50/year but I recommend you advantage of a free domain name from bluehost webhosting. Bluehost webhosting will give you a free domain when you sign up for there web hosting. They have a cheap web hosting plan for church website that cost $6.95/m.

The domain name should preferably be the name of your church. If that is not available you can try having dashes between the words or adding initials or location or interchanging the words.

Now Watch this 10 minutes video presentation on how to build a church website with wordpress.