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Hello and welcome.

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Now this video we are going to begin creating content with our WordPress site.

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Now in order to do that one of the first things you're going to do is you're going to go to the posting

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area once you're in the posting area.

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You are then going to click the Add new button

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and there are a couple of things that you want to know about creating posts.

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Posts are the most common way of creating content in a wordpress site and you are going to want to have

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your post organized by some kind of category.

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Now whenever you're in the posting area WordPress will start out with an um categorized area.

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But you can actually add a specific category to the posts that you are writing and all posts are going

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to be organized by category unless you decide to leave it on categorized and to a general area.

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The other thing that you're going to be able to do with your post is you're going to be able to create

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tags now tags are ways that search engines and other people can go to your site and find information

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that your post is going to be about.

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For example you might have hundreds of posts on your site.

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But if you have tags on that post then people will be able to go to your site put the tag into the search

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area and then find all of the posts that are going to be about that particular subject.

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And so posting is a very good way of using your WordPress site in order to distribute content.

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Now in order to create a post what you're going to do is you are going to use the whimsy wake editor

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and you can actually write in your post just as if you were writing into a Google Doc or a Microsoft

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Word document.

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I'm actually going to stop the recording right now and I'm going to put some text in here and you're

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going to notice that there's now text in the wheezy wake.

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And so one of the things that we are going to want to do is we're going to want to edit it so that it

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appears the way we wanted to appear.

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This will be one of the things that you're going to be able to do to make your content appear the way

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you want to.

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Now the other thing that you're going to be able to do is you're going to be able to add images to your

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post and the way that you do that is that you are going to put the cursor where you actually want the

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image you're going to click the ad media button and then you're going to either go into your media library

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or choose one from your hard drive.

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And this particular case you can go to your media library because we already have some information there.

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We're going to select in the image and then we're going to insert it into our post.

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Now one of the things that you'll want to do when you insert into a post is you're going to want to

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consider the size.

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And you're always going to have a couple of different options when you want to post your image.

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Now a thumbnail size image is going to be very small and medium size image is going to be take up about

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half of your page a large image is going to take up about two thirds of your page and a full size will

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take up the entire width of the page.

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So since we're just putting in an image that we want to take up part of the part of the page we're going

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to go ahead and just put a thumbnail image in and we're going to click insert into post.

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Now with the wheezy wake editor what you're going to notice is that it's actually going to show the

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way it's going to be when a visitor actually sees it.

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Once we have texts like this we can actually go in and edit the image.

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We can actually add it so that our image is going to be the way we want it.

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And so we can click a line left in our text will come alongside of our image.

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Now one of the other things that we can do inside of our post is that we can hyperlink to other places.

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And of course it works in the very same way as it would in any word processing software or any Web site.

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All we would do is copy the text or highlight the text and then we click insert link and the link that

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we're going to insert will be hyperlink to this information.

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So we would put our you our L in there

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and then click apply and we would have our hyperlink.

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As you can see of course one of the other things that we can do in our post as we would with any text

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based information we can bold information we can on italicized.

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We can strike through.

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OK.

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So once you actually have some of the information in there the way that you want what you do is as we

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said we're going to pick a category

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and we're going to add that new category and then we're to make this post about that category.

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We're going to write in some tags

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and once we've done that then we've only got one other thing that we want to do.

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And now one of the other things that WordPress will allow you to do is to set a featured image and this

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image is going to show when you share your post on social media sites like Facebook or Linked In or

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Twitter.

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And so you will just go and get a featured image you get the very same one that you had before going

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to click send a featured image and then will your post shows up.

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This image is going to show up representing that post.

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Now once we actually have the information the way that we want we would then click the publish button.

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And once we do that we'd go and visit our post

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and we can see how the post is actually going to look

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we can then write in here what we think the post is about

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and then we're going to click Update

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here and once again we have our updated information.

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Now there are several items across the toolbar that you'll be able to use.

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One of the things that you can actually do is you can actually toggle this toolbar down and you'll actually

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be able to see more options that you have available.

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For example if you wanted to underline text you could do it

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if you wanted to change the color of the text you could do that if you want to change that text back.

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You can do that or change so another color and so all these options are going to be available to you.

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The other thing that you can actually do is to change the formatting of the text by using these options

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you'll see them there some of the larger headings or you can just leave it as paragraph and this will

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retain the formatting that came with your theme so once you've completed all the information you want

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to update and you want to always look and view the posts so that you can see exactly what your post

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is going to look like when you are actually visiting from a Web site.

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OK.

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So what we're gonna do now is just write our title back in here

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with a quick update and then we are ready to go with our post.

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OK.

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So with that thanks.

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And I will see you in another video.