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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Writing Your First Post

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Navigating the Edit Post screen

Bullet Refining your post options

Bullet Publishing your post

Bullet Editing your post

It’s finally time to write your first post on your new WordPress site! The topic you choose to write about and the writing techniques you use to get your message across are all on you; I have my hands full writing this book! I can tell you, however, how to write the wonderful passages that can bring you blog fame. Ready?

Composing a post is a lot like typing an email: You give it a title, you write the message, and you click a button to send your words into the world. By using the different options that WordPress provides — content blocks, discussion options, categories, and tags, for example — you can configure each post the way you like. This section covers the minimal steps you take to compose and publish a post on your site.

Composing Your Post

When you’re writing (or editing) a blog post, the editor window adopts the visual look and feel of the WordPress theme you’re using — this is what WordPress refers to as full site editing ...

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