Publishing a new post

Blogs are composed of two main structures: posts and pages.

Your posts are where you’ll publish your main content such as what’s been happening in class. assignment information, homework, documents, and more.

Learn more about posts and ideas for writing posts here.

Publishing Posts Video

Watch the video below to learn about writing new posts

Publishing a new post

Publishing a new post is as simple as:

1.  Go to Posts > Add New.

2.  Give your post a title,  add your content and add your tags and categories.

• You can learn how to use your Visual Editor here.

3. When finished writing click Publish.

• You can preview your post before publishing by following these instructions.

Introduction to your Visual Editor

The area where you write your post is by default in Visual Editing mode which uses WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) option for formating.

It works similar to any Word processing software.

Simply write your post, highlight any text you want to format and then click the appropriate button in the toolbar to add formating such as bold, italics, number list.

Visual Editor Video

Watch the video below to learn about Working with your Visual editor formatting toolbarThe Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button is used to view the advanced formating options including heading styles, underlining, font color, custom characters, undo, redo.

Previewing your Draft

Before you publish your post it is a good idea to use the Preview option to see what it looks like to your readers.

You preview a post by clicking on Save Draft and then Preview. This opens up a draft version of your post in a new tab.

To make edits just go back to your Add New Post screen.