The basic hands-on steps of using a WordPress-based website.
Logging In, Creating a Post, Managing Posts

Step 1 - Log In

WordPress inserts a “Meta” set of links that contain the site login link - you click it, authenticate, and voom:

You’re in:

To write a post, you click on ‘Write’ in the top navigation bar and you’re taken to the ‘Write Post’ entry page. (Pages are different, we’ll discuss them in another installment):

You enter a Title for the Post, the text, check the categories you’d like it to show up in, whether or not you’re going to allow comments or pingbacks, and more.

You can also upload photos, but we’ll cover that later.

You click ‘Publish’ and the page goes live - or, just click ‘Save’ and it will wait as a ‘Draft’ - a post can be ‘pulled back’ at any time by changing it’s status. The site navigation automatically updates to show the new posting.
Once you’ve posted a page, you can edit it by using the ‘Manage’ page - you can change the text and image content, switch categories, add/remove keywords, password-protect it, etc, etc, ETC!!!

And that’s IT - you’ve just created a ‘Posting’ on your site.

WordPress is technically a weBLOGging tool, but it can also create and manage static (as in not-date-organized) ‘Pages’ and Pages can be ‘Sub Pages’ to give them hierarchy. Usually there’s a mix of Pages and Posts on a site.

You can chose to have discussion or NOT, just turn off commenting. You can even edit the basic templates to come up with you own totally unique site.

Stay tuned for more “Under the Hood” - next time we’ll talk about images in Posts and Creating and Organizing Pages.