Congratulations, you’ve already come a long way!
There is more optimizing and tweaking to be done, but for the first part, your blog is good to go.
Before we continue, I recommend you get familiar with publishing content on your blog. If you log into your WordPress admin panel, you’ll see two options for adding content in the sidebar: “Posts” and “Pages”.
Posts are your standard blog content. Each time you add a post, it appears on the first page or your blog page (depending on the theme), ahead of all the older posts.
The blog is dynamic, always showing the latest posts first. In addition, posts can be tagged and added to categories and this adds more sorting options (e.g. show all posts in a certain category).
Pages, on the other hand, are static. They don’t appear on your homepage, don’t use categories or tags and can usually be navigated to from a navigation bar on your site.
Apart from this, there’s no difference between posts and pages. In terms of content, they are identical; anything you can publish on a post, you can also publish on a page and vice versa.
You can click on either “Posts” or “Pages” and you’ll see a drop-down menu from which you can choose to create new posts/pages or edit existing ones. Go ahead and click on “Posts”, then “Add New”.
You’ll see a page with a simple text-editor as well as some extra fields for the title and the SEO-plugin we installed earlier on.
For now, all I want you to do is make a simple first post. Add a title, the post itself and create a fitting category for it (this can be a simple test post. Don’t worry about the actual content, just yet). Then hit “Preview” to see what the post will look like. You can save post and page drafts and preview them, while you’re working on them. Once you’re satisfied with what you see, you can click “Publish” to make the content visible and available to your visitors.
That’s it! You’ve made your first blog-post!
Shologoo
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