Wordpress. How to start for very beginners.
So yesterday I registered on Wordpress. But I feel myself absolutely dumb there. :( Have spend several hours to post 2 pages. But I still don't understand how to write a book. The pages I posted loo...
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@chealsycat
Wow! You're doing great! Never feel like you have to delete everything. You can always check with me and @ra3rei and others, and we'll help! Sometimes, like you're discovering, it takes some playing around and trying different things. You're really doing great! So big pat on the back!
Also, I really like the text you wrote on your "cover" page! :)
And now! Onto the questions! :)
So my current questions are:
1. What's the difference between Pages and Blog posts?
Posts show up in your "Recent Posts" page in reverse chronological order. So when you write a new one, it's at the top, and then the one you wrote before that is below it, and so on.
You can assign "tags" to posts to help people find them better, for example #Bear and #BearClub and #CrazyDancingBears and so on!
You can also assign posts to "categories" as another way of organizing them. (Some WordPress authors use categories, rather than Table of Contents pages).
Pages are static, meaning that they won't show up on a "Recent Posts" page. You determine where the pages show up.. They don't use "tags" or "categories" .
I use "Posts" for my chapters. When I write a new chapter of my story "Wonder," for example, I write it as a new post.
I use "Pages" for my table of contents. Each story I have has its own page. So, my story "Wonder" has its own Table of Contents page, and when I write a new post, I always make sure that I add the new post to the Table of Contents page for that story. I do this by hand because I'm old school! :) There are other ways of doing this, and other users can help with those ways, if you have questions.
2. What should I do now to publish updates to the story?
Yay! To publish updates, click new post. That's the little pencil icon in the upper right.
Click that, and the editor will open and you can write your update!
It will save automatically.
Click Preview to preview, and Publish to publish!
Once you click Publish, it will show up on your Recent Posts page, and all your followers will receive email notification that it's there! :)
3. I still don't understand why I'm following myself.
LOL! Me, neither! I follow myself, too. It's a WordPress thing, I guess!
4. What is Press This button for?
Here's what it says about this in WordPress help:
"Press This provides a lightning-fast way to grab text, images, or video from any website and post it to your blog without ever visiting WordPress.com. You can also use Press This to quickly share a link on your blog."
I've never used it once, so I don't know about it. If you want to use it, maybe another WordPress user can explain how they use it, why to use it, and when to use it!
5. I'm still dreaming of making Contents for my story. :)
Yay! Let's do it!
Your Table of Contents will be a page.
So create a new page. Title it Table of Contents, or Contents.
Then, you can add links to the posts in the order that you want them to be in!
Ask more when you want more specific help!
Remember, don't give up and don't delete! If it's not working the way you want it, take screen shots and share them with us, or try something else, or come back later, and ask a bunch of questions!
We can figure out everything!
You're doing great, and your website looks awesome already! :)
Wow! You're doing great! Never feel like you have to delete everything. You can always check with me and @ra3rei and others, and we'll help! Sometimes, like you're discovering, it takes some playing around and trying different things. You're really doing great! So big pat on the back!
Also, I really like the text you wrote on your "cover" page! :)
And now! Onto the questions! :)
So my current questions are:
1. What's the difference between Pages and Blog posts?
Posts show up in your "Recent Posts" page in reverse chronological order. So when you write a new one, it's at the top, and then the one you wrote before that is below it, and so on.
You can assign "tags" to posts to help people find them better, for example #Bear and #BearClub and #CrazyDancingBears and so on!
You can also assign posts to "categories" as another way of organizing them. (Some WordPress authors use categories, rather than Table of Contents pages).
Pages are static, meaning that they won't show up on a "Recent Posts" page. You determine where the pages show up.. They don't use "tags" or "categories" .
I use "Posts" for my chapters. When I write a new chapter of my story "Wonder," for example, I write it as a new post.
I use "Pages" for my table of contents. Each story I have has its own page. So, my story "Wonder" has its own Table of Contents page, and when I write a new post, I always make sure that I add the new post to the Table of Contents page for that story. I do this by hand because I'm old school! :) There are other ways of doing this, and other users can help with those ways, if you have questions.
2. What should I do now to publish updates to the story?
Yay! To publish updates, click new post. That's the little pencil icon in the upper right.
Click that, and the editor will open and you can write your update!
It will save automatically.
Click Preview to preview, and Publish to publish!
Once you click Publish, it will show up on your Recent Posts page, and all your followers will receive email notification that it's there! :)
3. I still don't understand why I'm following myself.
LOL! Me, neither! I follow myself, too. It's a WordPress thing, I guess!
4. What is Press This button for?
Here's what it says about this in WordPress help:
"Press This provides a lightning-fast way to grab text, images, or video from any website and post it to your blog without ever visiting WordPress.com. You can also use Press This to quickly share a link on your blog."
I've never used it once, so I don't know about it. If you want to use it, maybe another WordPress user can explain how they use it, why to use it, and when to use it!
5. I'm still dreaming of making Contents for my story. :)
Yay! Let's do it!
Your Table of Contents will be a page.
So create a new page. Title it Table of Contents, or Contents.
Then, you can add links to the posts in the order that you want them to be in!
Ask more when you want more specific help!
Remember, don't give up and don't delete! If it's not working the way you want it, take screen shots and share them with us, or try something else, or come back later, and ask a bunch of questions!
We can figure out everything!
You're doing great, and your website looks awesome already! :)
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