Praveesh's Blog

This is my first post of the wordpress for beginner’s tutorial series.

Let us start with wordpress. WordPress is an online tool that helps to build blogs and websites easily. Just with few steps you can setup a great looking blog or website.

To get started, you need a wordpress installed Blog, login information like username and password. If you do not have your own wordpress blog, then create one for free by clicking here ( free offer is availiable for students only). Or you can buy one by clicking here ( just Rs 1000).

I hope that your wordpress installed blog is ready. You will be given a login url, username and password by the administrator who gave you the blog.

Now, goto the login url. Mine is www.praveesh.com/wp-admin. You too will have a url like: www.yourblogname.com/wp-admin or www.yourblogname.com/wp-login.

Whatever it is, go to the url, give username and password , click Login.

After Logging in, you get a Dashboard as shown below:

Just check your Blog, it will look as shown below( its the basic theme, we will change the theme later).

Add New Post

Now let us learn how to start posting. To start posting , goto Posts-> Add New as shown below:

You will get an ‘Add New Post’ page as shown below:

Give a title for the post ( as i gave welcome) and prepare the post. You can add image, video, audio or any other media as shown below:

When your post is ready, give some tags related to your posts on the ‘Post Tags’ box. Then add a category name for your post. And atlast click Publish.

Your post will be published. Check your blog.

It looks great after seeing your first post published.

Change Permalink

Did you notice the Permalink? i.e. the link to the post you have just written. Its shown below:

It looks dirty na…. Let us create a beautiful link for our post. For that, click on Change Permalinks button. It will take you to a new window as shown below:

You are at the Default option. Click on Custom Structure and type as shown in picture below:

Save Changes. Thats all about setting beautiful links.

Add New Page

Now let us see, how to add pages. Goto Pages-> Add New

Give a Page name and prepare contents for that page. When the works in that page finishes, click on Publish. Check your blog for the newly published page.

I have added a new page ‘ Contact Me’.

Don’t forget read my next post about Changing the Theme.

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