How do I add posts? Categories? Stickies? How do I publish a post with time delay? How can I add more pages? How do I change the order the pages display in the navigation bar? And more…

Here you will find the real basics on using WordPress. More to come with time going by…

Chapter 1: Posts
1.1 Normal posts
1.2 Titles/Headings
1.3 Categories and Tags
1.4 Sticky, Password protected, Private
1.5 Publish with time delay
1.6 Edit/Delete a post

Chapter 2: Pages
2.1 Pages
2.2 Sub-Pages
2.3 Pages’ order

Chapter 1: Posts

1.1 Normal post

To add a new post on your WordPress blog login to your admin area.
On the left side choose Posts  and choose “Add new”



Enter a title for the post and text.
Once you’re done hit Publish



1.2 Titles/Headings

On a post you can add several subtitles and several levels of subtitles. To do this use the preset heading styles. This allows you to have them looking the same throughout your blog. To apply a heading style to a title you need to add the title between heading tags

for level 1

for level 2

for level 3
and up until level 6.

The looking of these styles are different for each theme so you will have to try out what they look like.

1.3 Categories and Tags

To organize your posts on WordPress you can divide them into Categories (or groups) and Sub-Categories. To do that have a look at this fiels



To add a new Category hit “Add New Category” and enter the name of it and hit add



You will now see that the Category appears on the list



To add a Sub-Category choose again “Add New Category” and under Parent category choose the main category of the new one. In the example here Rock will be a sub-category of Music.



Hit add and you will see the sub-category appearing in the list



Another way to organize the posts is by using Tags. Tags are short keywords which tell the visitors and search engines what the post is about. Separate keywords with commas such as “Thea Beatles, Yellow Submarine, Youth” and hit “Add”



1.4 Sticky, Password protected, Private

You can make a post to be a Sticky. Sticky means that this post will stay at the top of the front page. Even if you add more posts afterwards the post will still be at the top and the newer posts will follow after it. This is used for special or important announcements.

To do this go to the section called “Publish”, under “Visibility” hit “Edit” and choose “Stick this post to the front of the page”.



You can also password protect it or make it private so only you see it.

1.5 Publish with time delay

If you want to write multiple posts at a time and have them being published one after the other maybe also while you’re on vacation and don’t have access to a computer then you can set a publishing time delay.

Per default posts are published immediately but if you hit “Edit” you can set a date and time for the post to be published. Once you entered the date and time hit “Ok” and “Publish”.



1.6 Edit/Delete a post

Once you’re logged in to your blog you will find an “Edit” button on each of your posts in case you want to edit it. Otherwise go to to your admin area and hit “Posts”, “Edit” and you will see a list of your posts. When you select the post of interest you will see some links appearing “Edit, Quick Edit, Delete, View”.

Chapter 2: Pages

2.1 Pages

To add a page go to your site administration area hit page and Add new



Choose a title for it which will display in the menu and write the content. Again you can use headings for sub-titles as in posts.

2.2 Sub-Pages

In WordPress you can add Sub-Pages to the Main-Pages. These sub-pages will display in the menu only when people are on the main main page which goes with it. To achieve this go to the page’s Attributes section and choose a Parent page, main page for the new one. In the example I’ve set Webmaster as the parent page. The new page will display in the menu only when people visit the Webmaster page.



2.3 Pages’ order

Setting the order in which the pages display in the navigation menu. The best way to do that is go to “Pages” and “Edit”. Now the page displaying on the far-left of the menu will always be the Blog. For the other pages numeration starts from 0.
0 will be the second page from the left displaying in the navigation, 1 the third page from the left, 2 the fourth, and so on…
To set that number hover your mouse pointer over the title of the page and you will see “Quick edit”, hit it, under “Order” enter the desired number and “Update Page”.