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Step 9: How to make a WordPress blog post

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WordPress blog posts vs. pages

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Well, both posts and pages will:

Posts, pages, what’s the big deal/difference?!

  • Have a title/headline (like “How to Use WordPress Tutorial” or “5-Day Free eCourse”)
  • Have body content (like all the words and images in this post)
  • Have meta info (author, publishing date, etc
  • Can be added, edited, and deleted.
  • Can be seen by anyone or password-protected so only certain people can see them.
  • Can contain text, video, auto, links, and images.
  • Can be spruced up visually and functionally with plugins and themes.

The difference is this:

Pages are less fluid; you typically have a small number of them that don’t change much over time, and they offer general information about your site, services, and products, among other things.

Posts appear on a dedicated “blog” page (similar to our Written Guides page), and you’ll be making a lot of them.

It’s probably going to be a post if you’re providing a tutorial (like this one), sharing a vacation narrative, recipe, or your ideas on correct deadlift form.

Now back to the tutorial stuff…

Back in the dash, Posts -> Add New.

add new blog post wordpress tutorial for beginners

And you’ll have something that looks a lot like the page we made earlier.

That’s because they’re basically the same as far as creating them is concerned, a couple of differences with blog posts.

When it comes to creating your blog posts, the biggest difference is that posts can have “Categories” – groups of posts that all relate to a certain topic.

To add a category to a post, just find that option in the right-hand sidebar.

add new category wordpress tutorial for beginners

Then you can either tick a box next to an existing category or create a new one by typing a name in the “New Category Name” box that appears.
You can also utilize various types of blocks, such as photographs, galleries, lists, quotes, and so on. (These can also be added to pages!)

In the top left corner of the screen, click the “Add Block” plus button to see all the different items you can add to your message.

types of blocks wordpress tutorial for beginners

Another thing you could do differently with your posts is use multiple heading sizes so that you can have sections of your page (like “Step 8: How to Create a WordPress Blog Post”)

as well as sections within sections (for example, a subsection called “How to Change Your Heading Sizes” inside this section).

In WordPress, heading sizes are named H2 through H4 (H1 is reserved for the page/post title), and you can modify the size of a heading by clicking one of those labels.

change header size wordpress tutorial for beginners

When you’re finished writing your entries, simply press the Publish button in the top right corner and you’re done!

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