New Bloggers Guide

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The Great Posting Adventure

Now that we’ve walked through the Dashboard interface, it’s time to explore the posting window. This is where you’ll be entering and editing the text of your blog.

First, we have to get there. To do so, you can either click on the Posts icon (the stick-pin), or hover your cursor over it. Hovering will reveal the drop-down menu pictured to the right. Clicking Posts straightaway will take you directly to the Posts window (as shown below.

All you need to know right now about this drop-down menu are the Posts and Add New links. The former will also take you to the Posts screen, while the latter goes directly to the Add New Posts window. Let’s say you click Posts first. You will go to a screen that looks like the one pictured below:

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You’ll notice that this window is neatly divided up into columns. Any information here that is colored blue is a link that will take you to a new area of WordPress. These columns should be largely self-explanatory, but we’ll run though them quickly to make sure we’re all on the same page…

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