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Go to theDashboard’ssidebarand

clickPosts.^1 Hereyou can see all

the postsyouhavecreated foryour

site, or select only thePublished or

Draftposts.^2 Hoveryour mouseover

apostfor optionsto edit it, sendit to

the trash or seeapreview.^3

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ClickAddNew^1 to writeanew

post.WordPressuses different

blocksto create the various sections of

your post.Type aheadline intothe first

block,^2 then addsome bodytext.^3

Clickablockto reveal itsformatting

options.^4 Theplus button^5 letsyou

addanew blocktype,suchasanimage

or galleryblock.

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To add an image,you can either

upload itto WordPressorgoto

your media library and chooseoneyou

uploaded previously.When writing

your bodycopy, tap Enterto createa

newparagraphblock.Toreorder

blocks, drag the handle on the left.^1

Youcan previewyour page^2 at any

time.Click publish^3 when it’s finished.

MINIWORKSHOP|Createanewpostonyourwebsite

greatchoiceifyou’recreating your first

WordPresssitebecauseitlooks clean

and automatically displaysyour work to

look its bestonanysizeofscreen.

Other improvements

Version5.3 of WordPressfeatures a

wealth of othersmall butuseful

improvements,suchas automatic image

rotation(whichrotatespicturesaccording

totheir orientation data),better site-

health checks

(which you can

findunderTools)

and periodic

adminemail

verification to

ensureyour

admindetails

remain up todate.

Thesoftware

offers full support

forPHP 7 4–the

latestversion of

theprogramming

language–and

improvesdateand time functionality,too.

Edit your sections

Youcan add, removeand modifyany

sectionof your sitethroughthe Pages

menu. This is wellworth lookingatwhen

youfirstsetup your sitebecauseyou can

removeanydefaultelements you don’t

need, such as sample pages,contact

detailsand so on.

You’ll probably

want tokeep

pages such as

About andPrivacy

Policy–just

updatethem so

they’rerelevant to

your particular site.

Theprocessfor

editingapageis

similartoediting

apost.

Install plugins

One of WordPress’smostuseful features

is its support for third-party plugins to

expand whatthesoftwarecan do.The

defaultinstallation comes with Hello

Dolly(which displaysasonglyricinthe

upper-rightcorner oftheadmin screen

on every page andwasone of the first

plug-ins created for the platform) and

Akismet Anti-Spam (which,as itsname

suggests, protectsyour sitefrom spam).

If you’reusingCloudAccess.net tohost

your website,you’ll alsosee anAuto

Login tool. Toinstallmoreoptions,click

AddNewunderPlugins and browsethe

selection. Thesearecategorised by

Featured,Popular,Recommendedand

Favourites, or youcan search for a

particular plugin byname.Jetpack isone

youshould definitely install, becauseit

providesuseful information aboutsite

TheSiteHealthtoolrecommendsimprovementstoyoursite traffic and search engine optimisation.

Adduseful(andnotso useful)pluginstoyour WordPressinstallation

Managecommentingandmoderationunder
Settings,Discussion intheleft-hand panel

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