This chapter discusses creating and managing posts and pages in WordPress. It covers adding new posts using the visual or HTML editors, setting publish options like status and visibility, adding tags and categories to organize posts, editing existing posts, using Quick Press to create posts directly from the dashboard, and finally publishing the post.

1. Create a Professional Blog with WordPress
Chapter 4: Creating Post and Page
Atit Patumvan
Faculty of Management and Information Sciences
Naresuan University
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Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn about:
• How to create and manage post and pages
• The basic of content creation
• The advanced topic such as including images,
audio, and video
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Creating Posts
• The “New Post” button is context sensitive
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Adding a New Post Screen
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The Visual Editor
• Visual (default option) : Allows you to create your
post in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
• HTML : You might use the HTML editor to embed
HTML Code that you get from a third party.
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Publish Options
• Save Draft (button)
• Preview (button)
• Status (field) : Draft, Pending Review, Published
• Visibility (field)
• Publish (field)
• Edit (hyperlink)
• Publish (button)
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Post Tags
• Provide a way to group similar post topic together
in an informal way
• You can add optional tags that work much like
keywords
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Categories
• Categories are other way to organize your
information.
• Categories are more structured than post tags in
that can be hierarchical
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Edit Existing Post
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Quick Press
• Allow you to create your post directly from
Dashboard
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Publishing Your Post
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