POSTING A BLOG AND ADDING LINKS & IMAGES
Go to the MRR login page at http://maximumrocknroll.com/wp-admin/ and log in!
You start at the Dashboard. Click the New Post button under Posts on the left (click Posts once if you don’t already see the options below it).
This puts you here:
1. This the title that appears in large text at the top of your blog post.
2. You can type the text of your blog here. The formatting buttons (bold, italic, underline, etc.) are pretty self-explanatory. Please do not use the Paragraph drop down until I’ve finished setting these styles (I’ll let you know when).
3. If you are copying and pasting the text from somewhere else be sure to use one of these two buttons. This way it will keep the same fonts as all of our other posts. [Click the Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button (3) to show the second row of buttons.]
4. To create a link: Select the link’s text in your blog and click this button. Always copy-and-paste the URL from the web so you know that it’s correct. After Target, select Open link in a new window, then click Update.
ADDING AN IMAGE
The image will be placed wherever your cursor is in the blog text. Click the first Upload/Insert button. Click on Select Files in the next window to choose a file on your hard drive. Once the image is uploaded you’ll get a box that looks like this:
1. You don’t have to add a caption, but it is our policy to give photo credits/sources when possible, so please include that in the caption or somewhere in your post when you have the info.
2. Click File URL button. This will allow viewers to click on the image in the blog to see it at its original size.
3. Selecting Left or Right will make your blog text wrap around the side of the image. “Large” size is defaulted to be the widest that our current template can accommodate. It’s a good idea to start here and if it’s too big, you can reduce it by selecting the image in your post and grabbing a lower corner point.
4. It will not appear in the blog until you click Insert into Post. If you don’t do this, all is not lost — the image will still be available in the Media Library (more on that in the next lesson).
PREVIEWING YOUR POST
At some point during this process it’s a good idea to click Save Draft so you don’t lose your work. Click the Preview to see what your blog will look like online.
If you’re happy with what you see, you can go back to posting page, click Publish, and you are done! See your beautiful work on the front page of our website: maximumrocknroll.com.
Or, you can continue to add/edit text and preview again and again until it looks good to you.
POST-DATING or BACK-DATING YOUR POST
You can set your blog to appear at a later time/date by clicking Edit next to where it says “Publish immediately” above. The “Publish” button will change to say “Schedule”. Clicking that button means you’re done with your post and it will appear on the website at the time you set. Of course, as always, you can edit your post at any time before or after it is published.
You can also set the publish date to an earlier date. You may want to do this if, for example, you posted a Monday Photo Blog a day too late, but want to make it appear that it came out on Monday …not that Mark would ever need to do that :)
Please note: for the first few days after the new issue is posted, new blogs will be posted below the new issue post. After that, the blogs will go back into the order they were published, so the newer posts will pop to the top of the page.
Remember, you can always edit or delete your post after it is published; or instead of publishing it, you can save it as a draft and come back to it at any time.
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