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How to Write a Post

Video Tutorial - How to Write a Post 

This video tutorial will take you through the process of writing a post.  To view the video, click on ‘play now’ or ‘play in pop up’ the player below.

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Left Side

  1. Log in to your site (click here for login video tutorial)
  2. WRITE - Click on ‘Write’ along the top navigation bar.  This takes you to the ‘write post’ area
  3. PAGE TITLE - Enter a title where it says ‘Page Title’
  4. PICTURE - Browse for a picture in the area titled ‘Yapb Image’ or leave it alone if you don’t have a photo.  Use .jpg format. 
  5. Uncheck the box ‘Post date from image exif data if available.’  If this box is checked, the article will post the the website with the date of the image, not the date of the article.
  6. CONTENT - Enter the content where it says ‘Page Content’
  7. TAGS - Enter tags where it says ‘Tags.’  Tags are words that are found in your content, and are similar to the words you’d find in the index of a book to help your reader find information.  Use the suggested tags area if you need suggestions for tags.
  8. UPLOAD - Use to upload a file, for example, a pdf.
  9. OPTIONAL EXCERPT - This area is for an excerpt of the article, usually the first 55 words by default.
  10. TRACKBACKS - you won’t need to do anything with this
  11. CUSTOM FIELDS - you won’t need to do anything with this
  12. All in One SEO - This is what Google and other search engines see.  Type in the title of your article, a short description about the content, and any keywords.  The keywords may be similar to your tags, along with any other prominent words that represent what your article is about.

Right Side

  1. CATEGORIES - Check mark the category box you want.  Multiple boxes may be selected.
  2. DISCUSSION - Leave the boxes checked to allow comments and pings 
  3. POST PASSWORD - Add a password here if you wish to password protect the page
  4. POST SLUG - A slug is the words that come after your url.  The default is the name of your post, so you don’t need to do anything here.
  5. POST STATUS - When we click the ‘Publish’ button, the post status will automatically change to published, so we don’t need to do anything with this.
  6. POST TIMESTAMP - If you want to change the date that the article is published to the website, you do that here.  If you change it to the future, it will hold the article until the date, and then automatically publish it at the date and time specified.
  7. POST AUTHOR - You can change the post author here if you wish.  Default is the username you logged in with.

Finishing Step

When the article is complete, you have three options, located below and just to the right of the ‘tags’ area:

  1.  SAVE AND CONTINUE EDITING - I recommend using this a lot if you are writing content directly into the content area.  Otherwise, if you lose your Internet connection, you will lose all your work.  Once the article is complete, choose one of the other two options below.
  2. SAVE - This will save the article for later editing without publishing it to the website
  3. PUBLISH -This will publish the article to the website at the date and time in the ‘Post Timestamp’ area.