Adding A New Post

Modified on Thu, 9 Dec, 2021 at 1:18 PM

Posts are used for adding different types of content Adding a new post is easy if you follow these steps.

Click on Posts in the left side menu.
Click on the Add New button near the top left of the page.
Add a relevant title for your post and hit enter.
If your post will only contain text, then add your text and go to the next step. If you want to add other types of content, please see the block editor section below.
If you want to add an image to your post:
1. Look at the bar that runs down the right side of the page and click on Featured Image.
2. Click Set Featured Image and either select an image that has previously been uploaded or select one from your computer to upload now.
If your post should be included as part of a category:
1. Look at the bar that runs down the right side of the page and click on Categories.
2. Place a checkmark in the appropriate category.
When you are ready for your post to be live on the website, click the blue Publish button near the top right of the page. Note: You can always click Save Draft if you are working on a post but not ready to publish it yet.

Using The Block Editor

WordPress uses, what they call, a block editor. This is nice because it makes it easy to add different types of content to your posts by selecting a “block” for the type of content you want to add. For example, if you want to add a list to your post, you can select a “list” block and then just fill in your list items. These instructions won’t cover all of the different types of blocks but instead will generally explain how to use the block editor.

When you are entering the text for the body of your post and you hit enter, you will see that in faint gray text it says “Type / to choose a block”. That will work but it will only give you a list of common block types. To see a more complete list or search for a block type, click on the small black square with a plus in the center of it, called the “Add Block” button. This will also bring up a list of common block types, but from here you can search for a block type (like list or image) or click “Browse All” to see a complete list of available blocks.

Let’s say we wanted to embed a YouTube video in a post, here are the steps you would take to do so.

From within your post, click the Add Block button.
If you see YouTube in the list, you can click it, otherwise, type YouTube in the search box. Once you see the icon for YouTube, click on it.
A block will be added to your post asking for the YouTube URL, paste the URL you grabbed from the YouTube video into this box.
Click Embed.
When your post is published, the YouTube video will be embedded in the post content wherever it was placed within your post.