How To Build A Poker Web Site

Now that we have the blog up and running it’s time to start writing about something right? OK, well here’s how we create your very first post. We’ll start in the Dashboard section.

On the left hand side of the Dashboard there is a button labeled “Posts.” Click on it.

Now simply click on “Add New.” You will be brought to a screen that reads “Add New Post.”

Directly below “Add New Post” is a box. This is where you will type in the title of your post. On the post you are currently reading the title of my post is “How To Create Your First WordPress Post.”

The big box is where you are going to start typing your post. This is where all your content goes. You have options to bold text, italicize text, do scratch thru’s, bulleted or numbered lists, make a section a “block quote” (more about that later), set the alignment of your page, link to other webpages, etc.

Below the content of your post is a section labeled “Excerpt.” Typically what I do is simply copy and paste the first paragraph. The Excerpt is only visible under certain settings or themes in WordPress. The Excerpt applies to categories and archives. We’ll cover that in a future post.

As of right now all your posts will be going into the “Uncategorized” category. If you want to create a new category on the fly look on the right hand side for the “+ Add New Category” button and click on it.

Now simply type in the name of your new category and click “Add.” As you can see from the picture once you have more than 1 category you will have the option to choose “Parent Category.” A Parent category is used for organizing posts. Let’s say you have a category on your website called “poker.” Poker is fairly broad. Now let’s say you want a new category called “Tournament Strategy” but you want it to be a sub-category of “poker.” “Poker” would be the parent category of tournament strategy in this case. Certain WordPress Themes allow you to use dropdown menu’s for your categories. Here’s a visual example…

In the above example taken from MMA High Performance Training in Oxnard, CA “About” is the parent of everything below it. “Trainers” is also the parent of the bios for the trainers. This would be known as Parent-Child-Grandchild categories.

Once you’ve set up a few categories you now have the option of choosing which category your post falls under. Simply check the box next to the appropriate category.

Post tags are used in a variety of ways. If you have search enabled on your WordPress blog people will be given results based on the tags you have provided for your posts. A “tag cloud” can also be created allowing visitors to search your site based on popular words or phrases. WordPress also makes use of something known as a “plug-in” which will be discussed in the near future where a popular plug-in known as “Yet Another Related Posts Plug-In” will show your visitors posts that are similar based on the tags you’ve chosen.

After you have everything set and ready to go simply click “Publish.” Your post is now on your website.