Blogging 1.01

Thanks to the CWs who joined in the intro to blogging session, which I hope was helpful.

Just a reminder, to get to the dashboard that I was showing you (grey navigation menu down the left hand side) type in your blog URL, then add ‘wp-admin’ to the end.  You will need to login to your wordpress account before you can access this.

One important thing I need to mention: When you are submitting a blog post for assessment tasks (or anything else), make sure you get the ‘live’ URL, not the ‘edit’ URL.  This is why it’s good to have 2 tabs open: your edit window (dashboard, backend) in one, and the live blog in the other.  So the ‘live’ URL for the example post I made today is:

https://tryingtohelpblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/demo-post/ (this is good, public, anyone can see)

The ‘edit’ URL looks like this:

https://wordpress.com/post/tryingtohelpblog.wordpress.com/192 (this is baaaaad, no one but you will be able to see this)

To get the ‘live’ URL, click on post heading on your live blog.  So for the post I made today, I get to the live URL by clicking on ‘Demo post’ on the live blog.

I just wanted to mention that, as it’s often a confusing point for new bloggers.  I’m happy to clarify further if you need.

Follow the link to see some more troubleshooting on logging in:

If you’re getting confused with logins etc, start by logging in at wordpress.com:

wordpress dot com

Then once you’re logged in, click ‘My sites’ in the top left and select your blog

my sites

You may get a dashboard that looks like this:

alt dashboard

Which is a perfectly fine way to add new posts, I just prefer the ‘wp-admin’ dashboard that I mentioned in the session.  Happy blogging!

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