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Lesson 1.2: Using the WordPress dashboard to create posts and pages

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Content Overview: Posts and pages are the elements of display in a blog. Posts are entries of content and pages are one of the ways in which the content is organized. Most blogs consist of posts (content entries) arranged in reverse chronological order with the most recent post displayed on the blog homepage.

When designing a portfolio, posts are not chronologically organized, rather a more static page structure is used to organize content. This allows the teaching portfolio designer to present and update multiple facets of professional growth simultaneously. The viewer visits the homepage and clicks on links that connect to additional pages in the portfolio.

Are you ready to draft a test post and practice creating a few pages for your portfolio? Read ALL directions to Activities 1.2.A and 1.2.B before you start them.


Activity 1.2.A: To create a test post, do the following:

1. Open a new tab, then click back on this tab;

2. Use the new tab to go to the WordPress site (WordPress.com) and toggle back and forth to this site as needed;

3. Log in to WordPress and sign in. Click on your user name, select "Manage My Blogs" and click on "Dashboard";

3. Refer to this .pdf document for step-by-step directions for creating your test post: File:WordPress Posts.pdf


So do you know the basics of how to create a post? Great work! If not, review using this video: [1]. Now add a few pages to your portfolio. Don't worry about what to call each page you create; you will devise meaningful names later when your portfolio begins to take shape.


Activity 1.2.B: To create a new page, do the following:


1. If your WordPress account is open, skip to Step 4 of this procedures list. Otherwise, open a new tab, then click back on this tab;

2. Use the new tab to go to the WordPress site (WordPress.com) and toggle back and forth to this site as needed;

3. Log in to WordPress and sign in;

4. Click on your user name, select "Manage My Blogs" and click on "Dashboard";

5. On left side of dashboard, click on "Pages";

6. Select "Add New" in the drop-down box;

7. Title your page "Trying It Out" and add some text if you wish;

8. On right side of dashboard, click on "Save Draft";

9. On left side of dashboard, click on "Pages" and select "All Pages" in the drop-down box;

10. "Trying It Out" should appear on the list. Success!


If you need a visual of this process, view up to 2:50 in this video: [2]. Create three or four more more pages. Give each a different, temporary title and click on "SaveDraft". Use the "All Pages" function to make sure they are saved. Notice that on the "All Pages" screen, an editing menu appears for each page when you place the cursor on or near a page title. Knowing this will come in handy in Lesson 1.3!


Lesson 1.2 Self-Check: How did you do with creating posts and pages? Think about the answers to these questions, using the resources to help you if needed.

  • How is a portfolio organized differently from a blog?
  • How do you access the dashboard on WordPress? Is it YOUR dashboard or a multiple user dashboard? How do you know?
  • In what ways are posts related to pages? If you could visualize a Venn Diagram for posts and pages, what would they have in common?
  • Which do you think was simpler to create, a post or a page? Why?


Next steps: Are you ready to move on? Go to Lesson 1.3: Embedding multi-media artifacts into a post page


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