A rough begining
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A total novice to blogging – Just established ‘My Site’ and now trying to publish some short stories.
How do I begin? How do I continue?
Need some guiding help.
Any volunteers? Any help will be greatly appreciated and will be passed on to future novices. Thanx much.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi and welcome to WordPress.com
First things first. Understanding the difference between Posts and Pages is a good start. You can follow and work through the links.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/And then your front page can show all your resent stories (posts)
Or you can have a different page for your Posts. A static front page will show the content of the Page you selected as your “Static Front Page” You can add pages in the wp-admin link on the bottom left of your dashboard, click on pages and ad new. Here is a link on how to make a static home page.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/Customize is also your friend. it is pretty straight forward.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/customize/Hope this helps you out for now.
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Hi,
I suggest you to have a look at this link: https://learn.wordpress.com/
This way, you will get the hang of the basics.
Happy blogging!
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@s55555g
I see that you have not set-up your theme yet.The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.
If the log-in information is lost you need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set up instructions like this one https://wordpress.com/themes/gateway/ and a live demo site like this one https://gatewaydemo.wordpress.com/
For creating a post in the New editor see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
For creating a page in the new editor see here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-pageFor editing in the new editor see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/ -
I wish to thank the three bloggers that took their time and have kindly replied to my plea for help. Your constructive references and suggestions are very helpful to a rookie like me and possibly to others with the similar needs.
You made my day and I am so glad and proud to join this community which has such helpful members like you. Thank you and God bless.
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