Whilst this is titled adding a post, it also includes editing. To add a post, click on the add a post link, to edit a post, click on the post title itself or the edit link. There is two ways to delete a post, firstly in the post listing and secondly in the post itself. The delete link is in the right hand column.
When adding or editing a post there are several areas that can be completed.
- The title
- The content
- Post tags
- Categories
Most of the above are self-explanatory. There is a difference between tags and categories. Categories are not tags and tags are not categories but they do similar things. Tags have an importance in terms of search engine optimisation (seo) and also keywords. The best way to use them is to think of a general category such as news and then use tags to define posts within that category. So you might have youth, cars, computers all as tags within the category news. Some might say why not use sub-categories? You can. But in terms of seo it is more effective to use tags. It also helps your site navigation.
For instance let’s say we have two categories, one called news and one called sport. Within those categories we use a tag called youth. As a visitor to your site I could click on the tag youth and get a load of posts relating to youth or I could click on sport.
I don’t want to go on but here is a simple list to help you further:
- Tags can be categories, categories aren’t tags
- Tags are usually one word (youth), categories can be longer (Youth News or Guide to using WordPress)
- Tags help search engines, categories don’t
One final word. Categories will help visitors navigate your site far more effectively. So rather than have a category called news, I would be far more specific, e.g. Lostwithiel News and Surrounding areas. Then within that have a tag called news. The visitor can instantly see the category and can travel there or if they want to see more posts relating to news they can click on that tag.
There are other areas within the post such as the excerpt, trackbacks, custom fields, etc but these need wider coverage and will be dealt with at a later date.
