3. Writing a post
Posts appear in the main body of the blog and are in reverse chronological order, so the most recent will be at the top. If you want something more ’static’, like these instructions, use a page instead of a post.
Go to site admin, or to the dashboard page if you’re already in site admin. Click on ‘posts’ on the left, and then ‘Add new’, which takes you to a text editing screen. You need a title, and then you use the text editor much like you would any word processing programme – you can use bold, italics etc and change the colour of text (some of these options are accessible by clicking on the ’show/hide advanced toolbar’ icon on the far right of the toolbar)
Before you post, you should give your post a category, or it will automatically be given the category ‘uncategorized’. You add categories on the right and then check the box to include your post in that category. It can be in as many categories as you like. This helps later, when you have a lot of posts and want to search for a post on a particular topic. For example, for the book week blog, the categories were genres of books. Or you might have a ‘homework’ category relating to all posts you do as part of specific homework tasks and then separate categories for different areas of study.
Use the ‘save draft’ button if you’re worried about losing work, or if you want to save and come back to it later. This will save it as a draft and it will appear at the top of the page next time you go to the ‘posts’ screen.
IMPORTANT: When your post is finished, you need to click ‘publish’ to have the post put up on your site. You then need to click on ‘view site’ at the top to see how the post looks.
This Edublogs help page has a series of links that take you through how to add links, images, videos, documents and various other things to your posts. Highly recommended.
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