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Quick Start – Add a New Post

Posts differ from Pages in that they have an inherent structure to them. The most basic example of this is a News or Blog section on your website.

Once logged in, you’ll see the WordPress Tool Bar across the top of the page:

Website Editing Toolbar

To add a new Post:

Posts require some special settings that are done in the native WordPress Editor before you launch the Drag & Drop Editor to add the content to the new post.

  1. Using the Toolbar at the top of the window, choose New > Post
  2. The Post Editor will open, from here, Type a title

  Screen Options

If the WordPress toolbar at the top of the page has disappeared, you're in Fullscreen mode. To exit fullscreen mode, click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner. Untick Fullscreen mode.

Choose a Category for the Post

You must choose an existing Category (or create a new one) for the Post using the Document and Settings Panel or the Post will default into the "Uncategorized" category.

TIP: Categories are hierarchical meaning you can have Parent and Child Category relationships. This helps group similar content together to allow your users to easily read and navigate your posts. Using the News example, you'd want to make a category called "News" and that category can have Child categories such as "Politics", "Environment" etc.

On the right side of the screen in the Document and Block Settings palette:

  1. Click on the Document heading at the top (if the Block Settings palette is active)
  2. Under the Categories heading:
  3. Choose an appropriate category(s)
  4. Or create a new category and optionally choose a parent for the new category.

The Category you choose will determine how or where the post is accessed on the front end of your website.

Optionally, choose Tags for the Post

Your website may not fully utilize the Tag Feature. Please contact us if you have any questions or the Tag area is not functioning as you'd like.

TIP:Tags are another way to group your posts together allowing your users to see more content about a subject. Using the News example, a post about Politics could be tagged "Federal", "Provincial" or be tagged with a public figures name.

On the right side of the screen in the Document and Block Settings palette:

  1. Click on the Document heading at the top (if the Block Settings palette is active)
  2. Under the Tags heading: Create or choose Tags for the Post.
  3. When you start typing in the Tag box, any Tags that have been previously created will show in a dropdown list. Choose a Tag that's been previously created or continue typing and hit enter to create a new Tag.

Optionally, choose a Featured Image for the Post

Your website may not fully utilize the Featured Image functionality. Please contact us if you have any questions or the Featured Image is not functioning as you'd like.

On the right side of the screen in the Document and Block Settings palette:

  1. Click on the Document heading at the top (if the Block Settings palette is active)
  2. Under the Featured Image heading: Optionally add a Featured Image to the Post. Your website may not fully utilize featured images.

Save your settings

  1. Click Save draft in the upper toolbar, to save your settings without publishing the post
  2. Click Launch Drag & Drop Editor
Launch editor

Now you can begin adding content to the Post

If a Template has been created for you or if you've saved a Template you can use that as the starting point for your new posts' content and simply replace what's there with your new content.

To ADD new content

VID Drag & Drop builder
  1. Click on the + icon in the upper right corner.
  2. Choose the type of content that you want to add: a Module, Row, Template or Saved. See below for a description of each.
launch drag & drop
The main Drag & Drop Editor menu
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