WordPress is another one of those platforms that's super easy to use and
builds a beautiful blog for you. So, today I'm going to walk you through with my
screen sharing right with you exactly how to get that started. So stay tuned.
Okay, you guys are going to love WordPress. It is a great platform for blogs and in
fact, it has a lot of readership on it. There are a lot of people that just
browse WordPress, reading blogs. So you take minimal work to get your post out
there and it gets lots of traction right away especially for sharing on social
media. But I'm going to take you right to my computer so you can see my screen and
we can publish a post together and I can walk you through step by step that
process. How it's done? It's super simple. It's super easy. Let's
get started. So go ahead and open up another window on your browser and just
go to www.wordpress.com. Now, if you're already logged in, it'll show you this
site right here. If you're not logged in, go ahead and do that, you can create
account and pause the video and do that if you need to. But it's very, very simple.
I started my WordPress site actually only on my phone and I use the website
only when I'm on my computer. So it can be done both on your mobile device and
your computer. But it's much easier to do on the desktop and you're just getting
started and once you've got it rolling, you can then just make posts from your
phone whenever you've got it out in handy. Okay, so I'm going to go on the top
left corner here. I'm going to click my site and then it's going to show me all of my
stats. You can see, you know I actually just started this blog on May 1st. On May
1st, I had 160 views and 55 visitors. That's
pretty cool for the first day off, right? And then you can see a couple days later,
I haven't made any new posts and then you know what, boom! I made another post.
on May 7th. It had 228 views and 171 visitors. So, you know it really helps to
put out some daily content on there. Let's get started with how to actually
create a post. So you've got your site here, you can view your site, you can view
your stats, you can view your plan. But we need to make a blog post. So we're going to
go right down here to blog post and click "add". Alright, then it's going to take
you right to this page right here. If it's your first time using it online,
it's going to pop up with all these helpful hints and all these options to upgrade.
You don't need to do that if you don't want to. Say got it thanks. Okay, so this
blog post, you're just going to put a great title on it, something catchy, something
you know that's going to entice your readers to read more. You can put
something like, "top things you need to know when you're
starting your own business or what I learned after I went ice-skating and
broke my face" Or something like that. Whatever the title is that you
want to do. So this is where the amazing title goes. Okay, after that
you're going to go right into your text. You can just press tab down or you can use
your cursor whatever you want to do. And then you're just going to start putting
this kind of text in your blog, okay? Start writing content. If you want to you
know, put a page break in there, you can click on this right here and this is
where you read more tag it's going show up. You can type more up here if you want
and then go ahead and go beneath it. So that read more tag, that everything above
that it's what's going to show before people see the rest of your blog. So, then
you can go ahead and create more blog posts if you want. If you want to create
a link and maybe link to another person's blog or another post or your
affiliate link with Amazon or anything like that, you can go ahead and click
that link button and just copy and paste the url. Now, what I love about WordPress
is that it can link to existing content super easily. So, the url, you can
either click here to create new link to existing content or you can copy and
paste url and put that in there. Okay, so then I'm going to go ahead and add that
link. Once I did that, it would go ahead and underline that for me. I'll show you
what that looks like here. So, if I were to link it to that and say, "add link" then
that's what that would look like, okay? So, I'm just going to keep typing here and if I
let's say, if I want to make a list, I can do this. One, first thing you need to know
is this, second thing you need to know is this. Third thing you need to know is this. It's just
like Microsoft Word, you guys, it's super easy. Okay, I'm done with that list. Maybe
I need to make a blockquote, okay? It's as a text box. This is a text
box, okay? That's going to stay stationary if you
want to do a little call-out box for that, alright?
Then I can go down here. Type some more if I want. Maybe I want to move that text
box, right? So, I'm just going to delete this text box. It's always a good idea to,
let's say you want it in here. Put it in right there. That way you can edit that
feature right where it's at, okay? So I need to get rid of this text box. Let's
go ahead and delete that. And let's go ahead and delete that. And then I can
keep going. There's lots of different options here. If you want to put in some
advanced modules you can do that. That way you can add...copy and paste text,
text, color, justify. Put a page break line right there if you want. You can have
some special characters. Indent you know. And then let's say if you want to put a
picture in there, we need to add something in. So, let's click "add content".
Media. Media from Google, free photo library, a contact form, a payment button.
So that all of these things in this blog post, if you're selling an item, you could
put a payment button in there. If you're selling photo library, you could put that
in there. If you're putting media from Google. That means you don't have to
download all of your media from Google to your computer first. You can just
directly pull it in. Once that's done, preview before you publish. Every time no
matter what, preview before you publish. Now, if I click publish, I'm not going to get
published right yet, because this obviously isn't something I might put on
my blog. But I can publish immediately or I can schedule this post which I often
do. But other than that, I'm going to say, "I'm done with this post". I'm going to
save it as a draft, be done with that and close. Now, it's automatically saved in my
blog post drafts, okay? And to get to that, what I'm going to do is go to my blog posts
and check it out. It's right there. If I have to just click on draft, it's right
there. I can go back and edit it, change it, do whatever I need to do. So, getting
your blog post up on WordPress is super fun, it's super easy, you can do it with
your free version. All you need to do is interface your current Google photo
drives and it'll post everything right there. For you schedule,
if you need to or just push it out every day, you can take the time if you wanted
to. Create a lot of blog posts and say, "WordPress is going to publish them
for me", according down to the minute. Super easy
to do. Again, get your blogs out there. I want to see them. Let's get the
conversation going.