In this tutorial we're going to show you how to
start a blog on your business website. We'll teach you exactly
how to add a blog to your website so that it will come up
in your top menu bar right here
so that when a visitor clicks on the blog section,
they'll be taken to all your articles, and they'll be able to
click and view full article and it's a great way to keep in touch
with your customers.
So what is a blog? Like I said, use it to post interesting content or articles
that relate to
the content or a topic of your business. Or you can make a business blog
to update your customers about new products or services.
And it's been shown that businesses that start a blog
tend to attract more customers, so it's definitely worthwhile.
If you haven't got an existing website
and you want to know how to make a blog from scratch, we will be putting
a tutorial out there in the near future, however this video is specifically
for you guys that already have a WordPress website
for your business and you want to add a blog section to it.
So let's begin.
The first thing you need to do is go into your WordPress dashboard
so your website.com/wp-admin
Enter your username/password,
and login. Go into Settings,
and Permalinks. Currently the structure of our URLs
is the domainname.com/Postname
which is whatever your post is called. So to give you
an example, for the
physiotherapy page this is the URL:
JimsPhysio.com/physiotherapy. Now we want to change that
for the blog section, it won't affect the rest of your pages which
you've been adding
but it will affect the posts which we'll use
to add blog posts. So change this
to exactly what I have on the screen here.
If that's hard to follow
I'll put that up on our website as well so you can just copy and paste that
into the custom structure section right here.
Hit save changes. What we going to do now is
add a blog category so what will happen when we add blog post is
it will be our URL.com/blog/blogtitle
So therefore it will be very structured.
To add a new blog category
go into Posts, Categories
name - Blog
Slug - Blog
Slug is just the URL version that will appear the
in the extension so we can leave that as blog
None for parent and you can enter description if you want
we'll leave it blank. and then hit New Category
I'd already done that previously so
after you hit Add New Category the blog category will be added right here.
The next thing you can do is
start adding blog posts and to give you an example,
I'm going to add a couple dummy posts. So click Add New
now let's go ahead and enter some
dummy blog posts to see how it will appear on your website
say 10 quick tips to Optimize your Site
I'm just going to look for some
dummy data. Now after you've entered your blog posts, whatever it may be
make sure you select the category here as Blog
and then click Publish. You'll notice that when you view post
your URL extension will be
yourwebsite.com/blog/postname
Okay so all add a couple more.
So I've added 3 blog posts, to view these blog posts
we can go to website.com/blog
and that is exactly what your blog section is going to look
like on your website.
You'll see every post is listed and
users will be able to scroll down and
select any individual blog they want to view in full.
but the only problem now is that users cannot find section so what we
going to do
is put a blog link in the top menu
just here somewhere to do that go back into dashboard
and go into Appearance
Menus and
in custom links enter your
blog extension which is your website.com/blog
You can label that
blog or anything else you want. Add to Menu
Now drag and drop that wherever you want that to appear so
we'll put it just and before contact us, and Save Menu.
When I refresh our site
you'll notice the blog section appears right here,
so when I use a lands on the homepage or
wherever they are on your site they can easily scroll through your site
and go to your blog and therefore view any of the posts you make.
There you go it's as easy as that to make your own blog
or to add your own blog to an existing website I should say.
If you want to make a blog from scratch
and you haven't got an existing website, we're going to put a video out
in the near future for you to be able to do that.
We hope this video has been helpful, and please like
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