1. From the main page of your blog, under the META category, click “Log In”

2. Enter your wordpress login name and password (case sensitive)

3. From your Dashboard, dlick “Posts - Add New” from the left side navigation.

4. Enter a post name, and post content.

5. Make sure to choose the categories your post belongs to, or choose “Add New Category” to create new categories for your post.

6. Choose “Preview” to see how your post will appear to make sure everything looks fine, or directly hit “Publish” to save and publish your new blog post.

Done!

Optional before you publish:

Categories - These are like navigational links for your blog to directly link you to posts of the same topic. For example, a blog about a tour to Texas with photos may have categories such as “Travel” “Photos” “Live Shows”

Tags - Entering tags for your posts is a great SEO tool. With tags, you can make mention of every single topic, name or any other words that directly relates to your blog. For example, this same blog about a tour to Texas may have tags that include very particular details about the blog like places visited, people of mention, etc such as “travel, roadtrip, flights, tour, photos, Texas, Dallas, El Paso, House of Blues, Bob Donalds, Evan Paul”

Trackbacks - If you copy a quote from another blog, enter the direct link to that blog here. For one, it gives them credit for originally writing the piece, and for two, a link back to your blog will appear to their readers, which gives you exposure.

Discussion - Check or uncheck if you would like to allow/disallow commenting or trackbacks on your post.