Posts are used to create ‘blogs posts’, you may wish to think of these as news, articles, journals, or diary entries where the newest post is presented at the top of the list.

You will need to add a category for each ‘blog’ you add to your site – more on this below. 

The post editor.

The option to create a post is available from the top menu and also the Main Menu of the Dashboard. The Posts ‘standard’ editor is the same as the one for pages, containing ‘Visual’ and ‘Text’ editor tabs.

You can add ‘Media‘ and Kaltura to your posts and may wish to enable the block editor for more page editing options.  

Featured image

To the right of the editor you will see the ‘Featured image’ window, this is used by many themes to present an image as the blog (category) link – when viewed in the browser. 

 

Categories – adding posts to a ‘blog’

You create ‘blogs’ on your site but adding your posts to categories. 

On the right-hand side of your post, you’ll see the Categories Window.

By default, all posts are added to a category called ‘Uncategorised’.
(I suggest you add new categories and do not select the Uncategorised’ category as this will be simpler to manage when building your site.)

In the example below I have added four new categories and selected the ‘Meetings’ category for this post.

To add these to the navigation I would add the categories to a ‘custom menu’. See page – Customising the Navigation.

The Posts area

From the Dashboard, you can select Posts from the main menu, this shows all of your posts, which categories they have been added to, and whether they have been published or are drafts.

A useful feature of this area is that you can roll over a post title and select ‘quick edit’, this allows you to quickly change the title, category and published status.