If you haven’t already known the importance of continuously creating blog posts in your site, then you are in for a surprise! Blogs are some of the most underrated features of a site that you can utilize. They improve your site’s SEO that will then help you rank in searches. This can get you new eyeballs leading to purchases.

Strong blogs are well researched, easy to understand and use appropriate photos. We can give you more tips, but that’s for another time ☺

WordPress can be intimidating the first time you look at it, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy to make things work. We are here to guide you on how you can create blog posts on your site ☺

STEP 1: Add New Post

After logging into WordPress, you will land on your dashboard, which looks like this. Hover on Posts on the left menu and click Add New.

STEP 2: Adding Title and Writing Content

You can add your title in the first bar and you may start writing your content in the succeeding space.

STEP 3: Adding Photos to your Blog

Blogs are not complete without enticing photos! What you can do is click Add Media.

You can choose to upload your own photos by clicking the Upload Files tab, then Select Files. Keep in mind that the limit for each photo is only at 64 MB.

STEP 4: Adding Featured Image

Featured Images are the ones that appear on your Blog List as more or less the intro on what your blog is about (aside from the title)

Just scroll down on the page and look for Set Featured Image on the right.

STEP 5: Save Draft, Preview and Publish

Save Draft: If you don’t want to publish your blog yet or you’ll get back to it another time, just click Save Draft.

Preview: If you want to see how your blog will look, just click the Preview button and a new window will open.

Publish: When you’re ready for the blog to be seen by the world, just click Publish ☺

And that’s it! We hope that this guide makes it easier for you to post your blogs. You may also look at our other guides here to make your experience easier!

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Excited to post your new blog? We know the feeling 🙂 But something is not right. The blog photos are in there, your post is SEO friendly and your discussion is well-researched. So, what’s missing?

Yes, that big black space underneath the title that is sometimes too difficult to find. We got you. Here’s our step-by-step guide on how to add banner in your WordPress blog. Photos and screenshots are included too, you may thank us later 🙂

STEP 1: Set your featured image

This will be the image that WordPress will use as a preview photo on this specific blog. And ideally, this is also the photo that you should use as your banner to create consistency in your site.

STEP 2: Look for Post Options

Scroll down in the WordPress window and look for Post Options. It may be expanded or minimized like how it looks here.

STEP 3: Click Title / Description

Once the the Post Options area expands, there will be a navigation area on the left side of the screen that will appear. Look for the Title / Description tab.

STEP 4: Click Featured Image

Scroll down and look for Background. Since we already have a Featured Image, we can now choose this option as our banner

STEP 5: Preview

Always preview your work before publishing. You may also adjust the overlay to make sure that your title can be easily read. In this case, I adjusted the overlay to about 30%, but let’s save that topic for the next vlog 🙂

Your blog should look like this after. Once you’re ok with everything, just click publish.

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Woocommerce

In some cases, you may need to update woocommerce product category banners. Please follow the instructions below:

STEP 1: Click on Products -> Categories

Step 2: On the categories page, mouse hover on the category on which you want to update/add the banner image or video. Click on Edit

Step 3: To have an image as a banner on the product category, Upload an image by clicking the upload/add image button next to “Thumbnail” option.
To upload a video remove the image from the thumbnail in case you have already uploaded an image earlier, and then click on “Add video” button under banner_video option

Step 4: Click on update button. That’s it. Your product category should have a banner image/video now visible on the website.

We know. This is too much of a hassle to do every single time you’ll be posting. Add the fact that you have to type in every single word in your blog and add relatively interesting photos as well makes this task annoying.

Let us do it for you. We do not only build beautiful websites, but also manage them perfectly! Let’s talk, tell us all your problems, and we’ll solve it for you 🙂

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