LITA Blog

WordPress Blogging 101

Log into the LITA blog with the username and password you were given.

Writing a Post

Find Posts in the left-hand column and click Add New.

• Write a title for your post in the narrow blank box at the top. This should be snappy and informative — sort of like an email subject line.
• In the large blank box, write or paste the text of your post. If pasting, see Formatting Text below before proceeding.
• In the right-hand column, you can click Preview to see your post as it will appear on the blog.
• When finished, click Submit for Review.

• This will prompt to blog administrators to make your post live.
• If you need to stop before you’re finished, you can click Save Draft and return later.
• You can edit a draft by logging back in and going to Posts > Edit and looking under the Author column to find your contributions.

Formatting Text

• The default Visual tab view of your post text has a basic word-processing toolbar. Use it to make your typing bold or italic, add bullet points, numbering, or indentations.
• If pasting your content from a word processing program (e.g. MS Word) first click the “T” or “W” button in the toolbar, then paste. This step will strip out any extra information that could cause problems with your post’s formatting.

• The HTML tab view shows you the code. If you’re familiar with HTML, you can also do a bit more there, and clean up any code that looks funny from the Visual tab.

Creating Links

• Highlight the word(s) you wish to link from
• Click the small chain link button in the Visual tab

• Type or paste the URL for your link

• Change the Target to Open in a New Window
• Add a mouse-over title if you wish.
• To remove a link, highlight the text and click the broken chain link button

Adding Tags and Categories

• Be sure to choose a category for your post. You can check more than one, if applicable.
• Readers of the blog can use Categories to filter posts according to their interest
• Adding Tags allows you to add more specific keywords, but it is optional

Adding Images

• Above the toolbars, there is a Upload/Insert area
• Click on the first icon to add an image to your post

• Click Select Files and navigate to the image you want to upload
• You will have the option to add additional information, but you can also just leave the default settings
• At the bottom, click Insert into Post
• Once the image is in your post, you can adjust or delete it by clicking on the image.

Tips for Conference Bloggers

Are you a first time conference blogger? If so, check out Tips for Conference Bloggers from Bruno Giussani’s Lunch Over IP blog.