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Blogging for the course Building Blocks 2
❯ Some basic guidelines
http://businessenglish.ruhosting.nl

Register as author
http://businessenglish.ruhosting.nl
❯ Choose a user name and fill in your e-mail address
 user name can be e.g. johnsmith,
while the name appears on the site as John Smith
 fill in your e-mail address
 click on [Register]
❯ After registering, you can
 access the dashboard and editor and write texts
 the address for access to the dashboard and editor is:
http://businessenglish.ruhosting.nl/wp-admin/
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Check how your name appears on the site
❯ Go to 'your profile'
 you cannot change your username
 check first and last name
 check 'display publicly as'

Difference between 'posts' and 'pages'
❯ In this course you write posts, not pages
❯ Posts:
 have a date
 are assigned to categories
 can appear in different places

Editor – menu bar
❯ Menu bar
if the second row is not visible, click on the right button in the upper row

Use the right categories!
❯ Before publishing your blogpost, assign
two categories to your post
 the main category (your group):
group 1 ... / group 2 ... / group 3... or group C&O ...
 within your group, assign as category the assignment:
Blog 1 ..., Blog 2 ..., Blog 3 ..., Blog 4 ...
❯ For every post, it is important to mark the
correct two categories, to make your post visible
on the right place(s).
See example
Example: a student in the C&O group
publishes his/her second blog

Making the excerpt field visible
❯ Excerpt box
 some screen options on the Post edit / Admin Panel, the editor, are hidden by default.
The Excerpt field might be hidden by default if it has not been used before.
 to make it visible, click in the upper right corner on 'Screen Options':
 under Boxes, mark Excerpt
 If the Exerpt box is at the end of all the options and boxes, you can move it upward, dragging it for
example just beneath the main edit box of the post.

Excerpt (= very brief summary)
1. Excerpt box left empty
❯ Why you should use the Excerpt box
 In lists of posts, a brief summary may appear beneath the title;
 if there is no excerpt, the system automatically uses the beginning of your tekst as the excerpt;
that first part of your tekst often is not a good 'teaser' for a reader to continue reading.
Example: Excerpt box left empty:
 In post lists, instead of a good excerpt, the first part of your text is used as excerpt:

Excerpt (= very brief summary)
2. Excerpt box used to describe what is in the blog post
 Excerpt box with tekst
 Excerpt under the title in a post list

Featured image, used in post lists
❯ The 'featured image' is used in post lists;
its size is automatically adapted to the layout of the post list
Featured image
attached to
two blogposts,
in post list
post list on an
archive page

Featured image, also in your blogpost (or not)
❯ By default, the featured image also appears
at the top in the blog post itself
❯ You can prevent is from appearing
in the blog post itself by marking
(somewhere in the options list)
❯ The featured image remains active in the post lists;
by marking this check box, it only does not appear
above your text in the blog post

Set Featured image
❯ In the right sidebar in the editor, you find the Featured Image option
 click on 'Set featured image' to upload an image for your blogpost;
 upload an image (or take one from the Media Library);
 click on 'Set featured image' (bottom right)

An image in a blog post
1. selecting an image
❯ Click on Add Media
❯ Choose from Media Library, or upload an image file
❯ At bottom right: 'Insert into post'
❯ Don't worry about settings and options,
see next slide

An image in a blog post
2. editing size and alignment
❯ Editing an image, inserted in a blog post
❯ Options
 alignment (left – center – right)
 edit size (click on pencil)
 'Custom size': fill in width or height (automatically scaled)

Copy from Word file?
❯ You can copy text from Word, but the safest way to do that
is clicking on this button:
(after clicking it, it stays activated until you save your blog post – as draft or published –,
or until you click on it again.
❯ You 'paste as plain text' what you copied from Word,
without any formatting, and without all hidden code that you don't want to import
into this editor

Preview, save a draft version, publish
❯ Even before saving your post as draft,
you can preview (with the latest changes in) it.
❯ If you want to save what you have so far,
click on Save Draft.
❯ If you have published your post, but you still want to make changes,
 make the changes, and press 'Update',

Publish (scheduled)
❯ If you have published your post, but you still want
to make more changes,
 edit the status and make it 'Draft' again,
 click on Ok, and on Update
❯ Publish later:
 fill in date and time
 click on 'Ok'
 and on 'Update'

Layout: headings
❯ When you use a heading, instead of making text bold and/or italic,
use one of the heading types under 'Paragraph'
 If you would like to use two levels of heading,
you could use e.g. heading 2 and heading 3 (as subheading), or
heading 3, and heading 4 (as subheading).
 the levels 'Heading 5' and 'Heading 6' are maybe too small

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