1. Log in to your blog by entering your Username, Password, and clicking Log In.
   
   NOTE: Your Log In page should be in the /wp-admin subdirectory off of your blog. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin. Once you have located your blog’s log in page, save it to your Favorites in your browser. You may also wish to check the Remember Me checkbox on your log in page so your Username and Password is automatically filled in for you in the future.
2. After you have logged in to your blog, click the Write tab or the Write a New Post button.
3. The Write Post screen displays. Enter a Title for your new blog post.
4. Enter and format the entry into the Post field. You can use the formatting icons to perform basic formatting functions, much like in a word processor.CREATING LINKS IN A POST  

5. To create links in your post:
   1. Highlight the text that you wish to turn into a link in the Post field. With the text highlighted, click the Link icon. The Insert/edit link window displays.
   2. Enter the address for the link in the Link URL field.
   3. Click the Target dropdown and select either Open Link in the Same Window or Open Link in a New Window.
   4. You may add a Title to the link in the Title field.
   5. Click the Insert button. The browser returns to the Write Post page with the newly created link now in the Post field.
6. To embed a YouTube video into a post:
   1. Click the HTML tab on the right side of the Post field. The Post field changes, displaying the HTML code of your post. Don’t worry about understanding what this code means. Simply move your cursor to the very bottom of all the code. It is from this place in the code you will be embedding the YouTube video code.
   2. Open another browser and locate the desired YouTube video. Be sure that the desired video you are wanting to embed starts to play correctly on YouTube. You will want to highlight the code from the Embed field of the YouTube video.
      NOTE: You can customize the Embed code to do such things as to disable displaying related videos at the end of a video clip by clicking the Customize icon to the right of the Embed field. Clicking Customize drops down additional selections.Once your customization of the code is complete, highlight the code in the Embed field and copy it to your clipboard (as detailed in the next step).
   3. With the Embed code highlighted, copy the code to your clipboard by either pressing Ctrl+C on your computer keyboard or right-clicking your mouse and selecting Copy.
   4. Return to your new blog post window and remember to place your cursor at the bottom of all of the code before proceeding.
   5. Paste the Embed code that you previously copied to your clipboard by either clicking Ctrl+V on your computer keyboard or right-clicking your mouse and clicking Paste. The Embed code now displays at the bottom of your Post.
7. Scroll down and enter keyword tags in the Tags field. Separate each tag with commas.
8. Once all Tags have been entered, click the Add button next to the Tags field. The screen refreshes, displaying the list of tags you’ve just entered for the new post.
9. Select the appropriate Category (or Categories) by checking their respective checkboxes.
10. Click the Publish button (located to the right) to publish the post to your blog.NOTE: Instead of publishing immediately, you also have the option of clicking Save to save a draft, which you can then publish to your blog at a later time.
11. Once you have published your post, a message appears stating that your post has been saved. From there you can click View post to preview your post or Edit post to make edits to your post. (Refer to the next section on how to edit a post). If you click View post, your blog displays with your newly published post displaying at the top.

Editing a Post

Once a post has been published, it can be edited at a later time by a blog administrator. To edit a blog post:

1. Once you are logged into your blog, click the Manage tab at the top of the screen. The Manage Posts screen displays. The Manage Posts screen displays your blog posts in chronological order. Notice the new blog post we just created is listed at the top of the screen. To make an edit to this post, click its Title.
2. Clicking a Title displays the selected blog post in the Write Post screen.
3. It is easier to make edits to your Post by clicking the Visual tab so that it displays like a Word Processor instead of dealing with the HTML code.
4. You may make changes to the Title, Post, add additional Tags, delete Tags (by clicking the X to the left of the desired tags to delete), change Category selections, etc.
5. Once all changes to the blog post have been made, click Save. The updates will be published live to your blog.

Deleting a Post

To delete a blog post:

1. Click the Manage tab to view the Manage Posts screen.
2. Click the checkbox to the left of the desired post to delete.
3. Click the Delete button. The Manage Posts screen refreshes, with the selected post now deleted from the list and deleted from your blog.