3: Adding posts to your blog

What is a post?

Posts are the content that you add regularly like diary entries or a journal.

  • Posts form the main homepage of your website.
  • They are listed in reverse chronological order by the date published. You can also have a featured post appearing ahead of your latest post.
  • You can add labels (tags) to these posts so they can be filtered.
  • Posts are best used for your stories.

Creating posts

  1. Sign in to Blogger
  2. On the left-hand side, select a blog
  3. In the top left, click New Post
  4. Enter a post title and content - 4: Composing your page or post
  5. In the top right, click Preview page, Save or Publish: Once a page is published, it can't be saved but only republished by selecting Publish.
NOTE: For "searchability", it's recommended that your post title is no more than 60 characters.

Editing posts

  1. Sign in to Blogger
  2. On the left-hand side, select a blog
  3. Click on the title of the post you want to edit
  4. Edit your post
  5. In the top right, click Preview page, Save or Publish

Deleting posts

  1. Sign in to Blogger
  2. On the left-hand side, select a blog
  3. Point to the post you want to delete
  4. Click Discard this post

The difference between publishing pages and posts

Your post is published as soon as you select that Publish button and is immediately visible to your readers. A further step is required for your page to be visible to your readers. You also need to add your page in the Configure Page List gadget.

Your activity

Please follow the instructions above to write your first post. It only needs to be short as this is a practice exercise. It can be edited or deleted at any time. Try including an image as well. Here are three suggestions but don't let these limit you:

  • My great-grandparent in 250 words
  • My ancestor's homeland in 250 words
  • My convict ancestors in 250 words

The aim of the activity is to practice what we cover in the first session. "My great-grandparent in 250 words" was the challenge for our "Blogging for DNA Enthusiasts" group. Here are a few examples-

Remember any questions or comments can be sent through the blog's contact form or posted on our Facebook group.

What's next?

References 

Blogger has excellent help HERE.
A quick YouTube video HERE.

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