There are various ways to communicate here. The simplest way is just to add a comment to someone else’s post. To start a new post, you have to be logged in.
You will then see something that looks like this
What you see when you log in.
Then to write a post with a proper title click where it says ‘Blog Post’
and the screen will change – off you go !
What you see when you are 'logged in'
In order to add photos, links, videos, music whatever you have to write a post from the dashboard, which you approach via logging in and then going to site admin from the main ‘front page’ of the blog. There is a ‘bug’ with this layout which does not allow you to post photos from the front page, even though it looks as if you should be able to do it. I have checked with WordPress and that is what they have said. To get to the dashboard, it will look a bit different for different people you need to look below your tool bar in your browser and there should be some other drop down menus floating around. It looks like this on mine.
What I see when I want to get to the dashboard...
Alternatively……
You can also get an email address to use to post via email. This might be easier if you are posting from a phone or something like that. To get the email address you have to login and go to Settings. Then look in Writing and follow the instructions at the bottom of that page to get your own personal email address to send posts to the blog.
Hope this helps, Joanna
PS If you want to have a little picture thingy instead of a random pattern, then you need to get a ‘gravatar’, who thinks these names up? Here’s the site http://en.gravatar.com/
Allison are discussing. 
Allison 10:07 pm on August 23, 2010 Permalink |
Hi WEbmistress, how come my posts don’t come up when I click on my little picture?!
chocveg 10:08 pm on August 23, 2010 Permalink |
or do I need to put in my name as chocveg? let’s see
Joanna @ Zeb Bakes 10:10 pm on August 23, 2010 Permalink |
Hi Allison, I’ve edited this
What do you want to do – have you written a post? and it didn’t work? The little pic is just a pic, not a link to anything….. No I tell a lie. Shum webmistresss, already exposed as a fraud… wait till you see my baking at the weekend 🙂 OK this is how it works. You can either comment on someone else’s post, in which case your comment appears below their post. Or you can write your own post. To do this, you have to login where it says login in the sidebar. You need your password for this. Once you have logged in you can start a new post. You can write the post on the ‘front page’ of the blog or you can go into the area of the blog called the ‘dashboard’ which you get to by clicking on the menus at the top above where it says “hello what are you baking’.
If you want to include photos then you have to either
a) get an email address by going to the my blogs page and following the links there, that’s a special email address just to post to this blog
or
b) write the post in the dashboard. There are WordPress help pages that you can access from the Dashboard which will tell you how to do these things too.
Joanna @ Zeb Bakes 10:14 pm on August 23, 2010 Permalink |
I’ve just tweaked the format so you can see where you last commented is that what you mean? About the best I can do in this ‘theme’. I can’t do it for the recent posts bit, but I’ve made it so it shows the last 15 posts written. Jo. See you all tomorrow!