5. Adding Content

In This Chapter

Adding Posts 72

Adding Pages 77

Editing Posts and Pages 79

Setting Up and Using Categories 80

Using Tags 82

Internal Linking 84

Putting It All Together 85

The most important part of any Web site is the content. WordPress gives you the ability to easily update your site whenever you want, making the process of adding posts, pages, images, and media simple and painless.

In this chapter we’ll show you the difference between posts and pages; walk you through the process of adding a new post or editing an existing one using the visual editor or the HTML editor; and explain the vagaries of tags, categories, and internal linking.

Adding Posts

The processes of adding posts and adding pages are very similar. Both can ...

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