What are Posts?
Pages and posts enable you to add content to your website. However, depending on which one you use, you will have a different layout or feel on your website. Posts appear in reverse chronological order with the newest post on top. Pages tend to used for static content that does not need to be regularly updated.
Your posts are where you’ll publish your main content such as your reflections, what you’ve learned, and information you want to share with others. They are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order with the most recent post at the top of the page.
By default, your home page is a blog post page and this is where you’ll see your new posts published, however you can change this parameter in your settings.
How to write posts?
Post Ideas and examples
Pretty much anything you want to share you’ll publish as a post. Your reflections, what you’ve learnt, how-to’s, what is happening in class and cool information — there’s so much you can share!
Here some personal educator blog sites to use for inspiration:
- Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
- The Principal of Change
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Kathleen Morris Primary Tech
Posts on professional educator blogs are often about sharing thoughts, sharing professional practice, sharing resources, or sharing news.
Tip: Starting out your posts don’t have to be perfect — blogging is a work in progress!
Let’s start with the basics!
When building your blog, you will normally use the following functionalities regarding media:
- Publish a new post: How you write a post depends on if you are using the classic editor or the block editor. You can publish a post using different formats as different templates and options are available to you. You can also copy posts and templates to make your blog look more consistent.
- Sort your content and posts: using categories and tags is an effective way to sort the different kind of content you have displayed on your blog. Want to know the difference? Categories are like chapters of a book; they provide a general overview of the topics you blog about. Whereas tags are more like the index at the back of the book and explode the topic into a million bits.
- Edit a post: You can edit posts individually or bulk edit posts to make systemic changes to already published or drafted posts
- Delete a post: don’t want a post anymore? you can either hide it from the public and publish it later, or fully delete a post on your blog. The history of your posts’ revisions is available and accessibly even if you delete posts.
- Schedule a post: away for a few days and still want to post content on your blog? You can schedule posts to be released by a certain date and time in advance.
- RSS feed subscription (opens in a new tab): always wondered what it meant? The Really Simple Syndication is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the website to check for new updates.
Watch the video below for a brief overview of posts, their purpose and how you can make the best use of them.
Can’t view the video? Click here for the direct link: https://youtu.be/MSCZGSP3cfk (opens in a new tab).
Visit the Edublog website for a full overview of what you can do with users.
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