Posts

Welcome to getting started with cuTheme. module 2. This video is going to show you how to make posts.

To add a post, hover over posts and then Add New Post. You can start by adding a title. Then you can begin to create the content of your post. And this can be composed of just text, like a paragraph block. Or you can add any other type of content by using the block menu. So, I’m just going to go ahead and grab some cat ipsum and we’ll paste that right in here to create a blog post.

Now if you go over to post settings, click on this tab right here. You’re going to see you have a lot of similar options to pages with a few extra things. You can categorize your post by clicking the add new category link, “cutest animals.” And once you’ve typed in the name click the add new category button and you can see that this post is now categorized as cutest animals.

Using categories is going to become important later when we learn how to pull posts onto a page by topic. And we’ll go into this in a lot more detail in future tutorials.

Down here in the bottom right, you’ll notice that you can add a featured image. This is an image that accompanies your post whenever it’s listed. For example, check out the homepage of the website and you’ll see here these are news posts and this little thumbnail here is the featured image for that particular post.

To add a featured image, click on Set featured image and then you can either upload one from your computer or select something that’s already in your media gallery. And we have this cute little kitty cat right here so I’m going to select that.

The excerpt tab down here provides a text box where you can write one or two sentences that describe what the post is all about. This will be used to preview content where your posts are listed.

Again, like on the homepage, this would be the excerpt. Note that this is optional. If you don’t put anything in there, then WordPress will automatically create one for you using the first 55 words of your post.

Now you can go ahead and either click Save Draft or Publish to publish your post. And then once that is published, click View Post to see what it looks like on the front end.

To view all your posts, go to the dashboard of your website and then go to Posts > All Posts. And here you can see, these are all the news posts that you’ve published and they are listed chronologically with the most recent being at the top.