Create Your First Post

 

WordPress is a relatively easy software to use. The following short tutorial should save you some time in getting started. Thanks to Glenn Bartley for allowing us to use his outstanding images in this tutorial.

Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant (Myiornis ecaudatus) perched on a branch in Peru.

Step 1 – Log-in to the Platform

Log-in to the platform via “Useful Links” (see left).
Enter your user name and password.
This will bring you into the dashboard.

 

Step 2 – Upload Images to the Media Library

Click on “Media” / “Add New” / “Drop files here”.
Drag the images to the “drop files here” box.
Edit the “Title” and the “Caption” for each image.
Click “Update Media” to save the edits.

 

Step 3 – Create Your New Post

Click “+ New Post”.
Select “Visual” and paste your text into the editor.
Highlight the text and click “Remove Formatting”.
Arrange the text into paragraphs.
Do not put spaces between paragraphs.

 

Step 4 – Inserting Images

Place the cursor at the start of the first paragraph
Click “Set Featured Image” / Click “Media Library”
Select the image
Complete “Title” / Complete “Caption”
Select “Link URL – Attachment Post URL”
Select alignment “Right”
Select “Size – thumbnail (300×200)”
Click “Insert into Post” / Click “Save Draft”
Click “Preview Draft”

 

Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) perched on the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) feeding along the shoreline of Newfoundland, Canada.

To add additional images see our tutorial “Posting Images“. In case you have any suggestions, questions or need more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly.

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