Atlanta Props How to Add a New Post. 1. Log into the account at using your username and password

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1 1. Log into the account at using your username and password 2. This opens the Wordpress dashboard. Instructions for updating your website will be located here. 3. As an administrator, you will be able to add and update text and add/delete images for your entire website. 4. From the menu on the left side of the screen, select the Posts submenu to display all the posts for the website. The posts for your website is the content for work, oversized props, custom film props, event and display props, ad pitches, sets and stages, giant letters, and custom photo props. 1

2 With the Posts submenu open, you can see all of the posts for the entire website. 5. Click on Add New to create a new post. 2

3 6. This will open the Add New Post page. 7. Under Add New Post, you will see the Enter Title Here box. The cursor will be blinking inside the box. Type in the name of the post. Press return or enter and the permalink will automatically be generated for the post. 8. The Permalink is the url for the post. 9. Beneath the permalink you will see add media on the left. You can ignore this since you will not be adding the images here. 10. The editor provides a toolbar where you can bold text, etc. Generally, you will be typing in straight text so you can ignore the toolbar. 11. To enter or edit text in the text editor, simply place your cursor inside the white box beneath the toolbars and start typing, just as you would in any word processing program. When you use the return button on your keyboard, a new paragraph starts, just as it would in any other word 3

4 processing program. DO NOT COPY DIRECTLY FROM WORD. 12. After you have entered your text, press the save draft button under Publish located on the right side of your screen. 13. Next, you will select the category or categories where the post will appear. The Categories box is located directly under the Publish box on the right side of your screen. Uncategorized is the default. To select a category, click inside the box adjacent to the name of the category. 4

5 14. Scroll back to the top of your screen and click on the Save Draft button. 15. Within the Tags box, place your cursor in the empty box and start adding tags making sure you have the tags in upper case [for example, Extra Large Letters] and separate each with a comma. Once you have all your tags typed out, press the Add button. Or, you can add tags individually by typing in a word or phrase and then pressing the Add button. Once the tags have been added, you will see them within the Tags box. You can remove any tags by clicking on the x next to the name of the tag. If you want to use existing tags, press the choose from the most used tags. This will display those tags. To use any of these, click on the name and it will be added to the list of tags for the post. 5

6 16. Next, you will add the image for the post. Under Featured Image located directly under Categories, press the Set featured image link. 17. This will open the media library. You can select from the images already located in the library, or add a new image. Selecting an existing image from the Media Library 1. Click on the Media Library tab in the upper left corner. 6

7 2. Click inside the box containing the thumbnail image. A checkmark will appear in the upper right corner of the image. 3. On the right side of the screen you will see the Attachment Details box. This will not appear until you click on an image. 7

8 4. Make sure you have a Title and Alt Text for each image. Do not add a caption or description. 8

9 5. Next press the Set featured image button. Uploading a new image to the Media Library Click on the Upload Files tab. Click in the Select Files button in the center of your screen. 9

10 Browse your computer for the image you want to use. Make sure your image is no larger than 500 pixels wide by 500 pixels high. Click on the open button. This will upload the image to your media library. Follow directions 2-5 above to set this image as your featured image. 18. Scroll back to the top of the post and save your draft 19. Now we will add the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) information for the post. It is not absolutely necessary for you to do this, but it will help search engines like Yahoo and Bing who still use keywords and descriptions. 20. Open infocus SEO if it is not already open. This is located under the text box. This will display all fill-in-the-blank information you will complete to add SEO details to the post. 10

11 21. Add a title for the post. In order to get the name on the post multiple times, you can add something like the following: Name Of Post [the displays a trademark icon after the name ] 22. Next you will add a description. This can be anything you want but it is helpful to use some of the same text content you have for the post. For example, designed this large hand for use in an ad prop for King Kong. 23. Next you will add keywords. Limit this to only six and again repeat some of the same words used in the text content. These need to be separated by a comma. For example: ad prop, large hand, 24. Scroll back to the top of the post and save the draft. 25. Within the Publish box, click on the Preview button. This will allow you to preview the post before publishing it to the website. 26. If you are happy with your post, click on the Publish button. 27. Check your website to make sure the post looks okay. 11

12 28. If you have completed all your edits for the website, be sure to log out which is located under your username in the upper right corner. 12