Blog Instructions – PBHS Support

Logging into your Blog
Creating a Blog Post
Comment Administration and Moderation
Post Category Administration

Logging into your Blog:

In the address bar at the top of your browser, enter: www.your‐domain.com/admin  (substitute ”your‐domain.com” with your actual domain name). (NOTE: if www.your-domain/admin doesn’t bring you to a login screen, try www.your-domain.com/blog/wp-admin or www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin instead.)

The login screen should load in your browser (if this did not work, make sure you entered the URL correctly.) Enter in the username (not the email address) and password provided by PBHS. If you know your username and email address but don’t remember your password, you can reset it by clicking the “Lost your password?” link and entering your email address. It is important to reset your password periodically for security reasons. If you do not know the required information, please call us at 888‐840‐0739.

Logging in will take you to the Administration Screen. The Administration Screen provides access to the control features of your site. Each Administration Screen is presented in sections. On the left side of the screen is the main navigation menu detailing each of the administrative functions you can perform.

Creating a Blog Post:

While you are logged in and looking at the main admin screen, (www.yourdomain.com/admin), choose the “BLOG ADMIN” button on the left menu. The Posts section in the left navigation is the area where you can create and manage your posts for your blog. Clicking that section will take you to the All Posts section. This displays a list of every post you have created.

At the top of the screen is an Add New button. Clicking this will open the post editor.

When the editor first loads your cursor will be ready for you to insert a title for the post. Go ahead and give this post a name.

Now let’s add some text to the Post Editing Area. This is done in the big open box right below the page title you just filled out. Go ahead and add some text in here. You may notice that the box resembles a text editor or a Word Document. Doing some experimentation with the buttons will quickly reveal their purpose or you may also place your mouse over the buttons and a little description will display the name of the buttons. (i.e. B = Bold, I – Italics, the chain icon is a link).

NOTE: For more information on what each button does you may reference the end of this manual for more details on what each button does and looks like.

Now that we have some body text in our main content, let’s add a photo. Right in‐ between the page title and the main body content is a button that says “Add Media”. Click the button to be taken to the media uploader. From here you can drag and drop files or “Select Files” (which takes you through your computer’s files to select).

Choose your image. A menu on the right will also give you several sizing, tagging and positioning options. When you are finished, click “Insert into post”.

Other Options for your blog:

Categories tell the site what type of post it is. Categories are used as the general topic the post can be classified in.

The last section we will cover in the posts section is Post Tags. You will find this at the bottom of your screen on the far right side. This section also works similar to Categories, although it’s meant for more specifics. So let’s say you are doing a post on Dental Implants, you may have a Category called “Dental Implants” but in the Post Tags you can define it more by saying “Crown Implants, Full Denture Implants,” etc, etc etc. The key here is to separate new tags with commas. These are not required but are good for your visitors and search engines.

OK! Now we have a post ready to go! You have three options:

Publish Now: If you’re happy with your post you can use the big blue Publish button in the top right. Now if you go to the home page of your blog you can see the new post displaying.
Schedule for Later: If you would like to publish it at a later time, choose “Edit” next to the Publish immediately button. Change the date and time to your desired publish time and click OK. It should now read “Schedule for:…..” Click the blue “Schedule” button.
Draft: If you aren’t ready to publish or schedule, a third option is to “Save Draft”. This simply saves your work for later but doesn’t publish the item.

Comment Administration and Moderation:

Comments are a feature of blogs, which allow readers to respond to Posts. Typically readers simply provide their own thoughts regarding the content of the post, but users may also provide links to other resources, generate discussion, or simply compliment the author for a well‐written post.

In the left navigation you will see a section called Comments. Clicking this will take us to the Moderation screen. Currently there are probably no comments, but comments will display here, any unread comments will be presented with a yellowish‐color. You can Approve, Reply, Edit, Mark as Spam or Trash the comment. (NOTE: keep an eye out for spam! All ways check the comments you have on your site and read through each of them for any kind of “spammy” content.)

Post Category Administration:

Categories are the general topic the post can be classified in. Generally, bloggers have 7‐10 categories for their content. Readers can browse specific categories to see all posts in the category.

There are two places we can create categories – 1. In the left navigation, clicking on the very edge of the Posts button will reveal the sub‐pages related to this section. In this list you will see a link called Categories. Clicking this will take us to the Category Admin Panel.

Entering this page will open the Category Admin Panel. You’ll see three fields on the left called Name, Slug, Parent, and Description. Let’s create a Category.

Name: Give your Category a name. (i.e. Dental Implants)
Slug: This section has a bit of a technical meaning. We can actually leave  this blank as the site will auto generate the Slug for us.
Parent: If you have other Categories that can act as the Parent Category  you may select it in this drop‐down menu. This will give some hierarchy to your Categories by relating this Category to another Category.
Description: Place in a more detailed Description for your Category.
Save the Category: Pressing the Add New Category button at the bottom  will save the Category fields you filled out and create a new Category in the list to the right. You may edit the Category at any time by clicking the edit button on the Category in the list.
To add a Post to a Category scroll up to Creating a Post for info on adding a Category to a Post.

The second location that we can add Categories is in the Post Editor screen.

If you are in the middle of creating a post, there is a box called Categories.

Inside this box is a link that says “+ Add New Category”. Clicking this button will expand the Category Name Field, and a drop down list to place this category as a subcategory.

Once you have everything set just click Add New Category button.