And you are greeted by a New Page, which you can now fill up.

From this
new screen, you can create a new page and assign page attributes.

If you either need to create a template that you’re likely to use often or need
to recreate a section of your site for a specific purpose, creating a page is the
way to go.

Comments (Access from WordPress menu)

Websites need readers to make them successful. Comments are a very

powerful means to establish a great debate on your site and this only further
adds value to your site. Hardly, one percent of the traffic that visits your site
will ever comment. And that is assuming that the content is great to begin
with. Driving interaction with passive readers on your site is difficult and
takes time and effort.

A great post with a pre-existing comment history helps your site receive more
comments. Aigars wrote an awesome post on Colorlib a while back, yet till
this day it still keeps receiving comments and continues to be a great source
of traffic.

And remember, WordPress allows you to link your site when you comment
on another person’s blog. And this may send visitors your way, if you play
your cards right and make genuine attempts to offer something constructive.
For this same reason, many people will leave their comments on your blog as
well.

If I feel your content is great and a particular post that you’ve written is
awesome, then I’ll almost jump at the chance to leave my comment first and
best anyone else to first comment. Because I know eventually it will lead a
few visitors back to my site.

Comments are a great way to build an awesome readership and a loyal

following for your site.

Adding Content

Content is king may be a cliched line. But it is true now more so than ever
before. There are many more websites now than there ever were before. You
name a niche, any niche and it is bound to be saturated to the hilt with
websites producing content about said niche. WordPress is a very profitable
niche. Why? 50% of websites use it and many of them are new to WP.
WordPress newbies and even intermediate level users require a few resources
to help them get started up and make changes to their WordPress sites, not
too dissimilar to the content on Colorlib 😉 But a website like Colorlib works
well and generates revenue only when we offer value to our readers.

We publish a great number of articles on premium WordPress themes and

should you choose to buy one of them after clicking on our links we receive a
small commission on your purchase. But truth be told, our most popular and
widely read articles aren’t the ones that describe premium WordPress themes
or plugins, rather they are WordPress tutorials and posts dedicated to free
themes, plugins and other WordPress related articles. Because it is only when
we offer value to readers that our site grows.

So based on your site’s niche and your expertise, you need to produce
content that genuinely offers value to would be readers. If you intend to
create your site purely for monetary purposes, it will not be successful in the
long run. No wait a minute, it may still be profitable but certainly not as
successful as it could have been had you tried to genuinely help your
audiences. So focus on good content.

Pick your niche and offer great value to your readers. And watch your traffic
grow steadily and if you are lucky, perhaps even go through the roof!

So how do you publish your content on WordPress? What are the formats
available to you apart from just plain ol’ text?

Posts (Posts > Add New)

The beating heart of your site or most sites anyway. At the end of this tutorial
when all’s said and done, you’ll be here to populate your site with posts.
WordPress has a very easy to use posting mechanism and this one of the
reasons, it is so popular.
You have two ways in which you can write your posts: one is the visual
editor and the other is HTML editor. You can opt to use the visual editor to
begin with, but you should know the HTML editor (referred to as text editor)
is a very powerful tool to help you create the right formatting for your posts.
The sooner you are comfortable with the text editor, the better of you will be.
You may notice I am using the visual editor and truth be told, once I’ve
added all the necessary formatting I prefer the visual editor.

The visual editor is very much similar to most text editors and permits you to
add bold / italic effects to your text, change its font, add bulleted lists and
numbered lists, align content differently and add hyperlinks. There is also a
distraction free writing mode which gives you a fullscreen version of the
editor.

Categories (Posts > Categories)

Categories are a means to divide your content. Categories are important when
your site publishes content on a number of issues. You can add categories
from your Post editor or you can access it under Posts > Categories.

Now you can name the category to create one and then you can add a slug
which is basically a URL add on of sorts for all your site’s posts on that
specific category. For example, if I know that Colorlib produces a lot of
theme collection content, I can Google search “Colorlib + any
keyword/category” and the first search result link is –
https://colorlib.com/wp/category/collections/ . With this I can view only the
posts that have been published under the category, “Collections”.

So it is a very effective way to divide your site’s content and make finding
stuff on your site much easier for a visitor.

Tags (Posts > Tags)

Tags are very similar to categories, except each post generally has its own set
of tags. Tags are a tad more specific than categories but that apart they are the
same and they aid in helping visitors find your content more easily.

Media (Media >Add New)

Media as in photos and videos are important to normal websites. They are
even more so for media heavy websites. Adding media is easy with
WordPress. You can either add media from Posts or you can add media
directly to the media library.

You can add the image title, a caption, description to the image. But it is also
important you also add the alt text which helps search engines identify your
image. It is a small step in ensuring good search engine optimization.

There a lot of effects and stuff you can do to your imagery like make it pop
up or use a lightbox with WordPress plugins. But that’s for another day.
Your Profile

Setting up your WordPress profile. This is rather easy to deal with. You can
edit your profile from the “Edit Your Profile” on your WordPress admin
screen on the top right hand corner. You can describe yourself and add the
necessary social media links as well.

And to add a profile picture for your WordPress ID, you’ll need to get a
Gravatar account. You’ll need an account from WordPress.com with which
you can login to your site’s admin panel.

Just Start!

We have far too many inhibitions, starting stuff is one of them. It opens the
door to failure.

Creating the website and generating revenue is no joke. It is hard work,

sometimes seemingly unrewarding work.

Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be launching our “Getting Started
With WordPress” post series to help you out.

And apart from that if you need anything else, do let us know in the
comments below! Aigars and I will always be happy to help you out 😉
Thank you for visiting Colorlib and reading this article! We highly appreciate
it! Now you might want to learn how to make a website using our
free WordPress themes.