Now that we've looked at how to edit pages in WordPress,

let's turn our attention to how to add and edit posts.

To add a new post to our WordPress site,

we can either come in to the post section under the admin area or from the front and

over site, we can use the new post option in the admin tool bar.

Let's come in under posts and

see that like we have a sample page, we also have a sample post.

Let's go ahead and trash this, go into the trash, and

then delete this post permanently.

Now we can come in and add our own new post called Why I Want

to Learn WordPress.

I'm going to go ahead and paste in my own little information here, but

I encourage you to write out some content,

a few sentences that explains your goals for learning about WordPress.

We could see that we have the same visual editor

here that we did when we were editing pages.

We have the same publish options.

However, we also have some new options such as choosing the format

which we'll look at a little bit later as well as adding categories and

tags and the feature image that we saw before.

We also have the screen options tab, which allows us to set things like the excerpt,

trap backs and custom fields, discussion, slug and author.

Since we won't be using any of these, I'll go ahead and

leave screen options as it is by default.

Go ahead and publish my post and click to view the post on the front end.

We could see that our post displays and

we have the option to come back in and edit it if we like.

One additional feature you have is to be able to change the slug of both posts and

pages.

If you come in to edit this area, you can change it to something shorter or

more related to the key words or readability that you're looking for.

For example I can change it to Learning WordPress.

Then when I visit my site, I can see that the URL for this has changed.

If you haven't tried adding your own post yet, go ahead and try that now.