In order to post on this website you’ll need a user account (login ID).
Once you have a login ID:

• Go to the top right corner of any page of the site, click ‘login’, and you will be taken to the login interface.
  

  Note: If you are already logged in, instead of a login link at the top right you will have a link to Post - this will take you directly to the “write a post” panel of the dashboard and you can skip to the next step.

  Fill in your username and password.
  You will be forwarded to the WordPress dashboard, where you can click on “Write a Post”. This will bring you to the post editor.

• Write or paste in your article. If you are copying and pasting from another program make sure you are pasting in only plain text (see below).
• Although you’ll have the option to upload an image with your post, instead send your images via email to the Gallery (see photo instructions). Once an image is in the Gallery, you may include it in your post (see below).
• When you’re satisfied with your message, click ‘Save’. It will remain a draft until it is reviewed and published by an Editor.
  If you are not ready to have your post published, to the right of the text editing area look for ‘Post Status’. If the options for Post Stutus are not shown, click on the plus sign to expand this menu. Toggle the selection to ‘Private’. When you are ready to have your post reviewed by an editor, toggle it back to ‘Draft’.

WordPress has a user-friendly text editor which can help you with using lists, links, images and basic formatting in your posts. You may prefer to write in your text editor of choice first, then copy and paste it in as plain text (without formatting) and add your images, links, and formatting in the editor.

To paste as plain text you have 3 options. You can write in a plain text editor such as Notepad. You can write in any application, but save it as plain text or open it with a plain text editor like Notepad before you copy. Or you can use a ‘paste as plain text’ option rather than the default paste if it is available (look for a ‘paste as..’ command in your menu options).

To remove or avoid the problems of hidden formatting, in your account profile (admin panel > Profile or click on your linked name in the upper right corner), scroll down to ‘Personal Options’ near the bottom and uncheck ‘Use the visual rich text editor when writing.’ For more information, see Authoring Blogs with Microsoft Word is Asking for Trouble.

Writing for the Web

• Don’t put any personal information in your comments or posts (because of privacy issues).
• Don’t put email addresses in your comments and posts (because of spam).
• Use labels and subtitles, short paragraphs, and lists to organize your content into easy to read chunks.

Writing for this website

• To share information about yourself, update your user profile.
• If you’d like a URL (website address) included in your comments or posts, include a description and link to the specifically relevant page rather than the homw page.
• To link to a page within this site, copy the URL from the page you want. In the text editor, highlight the text you want to become a link and click on the link icon. Fill in the URL and a title in the pop-up form. You can leave off the first part of the URL, http://westcoastknitters.org, to link within the site – so a link to the Gallery could be simply /gallery/ for the URL – but if you use the whole address that will work to. Links to other sites must have the full address. The title should describe the link.
• Follow our copyright and privacy polices. This includes abbreviating last names to an initial, leaving out phone numbers or email addresses, and respecting copyrights.
• To make a copyright symbol (©) appear in your post, type ©

Placing a Gallery photo in your post

• Make sure that in the text area the cursor is in the place you want to place the image - at the very beginning of your post is usually a good spot.
• Below the write area there is a section with 2 or more tabs, with ‘upload‘ selected by default; select photos.
• [Optional] To narrow down the selection, type a tag (keyword) into the Tags: textbox and press Enter on your keyboard or click on the refresh button.
  
  Leave the My Photos radio button selected and ignore the uploadbutton.
• Choose an image and click on it. You will get a list of size options. Click on the size of your choice and the image will be inserted for you.
• Close the options box.

See ‘preparing & submitting a photo‘ for information on placing images in the gallery. Remember to use tags when you submit your photo, it will help you find the right one when you want add it to a post. For instance, Jane Dough might tag all of her photos with janed.

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