Starting your own blog or website in Kenya using WordPress? One of the first steps is learning how to create and publish your first post. Whether you're launching a personal blog, a business site, or an affiliate platform, WordPress makes it simple to share your content online. And with Kenya’s growing digital audience, publishing your first post is a great way to connect with readers, customers, or clients.
In this beginner-friendly guide, we’ll walk you through each step of creating your first WordPress blog post—from writing your title and adding images to setting categories and hitting publish.
Step 1
Login to Your WordPress Dashboard and Navigate to Posts > Add New.
It will then take you to the post page, where you can create your post.
To add a new post you will need to first Add the post title, in the area marked as "Add Title" you need to enter the title you want your post to have.
and in the text area below that is where your post content needs to be typed.
To add a new heading or sub heading to your post just click on the Plus icon > then Heading
So also if you wish to add a list of items just click on the Plus Icon > then List do same for other things like images paragraph and the rest.
Post Categories.
Post categories are a great way of organizing your posts based on similarities for example you can have category for blogging, marketing and the rest.
The blogging category should include all posts related to blogging so also the marketing category.
To add a new category you can click on the Setting Icon > Post > Categories > Add New Category.
Where you see New category name, just add the name of the category you would like to create then click Add New Category, and it will be added.
Add Post Tags
A tag is simply a label or a keyword you assign to your post
To add a new post tag Navigate to Post > Tags > Add New Tag
Then add all your tags and separate them with a coma.
How To add Featured Image.
Featured image of a post is an image that displace alongside the link of the post or page when shared on social media.
To add a featured image to your post Navigate to Settings > Post > Featured Image> Add New.
You can then select an image from your library or choose to upload a new one from your phone or computer.
Publish the post.
Once you are done with everything and creating your post content you can then click publish in other for your post to be live.
You are all done and your post should now be live and available to the general public.
