If the client wishes to have comments and tags shown on an embedded blog, and does not intend to post images in it, Glass Pen makes accounts with the WordPress blogging service. WordPress is open source and actively developed, and can be relied on for improvements and bug fixes. It does not permit embedding of posts with images. WordPress does provide accounts with space to upload images which can then be linked to, as in this post, but that is rather unwieldy. Clients who wish to show images in posts should either link to a WordPress blog, or take a Blogger account instead.
The WordPress interface is busier than Blogger because it allows you to control more things about your account. Posting is just as simple, though. First you need to sign in, which you can do at the right of the WordPress homepage. This will cause a gray menu bar to appear at the top of the page, and clicking on “My Dashboard” will take you to the blog controls.
You can also log in by clicking the “Log In” link at the bottom of your blog’s sidebar, which will take you to the dedicated log-in page.
Once you are at your blog administration pages you can click on the “Write” link at the top left of the page.
You can see that the cursor, in that screenshot, is over the “Write” link. Clicking on that takes you to the “Write Post” page.
You write whatever news or update you have into this form. When you’re done you hit the “Publish” button, which you can see the cursor over in the above screenshot. If you want to finish the post later, click on “Save” instead, and it will be saved as a “draft”. The section of your Dashboard page with the red header will have a link to all your drafts so you can easily find and finish them later.
You don’t need to do anything more, but there are more options if you want to organize your posts. On WordPress, you can use categories or tags or both. The boxes for adding these are below the “Post” box.
Categories are more organized, like a file cabinet. You can have categories inside categories, if you wish, like having folders for different years inside your tax returns folder. If you want a new category, you can add it right on the Write Post page, by clicking the “Add New Category” link above the category box.
Tags are more freeform. If I put a post in the category “Produce” I might give it tags like “new this season” and “heirloom seeds”.
Using categories and tags makes it easier for readers to search your blog for particular topics, and for you to find specific old posts.
