Audience

Recently, inspyre had the opportunity to introduce the concept of a blog to one of our clients. After everyone’s excitement about the ability to publish and categorize information at any time, we realized it was time to teach our client how blogging is done.

We’re a big fan of Wordpress and believe they describe themselves better than we can:

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

What follows is a tutorial written from a Wordpress user’s perspective covering the basic tasks of writing a blog post, publishing it, creating categories, moderating comments, and so forth. From the developer’s perspective, it’s important to note that we set up our clients as “editor’s”, a feature of Wordpress that tailors the actions available to a user based on her role.

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