Updating a post in WordPress

Updating a post in WordPress

Had a few people ask about this so thought I’d make a tutorial. “Updating a post in WordPress”. Just in case you forget, here’s something to refer back to:
1. go to your posts list (posts – click on All Posts):
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2. Click on ‘Edit’ below the title of the post:
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3. This is what the ‘edit post’ screen of the post will look like:
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4. And if you click [Preview Changes] the page will currently look like this on the web:
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5. Add the text you want (we are currently in [Visual] edit mode):
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7. We’ll add another Keyword (scroll down till you see Keywords (comma separated) “wet paint,” *always add a coma(,) after the word to separate the keywords.
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8. Triple click in the Keywords box to highlight all the keywords blue, and copy (Ctrl + C or right click and copy): itDoesCompute_-_edit-post_07
9. Then paste into the tag section (forgot this first time around! ctrl+V or Right Click and Paste) *Keywords are for Google searches, tags are for website searches*
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10. Click on [Add]
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11. Scroll up a bit and click on [Update] then when the page has refreshed, click on [Preview Changes] to check everything is as it should be on the web.
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Yep looks fine!
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You may also want to update the image in the post and the featured image:

Post image update:

1. In [Visual] edit mode, click on the image in the page, holder marks will appear (in pink here), then click on [Add Media]
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2. In the window that appears click on ‘Upload Files’ and drag the new photo onto the screen that appears
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3. The new image appears in our media library. Triple click in the title box to higlight it blue and copy into the Alt Text (alternative name – just in case the image doesnt appear on the viewers screen they’ll see its name) box.
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**actually dont have to do this step in the latest version of wordpress-it does it automatically!!**
4. Click on [Insert into post]
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5. Back in the post edit screen we can see the new image. Don’t forget to click on [Update]!
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Featured image update:

1. The featured image appears in searches and archive searches and represents the post (which may contain many photos). To update first click on ‘Remove featured image’
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2. Then ‘Set featured image’
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3. Select the image we uploaded for the page (or your choice!) and click [Set featured image]
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4. Scroll up and click [Update]
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Done!