I have used images in all these ‘tutorial’ style posts because it makes following the instructions easier.

So how do you upload an image to your blog?

The easiest way is to use the upload box below your WYSIWYG text editor.

Write your blog post upto the point where you wish to add the image.

If the image is stored on your PC, use the browse button in the upload section to browse your computers hard drive and find where you have stored the image. Once you have found it, select the upload button and the image will be placed into the Browse section of the editor.

Here you have the facility to include the image into your post either as a Thumbnail (as shown above), Full Size or just a Title link then select Send to Editor.

After logging into your admin area for your mytenerifeblog.com site, you will be presented with a screen that looks like the one below. To add a blog post you must first of all write it, you do this by clicking on the Write button as indicated in the image below.

From here you will be presented with the simple WYSIWYG text editor shown below.

The main areas you need inorder to create your first ever blog post are labelled A, B, C & D in the image.

A: This is where you place the title of your blog post.

B: This is where you add the text that you wish to post within your blog.

C:  You add your blog to a catagory here, Wordpress by default has the catagory Uncatagorized and  unless you specify another catagory, this is where your post will be added. You can add new catagories to your blog site by typing into the text box and then clicking on the add button. Remember to make sure the correct catagory is selected for your post. You can also add your post to more than one catagory if they are relevant.

D:  Here we have 3 options, they are Save & Continue Editing, Save and Publish.

Save and continue Editing allows you to save a draft copy of the post you are making and continue editing, this is useful should you be creating a post that is particularly long. When you click save and continue editing it basically backs up what you have just written.

Save is useful for when you have completed a blog post but are not ready to publish it on your blog (we will look at this in a later post because this is particularly used in conjuction with your post timestamp and I will explain this in more detail then.)

Publish is the button you click when you are ready to publish you post on your blog site.

There you go, you are now ready to publish your first ever blog post.

Hopper

You may have been wondering how you change the default style of your mytenerifeblog.com blog site to something that is a bit more in keeping with either your own blog or your own personality - well, its not that difficult really.

The default theme that comes with your new mytenerifeblog.com is the same default theme of any wordpress blog, its known as Kubric, its a very clean and functional theme but lacks a bit of imagination (in my opinion). As a result of this, there are many other wordpress themes that have been designed that you can use for your Tenerife Blog.

I use the theme Freshy 1.0 for this blog, the following post is aimed at showing you how you can easily change the Wordpress theme you use. It’s a simpe step by step operation and should take you around 2 minutes to complete.

1. Log into your mytenerifeblog.com admin section.
2. Click the presentation button and you will then see the new screen shown below [fig 1].
3. This screen shows the current theme selected (in this case the default Kubric theme) and a list of all the other themes that are available.
4. Select the style that you wish to use and click the link above the thumbnail to change the theme [fig 2].
5. Your new theme is now set. You can check by clicking the link at the very top of your admin screen that says YOUR BLOG (view site >>)

Fig 1

Fig 2

I hope this helps you to start using your mytenerifeblog.com blog site.

Hopper

Each post will cove a different topic that (hopefully) you will be able to use to advance your own Blog about Tenerife. I am hopeing to demonstrate how to:

• Improve the look and feel of your My Tenerife Blog site.
• Add images and other items of media to posts.
• Increase the number of visitors to your blog.
• Have fun and make a little money whilst you blog.

This blog will not be the definitive guide to blogging (there are far too many of those out there already!) but a simple guide that hopefully will encourage you to launch your own Tenerife based blog.