in this tutorial we're going to show youhow to start a blog on your business website. we'llteach you exactly how to add a blog to your website so that itwill come up in your top menu bar right here so that when a visitor clicks on theblog section,
hot to create blog wordpress, they'll be taken to all your articles,and they'll be able to click and view full article and it's agreat way to keep in touch with your customers. so what is a blog? like i said, use it to postinteresting content or articles
that relate to the content or a topic of yourbusiness. or you can make a business blog to update your customers about newproducts or services. and it's been shown that businesses thatstart a blog tend to attract more customers, so it'sdefinitely worthwhile. if you haven't got an existing website and you want to know how to make a blogfrom scratch, we will be putting a tutorial out there in the near future,however this video is specifically for you guys that already have awordpress website
for your business and you want to add ablog section to it. so let's begin. the first thing you need to do is go intoyour wordpress dashboard so your website.com/wp-admin enter yourusername/password, and login. go into settings, and permalinks. currently the structureof our urls is the domainname.com/postname which is whatever your postis called. so to give you
an example, for the physiotherapy page this is the url: jimsphysio.com/physiotherapy.now we want to change that for the blog section, it won't affectthe rest of your pages which you've been adding but it will affect the posts which we'll use to add blog posts. so change this to exactly what i have on the screenhere. if that's hard to follow
i'll put that up on our website as wellso you can just copy and paste that into the custom structure section righthere. hit save changes. what we going to donow is add a blog category so what will happenwhen we add blog post is it will be our url.com/blog/blogtitle so therefore it will be very structured. to add a new blog category go into posts, categories
name - blog slug - blog slug is just theurl version that will appear the in the extension so we can leave that as blog none for parent and you can enterdescription if you want we'll leave it blank. and then hit new category i'd already done that previously so after you hit add new category the blogcategory will be added right here. the next thing you can do is
start adding blog posts and to give youan example, i'm going to add a couple dummy posts. soclick add new now let's go ahead and enter some dummy blog posts to see how it willappear on your website say 10 quick tips to optimize your site i'm just going to look for some dummy data. now after you've enteredyour blog posts, whatever it may be make sure you select the category hereas blog and then click publish. you'll notice thatwhen you view post
your url extension will be yourwebsite.com/blog/postname okay so all add a couple more. so i've added 3 blog posts, to view these blog posts we can go to website.com/blog and that is exactlywhat your blog section is going to look like on your website. you'll see every post is listed and users will be able to scroll down and
select any individual blog they want to view in full. but the only problem now is that userscannot find section so what we going to do is put a blog link in the top menu just here somewhere to do that go backinto dashboard and go into appearance menus and in custom links enter your blog extension which is your website.com/blog
you can label that blog or anything else you want.add to menu now drag and drop thatwherever you want that to appear so we'll put it just and before contact us, andsave menu. when i refresh our site you'll notice the blog section appearsright here, so when i use a lands on the homepage or wherever they are on your site they can easily scroll through your site and go to your blog and therefore viewany of the posts you make.
there you go it's as easy as that tomake your own blog or to add your own blog to an existingwebsite i should say. if you want to make a blog from scratch and you haven't got an existingwebsite, we're going to put a video out in the near future for you to be able todo that. we hope this video has been helpful, andplease like this video and subscribe to our channel. if you have any questions feel free to email us and we'll do our best to helpyou. thanks for watching.
