Using the Publish box – Working with Drafts in WordPress.

WordPress gives you a few extra options when it comes to Publishing your Post.
The Publish box is on the right side of the ‘Write Post Page’.
The functions of the ‘Save Draft’, ‘Preview’ and ‘Publish’ buttons are obvious.
It’s the options in the middle of the Publish box I’m going to explain here.
Status, Visibility and the Time Stamp
To edit these options just click on the Edit Link on the right of each option.
This will expand the menu (see the image below)

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Status Options; Use the Drop down Menu to choose, and then click ‘OK’

• Published; the post is already published and live on your site, viewable by anyone.
  You can still edit the post and change its status at any time
• Pending review; Your Post is waiting to be approved by an administrator
• Draft; The Post is only viewable by yourself and administrators until the status is changed to ‘Published’

Visibility Options; Use the Radio Buttons to choose, and then click ‘OK’

• Public; Your post will be visible to everyone when its Published
• Public- Stick this Post to the front page;
  In some themes this option will publish this post at the top , on your home page, over newer posts. Until you change it.
• Password Protected; Choose this option if you want to limit who sees your Post when it’s published. You can give the password to the people you would like to read.
• Private; Your post will be published but only you will be able to see it.

Post Timestamp
You can schedule when your post will be published by editing the time and date in this section.
For Example … if you have written several posts in one day. But would like to space out when they are published and go live. You can schedule the time here.
You can also change the date published to an earlier time if you need to.
When you’ve selected the time and date you want click ‘OK’

Inserting Links and using Images as links in WordPress Posts and Pages

Most Word processing applications such as Microsoft Word will automatically transform URL’s into a Hyperlink.
In WordPress it’s a little more work than that … but ‘Inserting a link’ into your post is quick and easy  when you know how.

1. Select the text or image that you want to be a link then Click on the ‘Insert / Edit link button’

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2.  In the Window that Opens.
Enter the URL of the web site or web page you want to link to into the Link URL text box (see image below)
3. In the Target textbox you can set whether you want the link to open in a new browser window or the same window.
4. The Title text box is a description of the link and is used by some browsers as Alt text
5. You can also change the Class (formatting) of the link
Don’t worry about this unless you know what you’re doing
6. Click on the ‘Insert’ Button …
You’re done!  You can now Save and preview and test the link or publish your Post.

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To Insert an Image link.

After you have inserted the image into your post.
Select the image by clicking on it then simply follow the same steps as above.