In order to upload your own content, you will need to write a WordPress post. You can do this if you are a registered user.
 
UPLOADING YOUR OWN CONTENT:

Once you are logged on:
1. Click on the CONTRIBUTE CONTENT option under where it says “Welcome UserName” in the box.

2. Start filling in the blanks. Start by choosing a title for your post. Then start filling in the post itself. If you would like to add a video to your post, upload your video to Youtube. Once your video is uploaded to Youtube (there are step-by-step instructions and videos on Youtube on doing this), “copy” the embed code and “paste” that embed code into your blog post where you would like the video to show up.

3. Select a category and add tags (words that describe your post). Each of the sections are explained below.

4. When you are ready, click PUBLISH.
 

 
EMBEDDING A VIDEO:

If you have found a video on the web that you would like to share, look for the share options available for that video. What you want to find is the embeddable code which is usually labeled “Embed Code”. For an example of “Embed Code” on the Lipstick Wisdom blog, look underneath a Lipstick Wisdom produced video (if you click on “All Lipstick Wisdom Videos” you will see them).

a. Highlight the EMBED CODE associated with the video you want to share and right click with your mouse in order to COPY the embed code.

b. Make sure you are in “HTML” mode (it should be highlighted). The HTML option is found underneath the Title entry for the post.

c. Once you have selected the HTML option, right click with your mouse to COPY the embed code into the WRITE post.

d. Then add a title, description, keywords, etc.

e. When you are ready, PUBLISH your post.

3. If an Embed Code share option is not available, you can COPY the Video URL and PASTE the URL into the WRITE post.

 
 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WORDPRESS POST FIELDS:

Title

The title of your post. You can use any words or phrases. Avoid using the same title twice as that will cause problems. You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols in the post like “My Site – Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid.” WordPress will clean it up for the link to the post, called the post-slug.

Post Editing Area

The big blank box where you enter your writing, links, links to images, and any information you want to display on your site. You can use either the Visual or the HTML view to compose your posts. For more on the HTML view, see the section below, Visual Versus HTML View.

Preview this Post

Allows you to see how your post will look before officially publishing it.

Publish Status

Shows three states for the post: Published, Pending Review, and Unpublished. A Published status means the post has been published on your blog for all to see. Pending Review means the draft is waiting for review by someone else prior to publication. Unpublished means the post has not been published and remains a draft. If you select a specific publish status and then click the Save button, that status is applied to the post. For example, to save a post in the Pending Review status, select Pending Review from the Publish Status drop-down box, and then click Save. You can see all posts organized by status by going to Manage > Posts. NOTE: To schedule a post for a future time or date, hit “Edit” in the Publish Status area of the post screen. Change the settings to the desired time and date. You must also hit the “Publish” button when you have completed the post for the post to be published at the desired time and date.

Permalink

After you save your post, the Permalink below the title shows the potential URL for the post, as long as you have permalinks enabled. (To enable permalinks, go to Settings > Permalinks.) The URL is generated from your title. In previous versions of WordPress, this was referred to as the “page-slug.” The commas, quotes, apostrophes, and other non-HTML favorable characters are changed and a dash is put between each word. If your title is “My Site – Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid”, it will be cleaned up to be “my-site-heres-lookin-at-you-kid” as the title. You can manually change this, maybe shortening it to “my-site-lookin-at-you-kid”.

Save

Allows you to save your post as a draft rather than immediately publishing it. To return to your drafts later, click the Manage tab, click the Drafts link that appears below the Manage Posts title, and then click your draft post.

Publish

Publishes your post on the site. You can edit the time when the post is published by clicking the Edit link above the Publish button and specifying the time you want the post to be published. By default, at the time the post is first auto-saved, that will be the date and time of the post within the database.

Press This

A Press This shorcut can be created by adding the Press This link to your favourites.

Tags

Refers to micro-categories for your blog, similar to including index entries for a page. Posts with similar tags are linked together when a user clicks one of the tags. Tags have to be enabled with the right code in your theme for them to appear in your post.

Categories

The general topic the post can be classified in. Generally, bloggers have 7-10 categories for their content. Readers can browse specific categories to see all posts in the category. To add a new category, click the +Add New Category link in this section. You can manage your categories by going to Manage > Categories.

Excerpt

A summary or brief teaser of your posts featured on the front page of your site as well as on the category, archives, and search non-single post pages. Note that the Excerpt does not usually appear by default. It only appears in your post if you have changed the index.php template file to display the Excerpt instead of the full Content of a post. If so, WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your post as the Excerpt or up until the use of the More Quicktag mark. If you use an Explicit Excerpt, this will be used no matter what. For more information, see Excerpt.

Trackbacks

A way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If you link other WordPress blogs, they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks. No other action is necessary. For those blogs that don’t recognize pingbacks, you can send a trackback to the blog by entering the website address(es) in this box, separating each one by a space. See Trackbacks and Pingbacks for more information.

Custom Fields

Custom Fields offer a way to add information to your site. In conjunction with extra code in your template files or plugins, Custom Fields can modify the way a post is displayed. These are primarily used by plugins, but you can manually edit that information in this section.

Comments & Pings

Options to enable interactivity and notification of your posts. This section hosts two check boxes: Allowing Comments and Allowing Pings. If Allowing Comments is unchecked, no one can post comments to this particular post. If Allowing Pings is unchecked, no one can post pingbacks or trackbacks to this particular post.

Password Protect This Post
Allows you to keep this particular post private so that only those with the password can read it. Be sure and write down the password and keep it in a safe place.

Post Author
A list of all blog authors you can select from to attribute as the post author. This section only shows if you have multiple users with authoring rights in your blog. To view your list of users, see Users tab on the far right. For more information, see Users and Authors.

VISUAL VERSUS HTML EDITOR:

When writing your post, you have the option of using the visual or HTML mode of the editor. The visual mode lets you see your post as is, while the HTML mode shows you the code and replaces the WYSIWYG editor buttons with quicktags. These quicktags are explained as follows.

• b – HTML tag for strong emphasis of text (i.e. bold).
• i – HTML tag for emphasis of text (i.e. italicize).
• b-quote – HTML tag to distinguish quoted or cited text.
• del – HTML tag to label text considered deleted from a post. Most browsers display as striked through text.
• link – HTML tag to create a hyperlink.
• ins – HTML tag to label text considered inserted into a post. Most browsers display as underlined text.
• ul – HTML tag will insert an unordered list, or wrap the selected text in same. An unordered list will typically be a bulleted list of items.
• ol – HTML tag will insert a numbered list, or wrap the selected text in same. Each item in an ordered list are typically numbered.
• li – HTML tag will insert or make the selected text a list item. Used in conjunction with the ul or ol tag.
• code – HTML tag for preformatted styling of text. Generally sets text in a monospaced font, such as Courier.
• more – WordPress tag that breaks a post into “teaser” and content sections. Type a few paragraphs, insert this tag, then compose the rest of your post. On your blog’s home page you’ll see only those first paragraphs with a hyperlink ((more…)), which when followed displays the rest of the post’s content.
• page – WordPress tag similar to the more tag, except it can be used any number of times in a post, and each insert will “break” and paginate the post at that location. Hyperlinks to the paginated sections of the post are then generated in combination with the wp_link_pages() or link_pages() template tag.
• lookup – Opens a JavaScript dialogue box that prompts for a word to search for through the online dictionary at answers.com. You can use this to check spelling on individual words.
• Close Tags – Closes any open HTML tags left open–but pay attention to the closing tags. WordPress is not a mind reader (!), so make sure the tags enclose what you want, and in the proper way.