After creating a default category for your Posts,
which we covered in the previous tutorial,
it's time to start creating the actual Post.
To do so, hover your mouse over the "Posts"option in the toolbar.
You'll see a fly out that contains the "Add New" option
that you can click on to create a new Post.
Or you can open up all of your Posts and there is the "Add New" option here
or click on the "Add New" button at the top of the page.
All three options will help you to add that new Post.
In the "Add New Post" area, the first thing you'll focus
 on is creating a title that's relative to the content
that you're going to write about.
When writing the actual content for the Post,
you can always use the window down below
 to type that text directly into WordPress.
If you're like most users, however,
you've written your content in a word processor like Microsoft Word,
and you want to copy and paste that content
into your WordPress site.
As I highlight and copy this text from a Microsoft Word document, 
notice the bold, italicized and highlighted text.
That's formatting applied through the word processor,
but it's not web formatting.
To safely paste that text into my WordPress Post,
I'll click on the "Toolbar Toggle"button here.
In the next tutorial, I'll show you other features of
the native editor here in WordPress.
To paste my text at this point, I'll click on this
"Paste as text" option.
This the best way to safely paste in text into the WordPress site.
Once I click on the "OK" button,
I'll be working in plain text mode
and if I paste the text in from Microsoft Word,
all that formatting has been erased.
I'll cover more features of the editor in the next tutorial.
For now, I'll click on the "Save Draft" button.
This saves the Post, but it's not published on the front end of the site.
I can also click on the "Preview" button here
if I want to see the way the Post looks on the front end.
This preview is only for me.
My site visitors can't see it until I publish it.
To publish it, I'll return to the back end of the site
and I'll click on the "Publish" button.
Only click on the "Publish" button if you're ready
for your site visitors to see the content on the front end.
I'll return to the front end of our site
and I'll refresh the page so I can see my new post.
We'll see our new Post here and if we scroll down the page
we'll also see previously published Posts
because Posts are a stream of continually updated content.
By returning to the back end you'll also notice
that you have an option to schedule Posts.
Click on the "Edit" button below the calendar
to select a specific date and time for publication.
By scrolling down the page we can also
see an option to save our Post into multiple categories
other than our default category.
You can save one Post to multiple Categories in WordPress.
Another way to organize Posts in WordPress is by applying Tags.
You can compare the way you use Categories and Tags
to the way clothing is organized in a closet.
For example, you might hang your pants, shirts,
and sweaters together in different sections of your closet.
These would be the broader categories of the closet.
But you can organize further by separating
your jeans from your formal pants
or your dress shirts from your casual shirts.
These would be the Tags for the closet.
Tags are visible on the front end of the site
and site visitors can click on the Tag to get an index 
of all of the Posts containing that Tag.
Tags also become part of the Post's metadata,
which is indexed by search engines.
Tags are keywords that can help guide people to your content
and each Tag should be relevant to the content
that you've written.
After separating each tag with a comma here
click on the "Add" button to add those Tags to this Post.
Once you've added the Tags, scroll to the top of the page
and click on the "Update" button to save the Tags
within the Post.
After you've updated your work, return to the front end
of the site and refresh the page.
You'll see a list of the Tags that you've added at the bottom of the Post,
and your users can click on an individual Tag
to see an archive of all the Posts that contain that Tag.
You can also manage Tags by returning to the
WordPress Dashboard and clicking on the
"Tags" option in the toolbar below "Posts".
Here you'll see a list of all the Tags you created
and you can also add new Tags to apply to Posts
that you create in the future.
And one of the best parts about WordPress is that
the content you create is never static.
You can always change it.
For example, we'll return to the Post we just created
and we can always edit or modify this text in any way.
We can also scroll down and add or remove Tags
as we see fit.
In the next tutorial we'll return to this Post
and show you additional text formatting options
using the native WordPress editor.
