How to Publish a Post – Part 1

Welcome to Publishing on The Lotus Post!

We are very happy to have you as a contributor on this amazing platform! We are very much looking forward to your exciting, inspiring and fun posts! Here are a few pointers on how to publish – step by step. Please don’t hesitate to contact us and ask more questions.

Happy Posting!

 

Login and Screen Setup

• • Go to www.thelotuspost.com/login/ and login.
  • Click on “New” > “Post” in the Top Menu. Alternatively click on “The Lotus Post” in the top left corner > select “Dashboard” > “Posts” > “Add New“

• Once you are in the Editing Mode click on “Screen Options” on the top right corner of your screen.

Check: Author, Categories, Tags and Featured Image.

All other fields can remain unchecked. These settings help you to only see the posting features that you really need. You only need to do this once; the settings will remain there after you log out and login again.

Posting

• Title

Add your Post Title in the field: “Enter title here”

If you are publishing someone else’s content make sure the title is different from the original article.

Come up with a title that is enticing and not too long (shouldn’t exceed three lines on the front page: www.thelotuspost.com).

 

• Text Body

Paste what you would like to publish in the Text Field.

The Text Field has two modes: Visual and Text.

• • If you paste your content to the visual editor it will come up with all the links and picture that you copied from the original article. Some of the original formatting such as headings will be imported as well. Make sure it looks decent on the published post.

 

 

• If you paste your content to the text editor the content will be transformed to unformatted text. All links and pictures will be lost which can be good if there is a lot of linking to outside sources. You will see the code of the format (i.e.: <strong>anything in between here will be shown bold</strong>.

 

• Embedding Videos

If you would like to embed a video to your post go to the video and get the embed code. Paste the embed code into the TEXT EDITOR of your post (as described above). Change to Visual editor and check if the video is there.

Get embed link from youtube: 

• go to the video and click on “share” below it.

 

• Choose “embed”

 

• Click on “Copy”
• Paste into the TEXT EDITOR of your post.

Get embed link from vimeo: 

• Click on the “share” button (little paper plane) on the right side of the video.

• Copy the code in the “Embed” Window.

• Paste into the TEXT EDITOR of your post.

 

• Links

Make sure you include a link to the original article at the bottom of your post and credit your images.

To do so click on the Hyperlink Icon in the Visual Editor or the “link” button in the Text Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

Both will bring you to this screen:

• Insert the URL of the article you want to link including http://
• Insert the text you want to show up instead of the URL.
  • If you are linking to the original article of a post we suggest you type in this field: “Go To Source”, “Read Original Article” or “Source”.
  • If you are linking to where you go your picture from type the name of the site for example.
• Check the “Open Link in a new tab” if the links refers to a link that is not on The Lotus Post.

If you are relinking a post/page, etc that is already on the site go to the “Search” field and type what you are looking for. This is a great way to refer to previously posted content.

• Click “Add Link”

  Voila! You did it! Take a little break and continue with Part 2!