You can write a blog in one of two ways, either from the header by clicking on Write a Blog or from the drop down menu. Either way will present you with a logon screen. If you don't have a logonid you can also register from this screen.

Once logged on you will be presented with your profile and a header. from the header click on the Write tab to enter the blog editor.

There is no right or wrong order to writing a post in Wordpress, but we'll start from the top and give you the step-by-step details for filling in each of the blanks on the Write Post panel. WordPress has two post editing modes, basic and advanced. Typically, the basic mode is the default for writing new posts, but that can be changed with the When starting a post option in the Writing Options SubPanel of the Options Administration Panel. We will take you first through the basic post screen and then the advanced.

• Your Drafts If you have posts you have written and saved as Drafts, they will be listed here. Click on the title link to open that posts' Write Post edit screen, edit the post, and when you are ready, click Publish and it will be released to your site and to the world.
• Title This is where you enter 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.
• Discussion
  The Discussion section hosts two checkbox choices. One is for Allowing Comments and the other is for 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.
• Uploads
  
  You can upload files for reference within a post. This is especially ueful if you want to include photos in your post.
• Password-Protect Post
  To keep this particular post private so that only those with the password can read it, enter a password here. Be sure and write it down somewhere safe.
• Categories
  The list of categories on your site is found here. By default, the uncategorized category will be checked, unless you have already changed the name of that category. Check the categories and sub-categories the post belongs in and make sure to uncheck "uncategorized" if applicable.
• Excerpt
  An Excerpt is 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. WordPress handles Post Excerpts in two ways. One is by an explicit excerpt and the other is through the use of the Quicktag button more. If you want to have a summary of the post show, rather than the first paragraph or so, write the summary of your post in the excerpt field.
• Quicktags
  Quicktags are buttons right above the Post editing textarea box. These buttons produce HTML tags for bold, italic, image, link, lists, and more. Click on these to add their HTML tags and the tag will either be reproduced in the editing area or a window will pop-up asking you to fill in the details, and when you are done, the information will be in the editing area.
• Post Editing Area
  The big blank box is where you enter your writing, links, links to images, and any information you want to display on your site is the Post Editing Textarea or editing box.
• Save and Continue Editing
  Below the Post Editing textarea box are three buttons. The first one is Save and Continue Editing. If you would like to save the post to your database, but continue working on it, click this button. Below in the Preview screen, you will then see your post. Using this button, the post will not be published unless the Publish check box is checked below in the Post Status area.
• Save
  In theory, clicking the Save button will save your post. But it is a conditional save. Using the Advanced Editing screen, if the option in the Post Status is set to Draft, your post will be saved as a Draft. If set to Publish, the post will be saved and published to your site. If set to Private, the post will be saved as a private post, accessible only by you, the user/author and not the public. Once you have clicked Save, the Write Post screen will clear and you will be ready to add another post.
• Publish
  To publish your post to your site, click the Publish button.

In addition to the basic editing screen contents, the following is visible when using the advanced post editing screen. In the Post Status section there are three choices. Draft, Publish, and Private. To save the post as a Draft, choose Draft. To publish the post when you click Save, then choose Publish. To keep the post private, choose Private.

• Send Trackbacks To
  Trackbacks let other blogs know you've referenced one of their articles. To send trackbacks from this post, enter the URI or website addresses in the box, separating each one by a space.
• Post Slug
  This is where WordPress will "clean up" your post title to create a link, if you are using Permalinks. The commas, quotes, apostrophes, and other non-HTML favourable 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".
• Post Author This is where the author of the post's name is chosen from a pull down list. Authors are added to your site by registering and through the Users and Authors panel.
• Edit Time
  By default, at the time the post is saved, that will be the date and time of the post within the database. To change this, click the checkbox and change the date and time information. All posts dated in the future will not appear on the site until that time has passed. If you wish to write posts that will automatically appear on your schedule, set the date and time here.
• Delete This Post
  If you decide to Delete this post forever, click this button. It will ask "Are you sure?" to give you a second chance to reconsider.
• 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.

At the very bottom of your Write Post screen is a buried treasure feature of WordPress that is a powerful tool. The WordPress Press It bookmarklet is a bit of Javascript you can click and drag to your browser link bar. Just put your mouse over the link, press down on the left button and, without letting go, drag it to the top menu bar of your browser (most browsers) where the "Link Toolbar" resides and release it. It will add a link that says "Press It" and the name of your WordPress site.

When visiting a web page that has information you would like to share with your WordPress site users, click the Press It link and a window will pop-up. If you are not logged into your site, the login will appear. If you are, it will automatically bring up the Write Post screen with the link to the site you are currently viewing already set in the Post Editing box and the title of the site in your post Title box. You can write more information about the site, change the title, set the categories, and when you are ready, choose Save as Draft, Save as Private, and Publish. Choose Publish and your post is published to your site, ready for the world to see and read. Simple and easy.