Posts

The Posts menu in the Dashboard has 4 subheadings, All Posts, New Posts, Categories and Tags. 

All Posts: This lists all posts on your site, and allows you to edit or delete them. There is only one post provided, The Welcome to My Blog post. You should have updated this to be a welcome to your blog.

Add New: This gives you access to the WordPress Block Editor where you can construct a new post.

Categories: You can define subject categories and assign Posts to different Categories. This is where you can manage those Categories. Only one Category, Post, has been defined, and it is the default.

Tags: You can also assign Tags to Posts. However none have been defined so far.

Block Editor

The Block Editor is the standard WordPress editor for Posts and Pages. It provides different types of Blocks for you to construct your output from, including headings, text, lists and images. There are tutorials on the web on using the Block Editor, such as this. Here I will just introduce a couple of tricks.

There are a few options in a menu at the top of the screen, split between a group on the right, and a group on the left. The third icon from the right is a Settings toggle which shows or hides a menu on the right of the screen. The menu has 2 tabs, Post and Block.

Under the Post tab you will find options including Stick the post to the top of the blog, Author, Categories, Featured Image and Excerpt.

Featured Image will allow you to select an image from your Media Library to appear at the top of your Post. The image is also used when you share a link to the post on social media.

Excerpt: With the default customisation choices, the Nisarg theme places the first six lines of each post on your Home page, followed by a Read More button. If you would like more, or even all of a post (including any embedded media) to appear on the Home page you can achieve this by copying the part of the Post you wish to display into the Excerpt box. However be aware that updates to the Post are not automatically copied to the Excerpt box, so you will have to repeat the cut and paste if the updates affect the Excerpt.

Code Editor

If you click on the three dots at the right of the top menu you get a drop down that includes the ability to switch between the visual editor you normally work with, and a code editor which gives you access to the underlying HTML. If you are confident with HTML you can work at this level. When copying an Excerpt you can use either the Code Editor, or the Visual Editor.

Creating a New Post

Select Dashboard Posts – Add New. This will take you to the Block Editor.

Give your post a title and add the contents. Build your Post using the different types of block, such as paragraph, heading, list, image etc. You add a new block by selecting the small plus (+) sign to the right of your Post. 

If you type / as the first character of a new block you will get a drop down of the most common types of Block.  If you click the +  symbol (Toggle block inserter) in the top left menu you will see a structured list of all the available blocks. One of the choices is a Classic Block which uses the editor WordPress used before the introduction of the Block Editor.

Pages

The Pages menu in the Dashboard has 2 subheadings, All Pages, and New Page. These behave much the same as the equivalent subheadings for Posts. 

To create s new Page select Dashboard Pages – New Page. This will display the Block Editor. The layout of the editor is very similar to that for Posts. The settings panel to the right of the screen is also very similar though not all the Post options are relevant for Pages.

Customising the Menu

Once you have created a New Page, you need to include it in your Menu Select Dashboard Appearance – Menus, and find your new Page in the list of Pages on the left of the screen, tick the checkbox next to the page name, and the click Add to Menu. The Page will appear at the bottom of the menu structure on the right of the screen.  You can then move the menu items to the correct position in the menu by dragging it with finger or mouse. You can make it a sub-menu by indenting it slightly under the menu item you are attaching it to. Some devices use Move options within the Menu items to move them.

If you have deleted some pages, remove the link to them in the Menu by clicking on small down-arrow next to the menu item and selecting Remove.

Once you have made the changes you require, select Save Menu at the top right of the window.