How To Use WordPress To Format Your Steemit Blog
This is a response to several inquiries I’ve had recently about how I format and publish on Steemit. I’ve developed some workflow systems that people may find valuable.
In this video I show you:
- How I use Evernote to jot down ideas on the fly.
- How I use Google Docs to write because of the auto-save and ease of use.
- The “Add-ons” feature that allows you to transfer a Google doc to a WordPress draft and retain formatting.
- How I let WordPress generate the HTML format needed for Steemit.
- How and Why I’m building two blogs at the same time, without doing twice the work.
A good example of this is found in my Waterfall Tour post that you can see here. Lot’s of photos and videos that were all embedded easily by using WordPress to do the work for me.
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You can view the example post from the video HERE.
I thought I'd throw in a little extra formatting on this post just to show you. WordPress makes this so easy. The photo above is me, sitting on a cliff over the Columbia River. If you click on the image you'll be able to view the full sized version and check out how high I really am by noticing how small the railroad tunnel looks below.
That page divider is simply a centered image. You can google "page dividers" and search images for tons more like it. Save it to your WordPress media and drop them into your posts for a nice formatting touch.
If you have better tools or time-saving hacks for posting to Steemit, formatting, or building an audience I’d love to hear from you!
This is really helpful info and gives me more reason to get myself going with buying a domain and using wordpress to create a site. Thanks. Resteeming.
Right on. Thanks for resteeming.
I think having your own site (or at least one that you have some control over) in conjunction with your Steemit blog makes a lot of sense. And since wordpress is open source I think it's a matter of time before someone makes a blog widget that can cross post automatically. That way you could just write on your wordpress and it would post to the steem blockchain.
But even if that never happens, at least you're building a valuable asset in the form of an email subscriber list.
You're doing it right.
I need to incorporate google docs. My 12 year old is running circles around me in that area. Right now all my posts end up looking like this.....Haha! At least you're posting!
Great video, really appreciate the information.
Cool, thank for the comment. Hope it helps.
The Steemit WYSIWYG editor needs a bit of love, the whole editing process in fact. So good tips you are offering.
I hope this helps! Thanks for reading and commenting!
Thanks a lot for this valuable info. I was getting f**ng frustrated that I couldn't get Steemit to open a link in a new tab, but this takes care of that issue.
I'm not sure I will be using Google Docs that extensively, kind of hating the environment, but I will give it a go.
One thing, does it work correctly with formatting images and wrap-around text and sizes?
So the Open Link In New Tab thing hasn't been working either. That is one piece that doesn't carry over. I forgot to mention that in the video. I set it that way to keep people on the WordPress site once the article publishes there but I still haven't figured out how to do that ftom Steemit.
As far as wrap around text- it's been hit or miss. I've noticed even centering text doesn't always translate either. I think some of the wrap-around issues have to do with the image size because I think the way it's coded is to resize the image to fit whatever screen it's being viewed on. So if I don't mess with the dimensions they always come out as being the same width of the steemit reading screen. I've gotten so used to it that I rarely try the text wrap for a smaller image anymore so I'd have to experiment with that to know for sure.
The open in new window works when you use busy.org, not with steemit.com!
Oh cool! Thanks!
Excellent tips, Cody. VERY WELL WRITTEN POST. Upvoted and Followed!
Thanks! Good to have you here!
Great video, Cody. I wanted the whole thing and really enjoyed it. Upvoted @ 100%
Thanks @terrybrock ! Much appreciated!
This is a great idea and I'm embarrassed not to have thought of it! Thanks for posting this!
bedankt voor deze informatie, ik heb je alvast gevolgd en deze post geupvote, groeten
This is awesome help! I'm not really big on markdown or html, making changes and scrolling back and forth to see how it turned out (trying to understand WHY) tends to get me frustrated. At the same time, it may be a good idea to revitalize my wordpress blog. Thanks for the helpful suggestions!