Here is a quick rundown of the steps on how to manage your first posts to your wordpress blog.  I will be showing you how to:

1. Log-in to Wordpress
2. Access the dashboard and go to your posts
3. Delete your first post and replace it with a new one
4. Add video to your blog

To Access the Control Panel at Wordpress.  First type your web address followed by a /wp-admin

Next type admin as the username and then your log in password.

By default, Wordpress puts a post as a sample placeholder.  We are going in and deleting that one by first clicking on the word posts,  along the left sidebar.

When you mouse over the selected post below, the word delete will light up.  Click on it to delete the post.

Along the left sidebar, click dashboard and that will take you back to here.

Once at the dashboard, click on add new, under posts.

This sounds a little bit technical and maybe even a little underhanded, but it is pretty simple and it is actually even encouraged by youtube and their subscribers.  By allowing easy access to the embed code, a viral video can traverse the world 100s of times before you can finish reading this post.  Check out Christian the Lion for example.

Right click on the embed code and copy to the clipboard

Before adding the embed code, click the “html” tab next to the “visual” tab, up in the right corner of the editor.  Then paste the code you have copied from YouTube.

Then click view post until you are satisfied.  Sometimes you find a change you want to make so feel free to make edits- then click update post.

Then you can click “visit site” to view the end product.   Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.