Step-by-step instructions to Edit Content in WordPress

Here are Agaric Design's step by step directions for logging into a WordPress site and administering or editing content.

1. Go to http://example.com/wp-login.php
   • If you've forgotten your password, click "forgot your password?" and type in your username and e-mail address. If you've forgotten one of these as well, you need to know someone's administrative login for your WordPress blog or the login to your MySQL database, where you can look up the username and e-mail address.
2. Upon logging in, you will be taken to the administration section: http://example.com/wp-admin/
3. Click on "Manage" (the third tab from the left at top). This will take you to http://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php
4. Click on "Pages" (second from left) if you are editing static, or stable, content as opposed to temporal blog posts. This will take you to http://example.com/wp-admin/edit-pages.php
5. Your content will be listed in a table with the title of each page on the left and operation links on the right. Choose the page whose content needs to be modified and click "Edit" (on that line on the left).
6. This brings you to a screen with that page's content in an editable field (either a rich text editor or plain text in a simplified version of HTML markup). Make the changes you need.
7. Click "Save and Continue Editing" or "Edit Page »" to save your changes.
8. Finally, click the "View site »" link at the top of the WordPress administrative section to view your site, http://example.com/
9. If you need to make further changes there should be an "Edit" link on the content itself that you can click, or you can enter the pages administration section again at http://example.com/wp-admin/ or directly at http://example.com/wp-admin/edit-pages.php and follow these steps again.

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