Thanks so much for contributing to the Awesome Ladies Project. We value your unique voice and we’re so excited to have you here with us sharing your knowledge and opinion.
Quick Summary
The following is a best practices guide to help you write your Awesome Ladies article and have it move quickly through the editing and publishing process. Some people like really detailed instructions with screenshots, some people like figuring it out for themselves.
If you have any questions about the process or your articles please email rukristin@theawesomeladiesproject.com — no questions are stupid, and you’re not bothering me when you ask a question 🙂.
Getting Started
The first step to writing any article(after your pitch is approved) is to brainstorm and write your first draft. I highly recommend that you write up your first draft on paper or in a separate Word/Google document. The reason is twofold.
First, this is your backup. In case something gets deleted, or WordPress doesn’t auto save your update and your internet browser crashes, etc. Don’t lose hours of precious work because you didn’t write up a first draft and don’t have a backup.
Second, your writing will be better if you’ve created a first draft before writing your final draft. The Awesome Ladies are all about learning to be the best version of your creative self, and these articles are no different. This is your chance to share your voice, style and personality with the rest of the Awesome Ladies.
Every post gets edited before it’s published. Yes, this is definitely a time consuming process, but we are the Awesome Ladies, and our content needs to be Awesome as well. When I’m editing, I’m looking for readability, grammar, and overall structure. I’m adding a tips and tools section at the end of this guide to help you master the Awesome Ladies contributor process.
You have been assigned the role of Author which allows you to write posts in the Awesome Ladies back-end WordPress editor and save them so that I can go in and edit them before scheduling them to publish.
Using WordPress
WordPress is the software that the Awesome Ladies Project runs on. It is used by websites all over the world to create and manage websites. When you’re using the Awesome Ladies site regularly, you’re interacting with the front end of WordPress. When you’re writing your posts, you’ll be using the back end of WordPress. If you’re unfamiliar with WordPress, I’ll go through a few basic steps to get you started with what you need to know.
To access the back end of our WordPress software, please visit:
If you’re not automatically logged in, it will prompt you to log-in, and then it should redirect you back to the back end page. If it doesn’t, just copy and paste the above URL again.
It will look like this:
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This is the WordPress dashboard. It’s sort of the homepage of the back end of WordPress. Everything that you need to access from the back end is on this page.
As a contributor, you’ll mostly be using the Posts section of the website(not shown here). Access posts via the left sidebar of the back end, the admin bar at the top, or by going directly to the page: http://theawesomeladiesproject.com/wp-admin/edit.php. You’ll return here for any saved drafts.
Starting a New Post
To start writing a new post, mouse over Posts in the left sidebar, and click on Add New. You will be directed to a page that looks like this:
Quick Summary
Getting Started
Using WordPress
Starting a New Post