How to post on Holiday Padstow

A two-minute guide. If you can write an email, you can do this.

1. Log in

1. Go to www.holidaypadstow.com/ghost
2. Log in with your own account (James has sent you the email and password).
3. You'll land on a dashboard. Ignore almost all of it — everything you need is under Posts.

Your account can write, edit and publish posts, and nothing else — so you genuinely cannot break the website. There are also three unpublished draft guides waiting in your Posts list (the ferry, parking, and dog-beaches ones) — have a look at them to see how a finished post is put together. Don't publish them yet; James will say when.

2. Write a new post

1. Click the + New post button (top right, or the pencil icon).
2. Click where it says Post title and type your headline.
   Good: "Sunday morning at Harlyn Bay". Just say what it is.
3. Click below the title and write. Press Enter for a new paragraph. That's it — it's just typing, like an email.

3. Add photos

• Drag a photo from your computer straight into the text. It uploads itself.
• Or press Enter for a new line, click the little + that appears on the left, and choose Image.
• The big picture at the top: click Add feature image (just above the title) and pick your best photo. This is the one that shows on the homepage, so choose a good landscape (wide) shot.
• Use your own photos only — never pictures saved from other websites or Google.

4. Publish it

1. Click Publish (top right).
2. Before you confirm, look at the right-hand panel for Tags — click it and pick one or two that fit (e.g. beach, cafe, cliff walk, drink, food). Just choose from the suggestions that pop up; no need to invent new ones.
3. Click Continue, final review → Publish post, right now.
4. Done. It's live at www.holidaypadstow.com immediately.

5. Made a mistake?

1. Click Posts in the left menu and click the post.
2. Fix the typo, swap the photo, whatever.
3. Click Update (top right). Changes are live instantly.

Nothing you do in a post can break the website. Worst case, a post looks a bit odd — easily fixed.

6. Two things NOT to touch

• Settings (the gear icon) — this controls how the whole site works.
• Design or code anything — the site's look is handled separately.

Stick to Posts and you cannot go wrong.

7. Keep it sounding like you

The blog already has a voice — yours. The recipe from your old posts: talk straight to the reader ("you"), open with the season or the walk in, recommend what you actually ate or did (name the dish, the price, the time), one insider tip per post (jam first, mind the seagulls), a pun where one presents itself, and sign off with a "why not…" invitation. Keep doing exactly that.

8. Quick recipe (once you've done it twice)

/ghost → + New post → title → write → drag photos in → Add feature image → Publish → pick a tag → Publish post, right now.

Stuck on anything? Message James.