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If you’ve just entered our competition to win a free Club Penguin membership, then you will need some tips on how to get started in blogging. This website contains lots of advice. Just read the articles below to find out how to get going. A very good one to start with is this one about basic blogging. Also, if you want to know who else has entered, the other people are listed in my “Blogroll” section on the right of this page!

Here’s a video that shows you how to change your “mouse cursor” (the white pointer) into a cool Penguin shaped cursor when you are playing Club Penguin. You can get the cursor here

The winner of the December competition is… Blackpearl8! Well done! You get a free membership to Club Penguin for 12 months.

And to everyone else, keep blogging! The most improved blog at the end of January will win the next membership!

The competition has only been running for a week and already two of the contestants have started blogging. If you have entered this competition and are having trouble getting started, leave a comment at the bottom of this post and ask for help. If you haven’t entered yet, here is what to do: Email me (clubpenguincomp@gmail.com) and say “I want to start blogging”. I’ll set you up with a free blog here on PenguinPunk and you can make your blog. The blog that has the best new posts each month wins a free 12 month membership to Club Penguin!!!

Hello, I’m Cool Comp and I’d like to tell you about blogging. Well, blogging is a very simple way to make your own website, for free. You have complete control over your website, and what you put on it.

A blog is made up of “posts” which are just like diary entries. Each has a title, a date, and a load of words that you type into it.

To find out more about writing a post on your blog, go to my post called “Writing on your blog“.

Here are some example blogs to give you some inspiration: First, Tigirl has a blog, and she was the winner of the Club Penguin free membership contest in October. A really good Club Penguin blog is Kornareso’s blog, which is good for Club Penguin cheats.

And remember, whoever makes the best blog on PenguinPunk every month gets a free membership!

Your blog has a name right at the top, something like “Cool Comp’s Blog”. If you want to change this name, do this:

1. Make sure you are logged into your blog, and go to your Dashboard.
2. Click on “Options” in the top menu.
3. You can change the “Blog Title” to anything you like.
4. You can also change the “Tagline” which is like a second, smaller title that appears below the main title.
5. WARNING: Don’t change any other setting on this page or you could mess up your blog!
6. Click “Update Options” when you are finished.

If you want to change the password for logging into your blog, do this:

1. Make sure you are logged in.
2. Go to your dashboard and click “Users” in the top menu bar.
3. Then in the menu bar just below this, click “Your Profile”.
4. If you scroll down a bit, you’ll see a section called “Update your password”.
5. Type the new password in the box labelled “New Password”.
6. Type it again in the box labelled “Type it one more time”.
7. Click “Update Profile”.

If you see a cool video on YouTube and want to put it on your blog, here is what to do: (Warning, these instructions are a bit tricky!!!)

1. Go to YouTube and watch the video.
2. On the right of the YouTube screen you will see an “About this video” section.
3. In that section, there is a bit that says “Embed” then some funny codes like this: <object width=”425″…
4. You need to copy those code by clicking on them (so they go dark blue) then right click and choose “Copy”.
5. Go to your blog dashboard and click “Users” then “Your Profile”.
6. Make sure you get rid of the check-mark next to “Use Visual Editor when writing”.
7. Click “Update Profile”.
8. Now go to your blog and start writing a blog post. You have changed to a special, weird editor, not like the normal one.
9. All your writing will look a bit funny, as this edito shows you the codes behind what you type. Don’t worry, just go to the place in your writing where you want the video to appear, right click and choose “Paste”. All those codes you copied will be put into your post.
10. Now Publish the post, and you will see that your video is in it!!!
11. Don’t forget to go back to your Dashboard, click “Users” then “My profile” and add the check-mark back in next to “Use the visual editor when writing”, and click “Update Profile”. This puts the editor back to normal.

The main part of having a blog is writting stuff on it for other people to read. This is called writing a “Post”. Each little article you write is a “blog post”, and each has a title, a date, and the words that you write.

To write a blog post, do this:

1. Make sure you are logged into your blog. Remember, you need to go to username.penguinpunk.com/wp-admin to log in.
2. Go to your Dashboard and click on “Write”. You will see a screen with a space for a title and the words you want to write.
3. Enter a Title, then type all the words you want in this blog post.
4. Click “Publish” to put the post onto your blog. It’s really that simple!!! (Note, don’t click the “Save” option, click the “Publish” option. “Save” just saves it for later, but doesn’t make it public. Use “save” for posts you are only half way through.

Blog posts can also have “Tags” and “Categories”. Tags just describe what is in the post. Categories are used to file all posts that are similar in one place. For example, if you do a post about “funny pictures”, then make a “Funny Pictures” category and put this post in that category. Later, if you make a post called “More funny pictures” you can put that post in the “Funny Pictures” category too. Then, on your blog a little menu will appear, letting someone click to see all the posts that contain “Funny Pictures”.

If you have written a post that you want to get rid of, then you need to delete it! You may also have noticed that you have a post called “Hello World!” which is there in your blog when you first start. To delete a post, do this:

1. Make sure you are logged in, then go to your Dashboard.
2. Click “Manage” in the top menu bar.
3. You will see a list of blog posts. Over on the far right-hand-side there is a little word saying “delete” next to each post. Click on the “delete” next to the post you want to get rid of.
4. The computer will ask you if you really want to delete it, and you need to say “OK”.
5. It’s gone!