{"id":84637,"date":"2018-04-23T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=84637"},"modified":"2018-04-23T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:15:47","slug":"how-to-use-the-wordpress-desktop-app-for-your-self-hosted-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-use-the-wordpress-desktop-app-for-your-self-hosted-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"How to use the WordPress desktop APP for your self-hosted blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is the most popular CMS nowadays, no wonder lot of people looked for the way to post their news in a handy and distraction-free way. Thereby, and Automattic company created a special WordPress desktop application for this purpose. Today, we&#8217;re going to present you an extremely easy to follow guidance on how to use such an APP for your self-hosted blog. Let&#8217;s check it in details.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n <li>\r\n\t<p> The first thing you need to do, is to install the JetPack plugin to your WordPress website. It can be done at the <strong>&#8216;Plugins&#8217; -> &#8216;Add new&#8217;<\/strong> section in the dashboard &#8211; just look it up using the search field at the top right, then press &#8216;Install&#8217;, and, finally, activate the plugin. If your site is based on wordpress.com, you&#8217;ll have it already setup.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_1-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_1-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_1-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_1.png 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\r\n <\/li>\r\n <li>\r\n\t<p>On the next step, system will ask you to connect JetPack with your account on WordPress.com. To do so, click the <strong>&#8216;Set up Jetpack&#8217;<\/strong> button and login to WordPress.com on the next page. If you don&#8217;t have an account yet, create it using the <strong>&#8216;Sign Up&#8217;<\/strong> option (select the paid plan you want, or scroll down the page to see a <strong>&#8216;Start with free&#8217;<\/strong> button, this will let you register the free account).<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_2-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_2-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_2-150x101.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_2.png 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\r\n  <\/li>\r\n <li>\r\n\t<p>Now you&#8217;re fully prepared to using the WordPress Desktop APP. Download and install it to your desktop from <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.wordpress.com\/desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apps.wordpress.com\/desktop\/<\/a>, and feel free to launch the APP. Once it opens, log into the WordPress.com account with your username and password.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3-300x124.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3-150x62.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_3.png 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\t\r\n  \r\n <\/li>\r\n <li>\r\n\t<p>Ready, now you can see the WordPress.com dashboard on your computer &#8211; all the required functionality settings are gathered in the left sidebar, while the right side of the screen shows your posts and an option to write more.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4-150x138.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4-768x705.png 768w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_4.png 889w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\t\r\n  \r\n <\/li>  \r\n <li>\r\n\t<p>During the post writing, the right-side panel also allows you to define the post status, post scheduling, categories and tags, featured image, etc.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/How_to_use_the_WordPress_desktop_APP_for_your_self-hosted_blog_5.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\t\r\n  \r\n <\/li> \r\n <li>\r\n\t<p>In addition, except for writing the posts, you may install or delete custom themes and plugins directly from the APP, manage the comments, create new users and much more. It&#8217;s a great tool for online-bloggers, as it even has the Sharing section that can be configured to automatically share new posts on social media. <\/p>\r\n <\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n <p>The only thing you should keep in mind, is that the APP is just the way to manage your live website, so it requires instant connection with the site &#8211; means, it can not save your posts to the computer, but needs Internet connection to publish the posts on the blog.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <p> That&#8217;s actually all, we hope this step-by-step guidance was useful for you. Feel free to play around with the settings, and wish you lot of subscribers! Also, you may check our <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> to learn more tweaks on how to manage your WordPress website as a guru of the web design!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>You may be looking for more website building options, so look through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/wordpress-themes.php\" title=\"WordPress Themes\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Themes<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to present you an extremely easy to follow guidance on how to use such an APP for your self-hosted blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":84643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2017,728],"tags":[1027,2645,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84672,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84637\/revisions\/84672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}