Medium? Maybe you are still not familiar with this blogging platform, of course you are curious, what is Medium? Medium is an online writing publishing platform. Medium as a forum or blog platform does not have much difference like existing blogs, such as WordPress, Tumblr, or Google’s Blogspot.
All of these platforms have the ability to manage content on a site. So that content creators can freely use the platform. How to write on Medium is quite simple and easy for beginner. We can do this in a computer browser or on a smartphone. Here are the steps:
- Open the medium.com site in your desktop browser.
- Click the Get Started button to create a new account.
- Choose one of two ways to register, using Google or Facebook.
- If you use Gmail, you will be taken to the Google account login page. Please login to the google account that you will use
- if you successfully logged in, indicating that the account has been successfully created. Then, click Dive in to proceed to the next step.
- Choose 3 topics that you like, then click Start reading
How to Create a New Post on Medium
- Click your profile icon, then click New Story
- Next, write the title and content of the article. When you’re done, click the needle next to the Publish menu.
- n the right panel, fill in the tags field, connect to Twitter and Facebook if you want to share your writing there. Finally click the Publish button.
- But if you are not ready to publish an article, for example you want to add a touch to your article, that’s fine. Return to the editor, then highlight the text to display formatting options such as bold, italics, links, text size, quotes and more.
- You can also add an image, just give a blank space by pressing enter, then place the cursor until a plus (+) icon appears. Click the plus button and you’ll instantly see options to add photos, videos, and more.
How to Schedule a Post
Posts can be published whenever you want, but if you want to schedule them for a specific day and time, Medium provides the tools to do so. Here are the steps:
- Still in the editor window, tap the arrow in the Publish menu, until a new dropdown panel appears. Click Scheduling – Non – Schedule to be published on, specify the date and time and then click the Save button
- Medium also provides advanced tools for rearranging any story that you write. Next to the Publish or Scheduled button, there is a three-dot button which when clicked will display a number of additional tools for example to view revision history, visibility, licenses, delete stories, edit titles and links.
- Meanwhile, to view a collection of stories that have been previously created, you can click the profile icon – Stories. There, you can find articles saved in drafts or already published
Those are how to write on Medium. For you guys who want to try a new platform for blogging, Medium can be an option, or for you who are just learning to blog, Medium can also be an option because it has very simple features.
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