Once you have your WordPress account, have selected a theme and have added whatever plug-ins and widgets you would like, it’s time to start creating content for your blog. If you have been thinking about creating your blog for a while, you probably have lots of ideas. 
 
It’s a good idea to create a “tickle file” that you can use to record blog ideas as they come to you. This can be a Word file on your laptop, a notepad on your smartphone, or even a paper notebook that you can carry around with you in your pocket. As an idea comes to you, wherever you are, jot it down. This will serve as a great resource tool later when you are looking for new blog topics. 
 
Before you start publishing your blog posts, you probably want to have a few timeless “canned” posts that you can keep on hand for when you are too busy to write or are struggling to come up with new ideas. These can help bridge any content gap that you have.  
 
How Often Should You Post? 
 
 When you first start your blog, you probably are brimming with ideas and will want to publish all the time. That’s fine, but just remember that a month or six down the line, you may not have as much enthusiasm for writing on your blog as you do when you are just starting out, so if you get your readers accustomed to receiving a new blog post every day, it may be 

 
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hard to keep that pace later. A better plan is to start out with just a couple of blogs posts per week. That way you aren’t committing to a publishing schedule that you may not be able to sustain. 
 
 You should try to stick to the same general publishing schedule all the time because as you grow a loyal readership following, they will begin to look for your blog on certain days. For example, if you publish a new blog post every Monday and Friday, they can expect to see fresh content on those days.