VKontakte Wall: A Complete Guide

bitheeranidas00

The VKontakte wall is understood as the user's personal space, where they can share their thoughts and events happening in their lives. However, this is not just an endless feed of posts, the block is much more interesting. The platform developers regularly add new functions and features. Therefore, over time, the wall has turned into a platform where each user can declare themselves. Users can run a lifestyle blog, position themselves as experts, and also promote goods and services.

When you log into the profile of any user of the social network "VKontakte", the first thing you will notice is their news feed. With this tool, it is easy to understand who a person is and how they position themselves, their occupation and hobbies. Depending on the settings, page visitors can like, comment, repost entries, leave their entries on the user's wall and much more.

Information of different formats is posted on the wall: photos, videos, gifs, posts, articles, files and music. You can do this either on your own behalf or by reposting. For example, you liked an article in some group and using the "Share" function you add it to your wall. By the way, any post can be pinned, and it will be shown first.

Where is the wall
The VK social network has gone through a lot of transformations. Before 2010, there were no wordpress web design agency likes, comments, or reposts, and to respond to a user's post, you had to go to a friend's page and create a response in the form of a new post. The feed did not scroll down, but scrolled sideways.

Over time, the application and the web version of the social network vk.com were improved. After another update, users began to resent. At some point, a meme even appeared: "Durov, bring back the wall." But the trick is that the news feed did not disappear anywhere, it was simply moved, and new functions and capabilities were added.

Currently, the VK wall is not highlighted as a separate category. To open it, you will have to perform a number of actions that may differ depending on your device. For example, to open your feed on your phone, follow the instructions.



Open the app and sign in to your account.
Go to your profile by clicking on the icon with your avatar.
Scroll down the page that opens to the “Posts” section, this is your wall.
In the same way, you can open the wall of any other user from your smartphone and, by scrolling through it, look at all of his posts in chronological order.

To view the wall from a computer or laptop, follow the instructions.

Open your browser, go to the official VKontakte website and log in to your account.
Click on your name in the upper right corner.
Select the "My Page" section.
Under the block with photos you will see the line “What’s new with you?”, and under it is your feed.
To open the group wall, you need to go to the mobile application or the official website, and then go to the “Community” section. In the window that opens, select the desired group and click on its name. Next, the news feed will open in front of you.

As you can see, it is not difficult to find the VK wall. However, there is no chance that tomorrow it will not be moved to another place or will not disappear altogether, because during the existence of the social network this element has undergone many changes.

How to make a publication


You can make a post either on your page or in another user's profile. To make a publication on your PC, follow these steps.

Open your profile and scroll down to the block with the post “What’s new with you?”
Click on it, then a field will appear where you can record the news and attach a file to it, such as a photo, audio or video.
After creating a post, click on the arrow in the upper right corner, and the news will appear in your feed.
If you want to make a post on someone else's wall, go to their profile and create a post in the "Write something" section.

To post to your page from your phone, follow these steps:

Go to your profile and scroll down to the posts block.
Click on the "Create Entry" button.
Next, the editor will open, in the field "What's new with you?" enter the text, and then set up privacy, publication time and topic. You can add pictures, music, videos and much more to the post.
You can make a publication from your phone not only in the "Profile" section, but also in the news feed. To use this method, open the main page and click the "Create a post" button at the top of the screen.

To post something from your phone on another user's page, go to their profile and click the "Write something" button.

IMPORTANT! You can only make a post in another user's profile if they allow this action in their settings.

What to write about
You can publish anything on VK, as long as it doesn't violate community rules. For example, you can:

add a file, map, graffiti, product or survey;
format your text as a full-fledged article;
add a picture or photo;
add audio or video;
write simple text;
add emoticons;
create a poster.
NOTE: The size of the post varies from one character or smiley to 15,000 characters. If the post is longer, then format it as an article. As for images, the best format is JPG and the resolution is 1440 × 1080 px.

When creating a post, don't forget about the settings. The main ones are comments and notifications, but you can also choose who will see your post: all users, only friends or close people. To schedule the release of content, determine a specific day and time of publication. The program also offers to choose the topic of the publication from the list, this contributes to promotion.