After you’ve used the Add Media button and inserted your picture, click on your image and a toolbar appears. By default your image has ‘No alignment‘ and will sit on the left side of your screen. Text does not wrap around the image. If you start typing immediately after inserting the image, the text will […]
Website Cache
Browser Cache Browser cache (or Temporary Internet Files) are files saved locally. When you visit a site your browser will check to see if it already has a copy of the page and all its files (buttons\icons, photos, JavaScript etc) cached already. If so and the file hasn’t been modified, instead of downloading again your […]
Images and SEO
File Name Before you upload your image it’s worth taking some time to name it – simply describe the subject matter of the picture. Search engines can’t decipher the content based on the picture alone and will look for keywords within your image file name. Keep file names short and unique. Make sure you use […]
Shortlinks
Keyword URLs which are good for SEO and easy to read, can be long and difficult to type out in full. Shortlinks are, as the name implies, short links. They forward to the long URL. Their popularity has grown due to the rise of social networks such as Twitter, where every character counts. Create a […]
Revisions
Each time you click ‘Save Draft’ or ‘Update’ in the Publish meta box, a revision is saved. Revisions allow you to roll back to an earlier version of your post or page if needed. Undo for WordPress! WordPress will also create an autosave every minute. So if you lose your power, the browser crashes or […]
Emoji characters in WordPress
WordPress (4.2) supports Han characters from the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages – making it easier for the international community to use WordPress in their native language. A spin off from this update to the core files sees WordPress also offering support for a range of other character sets. This includes hieroglyphics, musical and mathematical […]
Headings in WordPress
By default, when working in the Visual Editor and writing your epic, your text is styled as a normal paragraph. Headings are useful to present content in an organised and structured way. If you want to create a heading then you can select Heading 1 through to Heading 6. The higher the value the more important […]
Log out of all WordPress sessions
If you have forgotten to sign out of your WordPress site on a public computer or lost your smartphone with logged in WordPress access, you can sign out of WordPress remotely from everywhere, but your current session, in just a single click. After logging in to the backend, click on Profile in the menu on […]
Comments and Pingbacks
What are Comments? Comments are enabled by default. Your visitors can add their thoughts under your post. To review you can access Comments from the back end of WordPress. Any Comments that are currently waiting for moderation will be highlighted in pink. Move your mouse over an existing comment and you’ll see the action links […]
Disable or Enable the Full Height Editor
As you write a new post in WordPress by default, the box you type in expands automatically. This is great, except if you have written a very long article then to reach some of the meta boxes below (for example Theme SEO Settings, Custom Fields, Author – your boxes may be different) it means you […]
