Once you’ve added content to your post/page you have the option of saving as a draft or publishing. Clicking the Save Draft button will simply save your post/page. This is handy if you would like to come back at a later date to add more content or if you’re simply not ready to publish yet. […]
Crop an Image
Select Image Go to Media > Library and select the image to edit. Click the Edit Image button located below the image. OR When in a post\page click on the Add Media button, select the image to edit. Click the Edit Image link on the right. Crop Image Click and drag to outline the crop […]
Changing the Visibility of Posts in WordPress
You can change the visibility of the post/page by clicking the Edit link just to the right of Visibility: within the Publish panel. Public: is the default and means the post/page is visible to everyone. There is also an option to make the Post ‘sticky’ (Stick this post to the front page). By default posts […]
Screen Options
In the back end admin area, the Screen Options tab appears in the top right of every screen where it can be used. It’s next to Help. It can be used to change your own personal working area to suit yourself and display, hide from view and customise sections. When clicked, the Screen Options menu […]
Hyperlinks and SEO in WordPress
The World Wide Web is based on hyperlinks – links on a page which point to other web pages. Often we explore the web ourselves by clicking on hyperlinks. When adding links always prioritise the needs of your visitor and create only if they serve a purpose and add value. Only link to content that […]
Differences between Categories and Tags
Categories and Tags are both ways to organise your content to make it easier for your visitors to navigate your site and find related information. Always think of your visitors first when organising content. Categories create an ‘outline’ of your site, and are a way of identifying the main areas of interest. They are often […]
SEO: WordPress Title
Optimise your Titles The title is important for website SEO. A title is one of the few elements you can carve out yourself to entice searchers to click through to your post or page. Google shows the first 60-70 characters of the page title in its search results, so your titles should be around this […]
Pasting Text
If you’ve already created content in a word processor such as Microsoft Word you can copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) this into the Visual Editor. The Visual Editor tab is WYSIWYG; What You See Is What You Get. It may not copy over the styling as you’d expect though (as you’re copying behind the scenes […]
More Tag
If you are writing a long post and you want to decide where the excerpt should end then you can use this button. Excerpts of your blog posts are shown on various parts of your site; such as the home page and archives.
WordPress SEO Slug Tip
Use short permalinks. If possible use three to four key words in your slug, and you should try and put the most important keywords first. Try and remove so called stop words – like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘how’, ‘what’, ‘is’ etc (as search engines don’t take them into account) and also numbers, (which are ignored […]
