Creating & Editing WordPress Posts

Recently, a client called me and asked how he could remove the extra line between copy that was appearing in the visual editor. For some reason, I must admit that I’m not sure why, when writing a post in the visual editor a return adds in another line between copy making it seem as if there is a double space. To remove this you can delete the extra break in the HTML editor of WordPress. This short video shows you how.

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When I hand off a WordPress site I always have a tutorial on how to use the platform and walk the new owners through some of the basics — sort of like I’m doing with this video series. This video covers how to add a link to a WordPress post (it’s the same for a page) when using the WYSIWYG editor. I cover adding a link to text, and to an image. Additionally, I talk briefly about opening  a link in the same window, and opening a link in a new window, or tab. It is meant for the WordPress novice.

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In this WordPress video tutorial I show users how to paste content from a text document. Some folks feel more comfortable writing content outside of the WordPress editor, and that’s fine. If using a word processing document like Word, I recommend saving the file as a straight text document with no formatting. This will make it easier to format and control styles in your posts. Working in word processing programs, and copying data from them, in their native format, often leads to messy transitions, and weird styles that then take time to sort out and clean up. This video will help save users much time and frustration if they do work in an editor outside of WordPress.

This video is intended for the WordPress novice.

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Please, as always, send me your comments, so that I can make future videos, better.

Often, the first thing people ask about when they take control of their new WordPress site is “how do I add an image?” In this primer video I show to insert and edit images in WordPress posts (it’s the same for pages).

I demonstrate how to upload an image from my desktop, float it left, resize it via the edit image button, and then resize it via the WYSIWYG editor, center it and then move it back to the left. I also briefly explain “title” and “caption.”

This video is intended for the WordPress novice.

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Another video in the how-to-use-WordPress series in which I cover some of the basics of editing, and changing content in a post. I’m focusing on posts right now because they are the most basic content in the WordPress universe, and all of the things I show in these post videos also applies to creating pages — the interface and the tools are almost identical. I’ll cover the differences between posts and pages — which have to do with tags, categories and page order — in a subsequent video.

This video is intended for the WordPress novice.

Thanks for watching, and as always, send me your comments so I can try and improve these videos.

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Here’s the second installment in our WordPress tutorial series. This video covers creating a post with a brief overview of the editing tool bar. Another topic covered in this video is the Publish/Preview/Save a Draft module as well as permalinks (slugs) and how to edit them. This is intended as a primer for the WordPress newcomer.

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Just to reiterate, these videos are being created in conjunction with a project in which the end users will have varying levels of knowledge and comfort with WordPress. As always, I welcome your feedback.