As I’ve been doing this blogging thing a little while now and it seemed a good idea to pass on a few of the things that I’ve learned over the five years that I’ve been doing this. In easy and often geeky steps you’ll be taken through the steps and point out the pitfalls of taking your blog seed and growing it into something really amazing.
Call us bloggers but at the end of the day we write. Writers write and they need writing tools. Sounds easy , but how many writing tools do you know about, let alone use?
If we look at the tool bar that visible during the post writing process there’s a fair bit on there. Not by Microsoft Word standards but enough to keep us happy. There’s bold, italic, justification, strikethrough and underline functions. Along with this there’s font colours and special symbols.
With clear formatting, increase / decrease indent there’s enough to do what we need. To find out which are which is fairly straightforward but for guidance hover the mouse arrow over a symbol for a few seconds and you’re told what it is.
But is that it? Nope… If you’re a shortcuts geek then you’ll like this:
CTRL + A = Select All
Home = Go to start of line
HOME + HOME = Go to start of post
END = Go to end of line
CTRL + END = Go to end of post
CTRL + C = Copy selected text / media
CTRL + X = Cut selected text / media
CTRL + V = Paste into post / page
CTRL + F = Find text
CTRL + Z = Undo
CTRL + Y = Redo
This is by no means a full list of shortcuts – these are just the ones I use regularly to create posts, get about and find things. Are there any here that are new to you or ones you think I should have included.
Let me know.
What other WordPress issues are you facing? Let me know in the comments and it could very well turn into a post.
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This is very helpful but I have one question: on some other blogs, I have seen a little bar under the post where there is five stars and the readers get to rate the post. Do you have any idea how to do that? If not thats OK.
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I’ve had a look at this and it seems that post ratings are done with plugins, so unless you have a business subscription you won’t be able to do it. But there is also some PHP code floating around that could let you do it too.
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Ok. Thanks!!!
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No problem. I know I wasn’t useful but hey – can’t win them all 😀👍
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Yep! 😁 Thanks anyway!
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Cool 😀
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Thank you for this excellent post! Keep (pressing) on!
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Thanks, always doing my best to press on 😀
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Thanks for sharing.
You did an excellent job. Keep it up.
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Thank you 😀
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Great
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Thank you 🙂
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I love shortcut keys, use them all the time. If I can get away without using the mouse I am happy. I still find it strange when I meet people who don’t know the most basic, like copy and paste or save. Last year I met a young lady, about 17 who used the mouse to do all her copying/pasting – all right clicks. It looked almost painful to me 😛
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I can imagine, all that painful clicking… it show you that so many people don’t know the full power of the software they use .
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Helpful post. I’ve used the new editor and it has features the old one doesn’t have but it’s not necessarily a better editor. I use the old one for composition and formatting and the new one for keywords and metadata.
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I’ve not come across this yet, I still have this joy to come I think.
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Great tips! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks 🙂
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I noticed WordPress is promoting some kind of new, updated editor. I’m guessing they’ll roll that out soon, whether we want it or not, and I’m kind of nervous about it.
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I’ve not heard about this. I’ll have to look it up.
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Really? I’m surprised because I get a big, annoying message about it every time I log in.
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Really? I don’t have to log in that often. So maybe that’s why.
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Good advice Simon!
Gee, I know half of these…wow!
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Which means you didn’t know the other half. There’s loads more too 😀
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Knowing this much, for me is a moral victory…..I can Copy & Paste with as much confidence as I can..err… sharpening a pencil 😃
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Lol… Just think, in some yes time I could well be lost in the techno world lol
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Tron III?
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Yeah that’s about right lol
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The home and end buttons are new shortcuts for me but I will use them! Thanks as always Simon.
Rachael | https://rachaelstray.com/
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As long as something is new to someone, it makes it worth it. Always a pleasure Rachael. 😀
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