WordPress Codex Reference
Using the Post Editor
Below I have highlighted certain areas that will be of great use to editing the website.
Green – Upload/Insert Media
- The highlighted (from left to right) buttons are: Image upload, video upload, music file upload
- Clicking these will bring up a menu with self explanatory directions to upload and insert images
- For information please see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Images
Blue – Advanced Editing Menu (or “the kitchen sink”)
- The most important items in this drop-down menu are the “paste from Microsoft Word” and “paste from Text Editor”
- Clicking these will bring up a window allowing you to paste from the previously mentioned applications. This is very important because the styles applied in Word will not apply if pasted directly into the Post Editor.
- Be sure and use these buttons for pasting from Microsoft Word or a rich Text Editor
Red – “Read More”
- Some Pages (Research, News) will need a page break to activate the “read more” tag.
- Clicking this button, where ever the cursor is, will cause a … line to appear in the post editor and once updated will cause the “read more” tag to appear
Yellow – Categories
- If you are adding to “News” the post will not be inserted into the News Sidebar without applying the “News Category”
- To indicate where the post should go select from the corresponding category on the right (yellow in the screenshot below)
- This will cause the post to appear on that Page (note: Biography and Teaching are pages, not Categories, so to update those you would have to edit the Pages, which can be found on the right sidebar under “Pages“)
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