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  • Posts screen

    The Posts Screen provides the facility to manage all the Posts in a blog. Via this Screen, Posts can be edited, deleted, and viewed. Filtering, and searching, also makes it easy to quickly find Posts matching certain criteria. A powerful bulk edit feature allows Posts to be edited in bulk (en masse) allowing fields such…

  • Use automated installation

    Although WordPress is very easy to install, you can use one of the one-click auto-installers typically available from hosting companies. The most popular auto-installers, APS, Fantastico, Installatron, and Softaculous are described here. APS (Plesk) If you’re using the Plesk control panel, you have two options: one-click quick install or custom install which allows you to…

  • Introduction to Blogging

    You are living in the age of technology, and you would have encountered terms like blogging, blog, and bloggers. People often need clarification about these terms. This document will discuss the concepts associated with blogging and explain the role of content and comments in the quality of blogging. What is blogging? Blogging deals with the regular…

  • What is an excerpt? (Classic Editor)

    What is an excerpt Excerpt is an optional text associated to a Post. Most of the time, it is used as the Post summary. Not finding the Excerpt editing box? Check your Post’s Screen Options. Regarding the Theme you are using on your site, Excerpts can be displayed on different pages (search results, archives, etc.).…

  • Sticky Posts (Classic Editor)

    Sticky Posts is a feature that places a post at the top of the front page of posts, keeping it there until new sticky posts are published. Note: Sticky Post is only available for the built-in post type post and not for custom post types. How to stick a post Select the post you want to stick…

  • Write code in your posts (Classic Editor)

    Whether you write plugins or hacks for WordPress, or you want to add bits and pieces of code about your own WordPress site or other programming code like HTML, CSS, PHP, or JavaScript, putting code in your post that looks like code, but doesn’t behave like code, is a frequent challenge for bloggers. By default,…

  • Customize date and time format

    Customizing the Time and Date Format Certain WordPress tag functions are used to display or return date and time information; the_date() and the_time() are examples of this. By default, these functions will display or return date and time in format as it is set in Administration > Settings > General. This is the place where…

  • The WordPress Gallery (Classic Editor)

    Note: This document is for the Classic Editor. If you are using the block-editor on your site, the Gallery Block is documented on this page. Overview Image galleries are a great way to share groups of pictures on your WordPress site. The Create Gallery feature of the WordPress media uploader allows you to add a…

  • Settings Permalinks screen

    Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual pages and blog posts, as well as your category and tag archives. A permalink is the web address used to link to your content. The URL to each post should be permanent and never change — hence the name permalink. The Settings Permalinks Screen allows you to choose…

  • Inserting images into posts and pages (Classic Editor)

    Overview When creating or editing a WordPress page or blog post, you can easily add images at any time using the WordPress Media Uploader tool. Here’s how to add an image, step-by-step, using the media uploader: Step 1 – Placing your cursor In order to add an image to your page or post, you must…