10 tips to make wordpress your friend

How to Make WordPress Your Friend

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Tip 1: Take notes

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Tip 2: If you can use WORD and you are not afraid of the internet,

you can use WordPress

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WORD

WordPress

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Use HEADINGS not just colored text and bold

This is the “kitchen Sink” icon. Use it to show two line WYSIWYG editor

Copy and Paste Issues

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Content pasted directly into content editor

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Copy and Paste Issues

Here’s what it looks like published

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Copy and Paste Issues

Here’s what the code looks like. All that yellow is code

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Copy and Paste Issues

Indent / Outdent / Blockquote

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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote

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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote

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Indent / Outdent / Blockquote

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The little used: Eraser ToolAnd HELP!

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Help: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Tip 3: Backup and Update

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Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want

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No Alignment

Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want

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Left

Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want

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Right

Tip 4: The images won’t go where I want

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Center

Tip 5: Weird Spacing

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It looks like this

but you want it to look like this

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Remove the highlighted parts shown in the Text View

Tip 5: Weird Spacing

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See? Gone!

Tip 5: Weird Spacing

See? Gone!

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Tip 5a: Use Shift + Enter to avoid the extra line breaks all together!

Tip 5: Weird Spacing

Tip 6: Plugins

Just because you install a plugin does not make it do anything!

Screen Options

Tip 7: How to find what you can’t

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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on

Using Revisions Finding them in the side

bar

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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on

Finding them at the bottom of the page

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Tip 8: Oh, Rats! I lost what I was working on

Choose to which to revert

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Tip 9: When you’re lost and confused

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Tip 9: When you’re lost and confused

Ask the CODEX (codex.wordpress.org)

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How to add a picture to a post

Search the codex.wordpress.org

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Results Page

Search the codex.wordpress.org

Tip 10: Practice, Practice, Practice

Make a new page .. Save as draft Add content and imagesSee what works

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Go ahead: Push the buttons. You won’t break it!

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