WordPress – The Missing Manual, by Matthew MacDonald
A good post title clearly announces what you are going to discuss (p. 95)
Make sure your content is worth reading (p. 105) e.g. interesting or useful
Add new content regularly –“avoid stale content.” But an observation, what’s wrong with that? — posts are dated. Maybe it depends on the topic.
Keep your content organized. “A good blog is ruthlessly arranged using categories and tags,” since browsing through monthly archives or searching for keywords in a post are not that convenient.
“###” that is. The formatting shortcuts are a new feature of WordPress 4.3.
Starting a bullet list with “*”
Asterisk that is, followed by space then a character
To get out of the list, hit two newlines
Here comes a numbered list:
Item one
Start it with digit followed by )
“1)” that is
End of my list.
Note, to get the link to open in a new window, I don’t see the option in the add link menu. I added “target=’_blank'” in “text” mode.
Dino the bike horn dinosaur
Since every post should have an image, I’ll provide a copy of my “sites icon” here. Sites icon is a feature that came along in WP 4.3.
By the way, how to center the caption? It looks like I’ll have to modify the theme’s CSS, to style figcaption or class=”wp-caption-text” to have style text-align: center. Maybe when we get to child themes? I’ve tagged this post with “learn” to indicate something TO learn. Maybe I can have an additional tag “learned” to indicate posts demonstrating things I’ve learned.
Paragraph Breaks vs. Newlines
Enter/newline starts a new paragraph
Shift-Enter gives you line breaks
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Yup, one less reason to go to HTML view. Does shift-enter work in JCE as well?
Spell Checking
Use Firefox: turn it on here: options > advanced > general > check my spelling as I tyyyype. (It took looking in options again to start checking.)
