WordPress- A brief introduction

WordPress is a content management system and tool for blogging based on MySQL and PHP, free of cost. As we all know, the quality of the content has acquired an important position in attracting more visitors to your website as it helps generate traffic on your blog. Content Management System plays a vital role in WordPress; thus, it is necessary to understand it properly.

Handling Content in WordPress-

This is the most essential part, and it covers the following sections:

Editing of Content- Writing content means simply typing text. At the end of each paragraph, pressing the enter key generates the option of paragraph formatting, and more formatting options are available on the text editor. These are the essential options for editing the content. More functions can also be edited by pressing the advanced toolbar icon on the right side of the option.

Editing Icons- Editing Icons are applied to the selected text to give it a special effect. Following is a list of icons with their functions:

• Bold – Show the text in bold.
• Italics – Show the text in Italics.
• Ordered lists – The auto number of the text
• Unordered lists – create bullet points
• Strike-Through – add a line over a text
• Align Left – aligns text to the Left
• Align Right – aligns text to the Right
• Align Centre – brings your text to the centre
• Split Post – Split the written Post
• Add Hyperlink – create any website link on the text.
• Remove Hyperlink – to remove the Hyperlink
• Blockquote – to create the blockquotes.
• Spell Check – For checking the spelling
• Underline – Underline the text
• Indent – to indent the text
• Font Colour – apply the colour to your text
• Outdent – Undo an indent
• Advanced toolbar – Editing of text in detail

Writing Content in WordPress

Enter the WordPress admin panel and click the Post option to write the content. Here, you will get a list of options, and to write a new post, press the Add new button. A box will open where you can type or paste the written text. To report a page, click on the Page tab.

Writing post – Here, the title of the Post is written on the top; it should be descriptive, unique, innovative, and creative to attract more no. of visitors. The title will become a linked text to link the posts to other pages.

A permalink editor may assign a short name to a URL. If work is done in MS Word, copying and pasting the same may transfer almost all the formatting in the WordPress text editor and generate an un-user-friendly code. This can become simple by pasting the text in the notepad as the content’s format will change, and then data can be quickly posted in WordPress.
Options for posting content- Several options, such as tags, encryption, categories, trackbacks, pings and comments, and password protection, are also available.

Publishing of Posts – Your Post will be saved on an automated basis as a draft by WordPress; you can save or publish the same, as required. The preview option lets you see how the Post looks after publication. Click on the print button to print the Post on the web or choose a date you want to publish the same. The list of the posts will show published and unpublished data on the content.

Writing of Pages – Pages are not chronologically organized like posts. They are like the Contact Us or About bUs page.
Writing a page on WordPress is the same as writing a post. The title assigned appears on the top of the published page and can be changed using the editing feature.

Page Options – Options for a page are available below the publishing section on the right side of the text editor, such as page parent, page order, page template, page author, and filtration of the comments.

Saving and publishing the page on WordPress is the same as posting.

Image posting workout in WordPress

This is a simple and easy process. The image upload feature is easily managed in a page or post editor. To post the image on any page or Post, first put the cursor where you want the same to show and then press the Upload image button in the options of the text editor. Two possibilities are offered: you may browse from the location where images are stored in your system or copy the link of posted pictures from the internet.

Image positioning in the Post – no options are available for this. A caption or title to the image can be added here. You need to select the image position with its size. The images are in pixels, and uploading pictures of small size related to the content is suggested.

Overall, posting content in WordPress is unique and very interesting.