WordPress Hints & Tricks
Well, I’m learning more as I go along with this WordPress Blog.
I learned, thanks to eak, that many HTML tags do not work in comments. I’m not sure if this is because I’ve got something set wrong, or if that’s just a ‘feature’ of the WordPress software.
I’ll have to experiment and read their helpful and fairly extensive support site.
So, a couple of quick pointers I’ve discovered about WP & some hints for the less HTML educated:
- This tag doesn’t work in comments. That is the ul-li tags, the one that makes this a nice bulleted list. Almost all HTML tags work for posts (if you have author rights to post a new discussion) and they work when you edit (if you have editor rights), but not in comments you post (no matter what rights you have).
(What you can edit and do on this Blog depends on what level of user you are. We can talk about that, let me know if you’d like to be more involved and I can promote you (No, there’s no money involved in this promotion, but nice try
- If you’d like to post pictures or media, email it to me and I’ll FTP it up to my server (Shamless plug
and link it where you want it linked. You, of course, can email me any details. - If you don’t know much about HTML, but would like to start, go here.
- If you just want a few basic formatting options, here ya go:
1. All HTML formatting, at least basic formatting that’s used in this Blog, is accomplished by enclosing the text (or whatever) in HTLM tags.
There must be open tags before and closing tags after text.
Tags are enclosed in “< " ">” pointy brackets.
(I have to replace the ‘pointy brackets’ “< " & ">” in this discussion with regualr brackets “(” & “)” or you won’t be able to see the code, but just pretend they’re pointy, until YOU type them, then you have to do more then pretend, you have to hit Shift + “,” or + “.” respectively
ie- to bold something (b)BOLD(/b) would bold the work BOLD.
2. Some basic tags are b=bold, i=italics, ul=unordered list, then nest each point, or list item between li & /li tags.
3. Closing tags always have a / after the open pointy bracket and before the tag ‘word’.
To create Hyperlinks, or links to other places on the Internet, enclose the link word/picture in an a or ‘anchor’ tag with the ‘href’ (Hyperlink Reference) attribute like this: (a href=”http://www.naker.us”)My Site(/a) (Notice the URL(Uniform Resource Locator) or Web address, (easily copied from your browser’s address bar), needs to be in ” ’s.
4. To change the color, and a lot of other things I won’t go into here, use the ‘font’ tag, with the color attribute like this: (font color=”red”)RED(/font), my favorite color (see WordPress converts emoticons too!
If you are more artistic and use colors like Mauve and Fuchsia (I had to look up how to spell it too and I have no idea what color it is (I could look it up, but that would spoil the fun) , then you need to use RGB (Red Green Blue, like the old TV’s) Hexadecimal (1-16, or 0-ABCDEF) ‘numbers’ to describe the colors. ie- Red is FF0000. That means lots of red FF (the highest Hex ‘number’) and no green 00 or blue 00. If you want to make purple, you’d add some blue: FF00FF (or you could type purple), but you can’t type Mauve. It’s made from FF9999, or maybe it’s CC9999 or FFCCCC, no that’s Dusty Rose
I used to sell custom designed shopping bags and packaging materials- such as giftwrap, ribbons and bows and these are the type of arguments my vendors and customers would have. It was all pink to me.
You can experiment or use your graphic editor such as Paint Shop Pro (no, people who use Photoshop already know this stuff)
You can also go here and have fun.
Go here to learn more about this or almost any topic- I love Wikipedia!