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ok im gonna pick up right where we left off in the last tutorial which was
create a post or page this is the first advanced tutorial for
editing a post or page im just gonna include the second row of
formatting tools if you don't see these tools here then you can
click on this and/or show or hide kitchen sink
button right there which you should see either way
so let's start with
the heading tools here we're gonna
create a heading here this is just a way to break up your content make it easier
to read
so I click on heading 2 you see I
actually clicked on it twice because sometimes it doesn't
catch the first time it's a little bug in WordPress
I can also have another heading right here
and then kind of offset
this from that and then you can go all the way down the line of
headings here and then you can break up this content in a way that
kinda makes sense to you and makes sense to the reader you don't have to have the
whole line highlighted you can just click anywhere within that line and
change to heading and if you don't want the heading any more than you can change
it back to paragraph
will do that the next to here is underline
oh, and before I move forward make sure that you skip header
heading 1 you don't want to use that heading 1 is used for the title of the
page
and search engines want to only find one heading 1
per page you have two then it won't know which one to use and it will use
neither one and it might even punish you in the search results so keep in mind
not to use heading one
in the content because it's already been used other formatting tools
like bold and underline are up here you have, I'm sorry bold and italic are up here
you also have underline down in this level you can see that
you can have a paragraph justified so you can see
over here that space fills in and if this paragraph were longer you'd see that
you know, all this text would line up, you can see it here as well
in the blockquote you can change the color of text
I wouldn't recommend using this because
it gets really annoying to the reader if they're text is changing colors
and it's not a good way to call out information
so unless you really have to just don't use that
I'm going to skip these for the moment and
check out remove formatting if I decide I don't want this
colored text and I don't want the underline I can highlight these
items and then click Remove formatting and then the
underline and the green text are gone
but I keep my other information in there
and keep the words intact it does not affect
links if you wanna break a link then you click on this unlink button
or you can change the link by clicking on the link again
you can change it to either a different page on your site or you can just type
in the URL and change the title
you can also change whether opens a link in a new tab or window
the next tool here is insert custom character that's pretty self-explanatory
you can see these custom characters if I click on one then it will add it, there's 3/4
and then you have indent and outdent so I can indent this whole paragraph
and then outdent again I also have undo
can see it going back to the indents and outdents
removing the 3/4 and redo I can go back through the steps
as well and then there's help
so now back to these paste tools
I'm going to go to the bottom here and scroll back up
go to the bottom the content here though and
enter twice to get out of the unordered list and then
I'm gonna jump over to word because
it's important to note that WordPress is pretty good at
copying things out of word which is
unlike a lot of other content management systems if you've ever used anything
else
so if I just clicking here I just copied those things from were using control-C
and I can control-V and paste
all these things right into here that would basically do a similar thing
that paste from word does so let me undo and show you
if I click paste from word and i can do control-V here
and then insert and I get the same result
it really is the same result
however if I just want to paste as plain text I can click on that
hit the same button and I get kind of a different result this is has no
formatting
it just has the line breaks and right now this is check to keep the line
breaks but I don't have to
if I don't then it comes in as a huge block of text which
if I'm gonna go and change on the formatting and I just want the raw
material of
the text then I might wanna uncheck this and then insert
and go through and say okay well
I want my name to be
heading 2 and then I want my address to be
want this whole first-line including the domain
I want all those to be heading 6
and now I didn't hit enter before I did that so I have all this to be heading 6 as well
but I can easily change that back
to paragraph but you see I could go through all these different
different pieces content here and break them up again
and reformat them it would be easier to do it this way that would if I pasted all of it
with the formatting it had currently so that about covers
this part of the advanced tutorial just these formatting tools on the second row
here
so keep looking for my next
advanced tutorial on editing post or page in WordPress
Thanks!