How To Guide
Information posts on using WordPress
Website Font Selection
I am often asked, “What fonts can I use on my website?”
The answer isn’t always very easy. It depends. Web sites are rendered by using fonts that are installed on the visitor’s computer. While font selection in artwork can be anything, selectable text on the web page is limited to which font family you use. [...]
Using the WordPress Visual Editor
The visual editor provides a semi-WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content editor that allows you to easily create, edit and format your blog content in a view similar to that of a word processor.
This is the default editing mode of WordPress.com, but if it does not appear to be enabled, you can [...]
Picking Colors for your Small Business Website
There are as many color tools as there are colors! Putting together the right colors for your website is likely the best the most difficult part of your website design.
Since color select is personal, we are suggesting you use the Color Scheme Designer to pick the colors for your new website!
Select a color along the [...]
Category Management
Categories are a way of grouping related posts together. A post can belong to multiple categories, and categories can be organised into a hierarchy.
Note that WordPress also provides tags – you may wish to use these in addition to categories. Each post must belong to at least one category.
Categories are added to posts using the [...]
Categories vs. Tags
Once upon a time, WordPress.com used to only allow categories to be used.
These allowed for a broad grouping of post topics, but when you wanted to describe a post in more specific terms, more categories were required. That lead to very long category lists inside the blog and very long lists in Categories Widgets. It [...]
Posting Source Code
While WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to use potentially dangerous code on your blog, there is a way to post source code for viewing. We have created a shortcode you can wrap around source code that preserves its formatting and even provides syntax highlighting for certain languages, like so:
#button {
font-weight: bold;
border: 2px solid #fff;
}
To [...]
Adding HTML Code to Your Post or Page
WordPress.com is a type of shared environment, where all users are running off of the same software. This is great because it allows us at Automattic to update millions of blogs at the same time with a single click. It means we can fix bugs or offer new features very quickly, which is a win [...]
Splitting Content
There are several different ways to split content in your blog posts and pages
The More Tag
NextPage
Page Jumps
Excerpts
The More Tag
You can split the posts of your blog so that only the first part of the post is displayed on the home and archive (monthly, category, etc…) views. When you do this, a link will be placed [...]
Microsoft Word
Problems
Microsoft Word is a fine word processor for producing documents to be shared or printed, with a wealth of print-based options for indexing, and producing table of contents. As a web publishing tool it is a little less than ideal and produces very messy HTML. The same applies when using OpenOffice, or other word processors.
When [...]
Post vs. Page
There are very key differences between posts and pages in your WordPress blog.
Posts
Posts are listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home page or on the posts page if you have set one in Settings > Reading. If you have created any sticky posts, those will appear before the other posts. Posts can be [...]
