As easy and well-designed as WordPress is, not everything is necessarily Ntuitive or where you might expect it to be. Here’s a starter set of items I’ll call “Easy to Miss Settings, Options, and How-To’s.” Please comment below if you have questions or suggestions for future “Easy to Miss” posts.
Image Attributes: Add a border; Add/Reduce a margin
When you upload an image into the WP Media Library, you’re given the opportunity to set some attributes for that image like size, alignment, title, and alt tag. But after you’ve uploaded the image and placed it into a Post or Page, you can do a lot more.
Click on an image in your visual editor window and two icons appear in the upper left corner of the image. The icon on the right will delete the image. The icon on the left opens an editing window in a tab labeled Edit Image, with another tab labeled Advanced Settings. Select the Advanced Settings tab for additional image properties where you can set a width value for a Border, as well as set values for either/both verticle and horizontal spaces (which adds margin to the image).
If you can’t seem to get the vertical alignment of an image to line up with adjacent text, play with the verticle space values. Add a positive value in pixels (usually 5 works for me) to bring the image down to align with the first line of text if you place a thumbnail, for example, in the upper left corner of a post. But you can also add a negative value to reduce the vertical spacing.
With the additional 5 pixels of vertical space (margin), the top border of the photo (inside the image to the left) now aligns with the top row of text in the image. I’ve also added 5 pixels of vertical space (margin) to the screenshot image so that the top of this image aligns horizontally with the top line of text in this paragraph (“With the additional …”).
How to Exit Fullscreen Edit
If you try the Fullscreen toggle button on the visual editor to write without the distractions of the Dashboard interface, it’s not obvious how you can exit or toggle back to the normal view.
There’s a one-row editing ribbon that appears on the top of the Full-Screen view for a few seconds, but then disappears. To make it re-appear, just move your cursor to the top of the screen, and there’s an Exit fullscreen link you can toggle.
Quick Edit – Sticky Post
The Quick Edit selection (on the All Posts and All Pages listings) is easy to overlook if you’re in the habit of automatically opening the full Edit window for Posts and Pages. But for most items, Quick Edit can achieve the same task more quickly than Edit, especially if you need to make a similar edit in several posts. And to make a post “sticky,” or make it appear at the top of your blog page, you just check the box in the Quick Edit options.
Other things you can Quick Edit: Title, Slug (i.e., Permalink), Date Published, Password Protect, Category, Tags, Allow Pingbacks, Allow Comments, Make Post Sticky.
Display/Hide the Admin Bar
The settings to display or hide the Admin Bar at the top of your Dashboard and your live site (when you’re logged in), are on the User | Profile page.
Set Links to Existing Posts and Pages
If you want to create a link to a Post or Page you’ve already created, you don’t have to re-type the full url. Click on the Insert/Edit Link icon in the visual editor, then expand the carrot next to Or link to existing content.
Give it a second, and the titles of your most recent Posts and Pages will appear below. Just click on the title of the Post or Page you want to link to, and the url and title fields are populated for you.
If the Post or Page you’re looking for doesn’t appear in the initial list, use the vertical scroll bar to keep cycling through your previous content, in reverse chronological order. Or you can enter a key word or phrase in the title into the Search box.
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