The archive block makes it easy for you and your readers to easily access previous months or years posts by organizing your previously published posts by month.. For example, you could add an Archives block to a page and clicking on the March 2019 archive link would display all your posts written in that month….Continue Reading Archives Block
Category: Posts & Pages
Copy a Post
The Duplicate Post plugin is a quick way to copy a post, or page, including the title, contents, tags and categories so you can re-use an existing post easily with minimal effort. Using Duplicate Posts Once you’ve activated the Duplicate Post plugin in Plugins > All you use it as follows: 1. Go to Posts > All Posts (or Pages > All Pages)…Continue Reading Copy a Post
Hide Posts
Occasionally there are situations where you may want to hide some posts. The most common reason for hiding posts is you don’t want your current students to see the posts from the previous year but you still want to be able to refer to them. The easiest way to hide old posts is to change the posts…Continue Reading Hide Posts
Hide Pages
Occasionally there are situations where you may want to hide some pages from appearing in the top navigation area of your blog or in the pages widget in your sidebar. Hide from the Navigation menu The most common reason for hiding a page is you’ve set up a static front page and your theme has…Continue Reading Hide Pages
Delete Posts and Pages
The Trash feature allows you to delete items by moving them to your trash folder where you can restore it within 30 days from the time the item was trashed. This feature is designed to make it harder to accidentally delete posts, pages and comments. After the 30 days the posts/pages in trash are automatically…Continue Reading Delete Posts and Pages
Trash
When you delete a post, page or comment from your blog it is moved to your Trash folder. This feature is designed to make it harder to accidentally delete posts, pages and comments. You have separate trash folders for posts, pages and comments and all items in your trash folders can be restored or are…Continue Reading Trash
Featured Images
Featured images are designed to enhance the appeal of your blog’s homepage, individual posts or individual pages. Featured images are theme dependent. How featured images are used Not all themes support featured images and how the image is displayed on themes that support featured image varies. Here’s some of the different ways feature images are used on…Continue Reading Featured Images
Page Template
Some themes have additional templates that you can use to: Customize pages to specific layouts such as remove or change the location of sidebars Automatically add content to pages to create sitemaps, archives or contributor pages. Template options are listed under the Template Section of the Page Attributes module if your current theme supports additional templates. Using a…Continue Reading Page Template
Post Formats
Themes that support post formats allows you to change how your post looks based on the content type in the post. Below is a gallery in a post using the default Standard Post format on the theme Lingonberry: and here is what the post looks like when the Gallery Post Format is used on same theme: The theme Lingonberry adds a…Continue Reading Post Formats
Live Shortcodes Plugin
The Live Shortcodes plugin lets you quickly add cool things to posts and pages with minimal effort by configuring and inserting shortcode. Shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that enables you to do things that normally would require lots of complicated, ugly code. To get started you need to activate the Live Shortcode plugin in Plugins > All Plugins….Continue Reading Live Shortcodes Plugin