Writing

When you write a long post in WordPress it can take a while for your readers to scroll all the way through it. This can be frustrating for them if they are only interested in a particular section of the post, or if they are coming back to continue reading it from a previous session. […]

When you are writing a post in WordPress, there are a lot of options in the column at the right side of the window. These options include things like categories, tags, the featured image and more that you can use to customize the post. But if you aren’t using all of those sections, you might […]

The ability to create pages in WordPress allows you to create locations for important information like your contact page or your privacy policy, without including those pages in your blogroll. These pages can be updated in similar ways as your posts, making it easy to ensure that important things are kept current. But your needs […]

There are a lot of great guides for getting the SEO settings set up correctly on your website. While many of these guides will differ in what they consider to be important SEO elements on your site, one common item that they agree upon is the importance of the “meta description” field. The “meta description” […]

Categories in WordPress provide a simple way for you to organize the posts that you write. You can then include categories in your navigational menus, and people can browse the posts on your website based upon the categories into which you have sorted them. But WordPress needs a little direction from you when it comes […]

New WordPress installations have a category called “Uncategorized” by default. You may have already created your own categories for posts, but you may find that some posts will wind up in the Uncategorized category because you forgot to select a category before publishing the post. This is not behavior that you need to live with, […]