User Guide

ADDING A NEW POST WITH

QUICKPRESS

You probably won’t use Quickpress very often, if at all. However it’s on the

Dashboard in a pretty handy position. So in case you do, it will allow you to add a

post to your blog page in one step.

Simply enter the title and your post (the content). A good habit to get into is

entering tags. These are descriptive words that can used elsewhere on your site,

separated by commas.

Click on Publish to post to your blog.

Although you can add images and other media via Quickpress it’s not advisable

as the editor is raw text, and so all images and so on are shown as HTML - not

ideal.

As this is a QuickPress, the content field is small. Some browsers like

Chrome allow you to stretch out the field by dragging the bottom right

corner - if you can, do this to help you out!

WORDPRESS TAXONOMIES

So what is a taxonomy, and how are they used with Categories and Tags?

Well a taxonomy is simply a word used to describe a way of classifying data - it’s

information on the information!

WordPress actually comes with three taxonomies:

1. Tags

2. Categories

3. Link Categories

When you add a tag (for example), you are adding a “term” to the taxonomy. For

example, if you have a cooking site with a blog, you might use the term “cake” as

a tag, along with “pie”. They are terms within the category taxonomy.

You may be wondering why to use taxonomies? There are many, but say on the

cooking site you want to see all blogs about cakes, it’s simple now you have

tagged all relevant posts and/or pages with the term “cake”.

WordPress 3 User Guide" Chapter 5: Posts