Intro to online editor
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The online editor is easy to use like a word processor, allowing formatting like bold, italics, headings, and bullet points. It has visual and HTML views and various formatting buttons. When creating a new page or post, add a title and the editor will generate a permanent URL or permalink. Formatting options include adding media, changing text alignment, inserting links, and more.
Intro to online editor
- 2. The online editor is used to enter content into your Page or Post and is very easy to use. If you are familiar with Word Processor then you’ll find the editor almost the same. The online editor has a menu options that allow you to Bold ( ) or Italicize ( ) text or enter in Headings ( ) or bullet points ( ). You can also use most of the basic keyboard shortcuts used in other text editors Such as: Shift+Enter inserts line break, Ctrl+C = copy, Ctrl+X = cut, Ctrl+Z = undo, Ctrl+Y = redo, Ctrl+A = select all, etc. (if you are on a Mac use the Command key instead of Ctrl). www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 3. At the top of the editor you can see two tabs, Visual/HTML ( ). Here you can switch the editor view between the Visual editor and the HTML editor. The HTML view will enable you to view the HTML code that makes up your content. For the more experienced users this can be helpful at times but for those not familiar with HTML tags, it's not recommended. First thing to do when you are creating a new Page or Post is to enter the title in the top entry field where it says “Enter title here”. After moving the cursor down to the editor a new Permalink is created for your Page. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual Posts, Pages, Categories etc.. Though not usually necessary, you can manually edit your permalink by clicking on the actual permalink (the part after the domain name with the yellow background) or by clicking the Edit button. Once you've modified it, click Ok to save or Cancel to cancel your changes. www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 4. At the top of the editor where your content is written, you will see numerous formatting buttons. Clicking the Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button (the last button with the small coloured boxes) will show or hide a second line of formatting buttons which will give you an extra functionality. The editor buttons perform the following functions: Add Media (Image-Video-Audio): Used to upload and insert Images/Videos/Audios/Media into your posts and pages. Bold: Bold text Italic: Italicise text Strikethrough ‐ Add a strikethrough to your text Unordered List ‐ Create an unordered (bullet point) list www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 5. Ordered List ‐ Create an Ordered (numbered) list Blockquote ‐ Used as a way of showing a quote. How this looks will be entirely dependent on the Theme that your site is currently using Align left ‐ Align text to the left Align Center ‐ Align text in the center of the page Align Right ‐ Align text to the right Insert/edit link ‐ Used to create an html link to another page or website. The text that you want to link needs to be highlighted first before the button become will become active. If you wish to create a link to an uploaded file such as a PDF, then use the Add Media button instead www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 6. Unlink ‐ Remove the html link from the selected link. Your cursor must be sitting on an active link for the button to be active Insert More tag ‐ Inserts the More tag into your Page. Most blogs only display a small excerpt of a Post and you're required to click the Post title or a “Read more...” link to continue reading the rest of the article. When you insert a “More” tag into your Post, everything prior to the tag is considered as this excerpt. Most times you'd only use this button when you’re creating a blog Post, rather than a Page Toggle Spellchecker ‐ Used to toggle the spellchecker on and off. You can also select between a range of different languages Toggle fullscreen mode ‐ Clicking this button will enlarge the editor so that it fills the browser window. Clicking the Exit fullscreen link at the top of the screen will reduce it back to its original size www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 7. Show/Hide Kitchen Sink ‐ Used to show or hide the second row of formatting buttons on the editor toolbar Style ‐ Used to format the Page text based on the styles used by the current Theme Underline ‐ Underline your text Align Full ‐ Align text on both the left and right (ie. justify) Select text color ‐ Use to change the color of text Paste as Plain Text ‐ Copying & pasting text from other sites or word processors sometimes leaves the text formatted differently to what you were expecting. The reason for this is that quite often the html tags or codes that formatted the original text are pasted along with the text itself. To avoid this, Paste as Plain Text will strip all these formatting and html tags. Checking the keep linebreaks checkbox will preserve all HTML <br /> tags. Unchecking this option will remove them www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 8. Paste from Word ‐ Pasting text from MS Word typically includes a huge amount of extra unrequired HTML tags which usually leaves the text formatted incorrectly. Using the Paste from Word option will remove these additional tags and clean up the HTML Remove formatting ‐ Use this to remove all the formatting (ex. Bold, Underline, text color etc..) from the highlighted text Insert custom character ‐ Used to insert special characters not easily accessible via the keyboard (ex. ¼, ½, ¾, ©, €, ö etc..) Outdent ‐ Removes one level of indenting Indent ‐ Indents text by one level Undo ‐ Undo your last action www.ProEducationalNetworks.com
- 9. Redo ‐ Redo your last action Visual/HTML ‐ Switches the editor view between the Visual Editor and the HTML editor. The HTML view will enable you to view the HTML code that makes up your content. For the more experienced users this can be helpful at times but for those not familiar with HTML tags, it's not recommended www.ProEducationalNetworks.com