The Top 7 Lesser Known WordPress Features | EP 84

The Top 7 Lesser Known WordPress Features

1. Dashboard Widgets 01:06
   •  Tim has a plugin called Divi Dashboard Welcome that you can use to customize your dashboard.
2. Sticky Posts 01:56
   • A sticky post is a post that you stick to the top.
   • With WordPress blogs, the most recent content will stick to the top. So if you want a post to stay at the top of your blog, you can make it “sticky”.
   • On the “post edit” screen, there is a checkbox to make the post sticky.
3. Scheduled Posts 02:53
   • You can click “publish” after you finish a post, or you can click “schedule”.
   • This is what we use for WP The Podcast. Our episodes go live at 5 am every morning. Thankfully because of this feature, no one is up at 5 am clicking the publish button.
4. Quick Embed Media Feature 03:33
   • WordPress has pre-made media URLs that it will format when you paste in your URL.
   • So if you paste a YouTube URL, this widget will automatically find that video and format it on the page.
5. Formatting Shortcuts 04:16
   • This is another one of the great time saving WordPress features.
   • WordPress has formatting shortcuts that you can use when writing blog posts.
     • # for h1 tags, ## for h2 tags, ### for h3 tags, and so on.
     • * or – to start unordered lists. or 1) to start ordered lists.
     • > for blockquotes.
     • — for a horizontal line.
     • `..` for code block.
6. Image Editing 05:43
   • WordPress has a built-in image editing tool. You can crop, resize, and flip the image.
7. Close Comments After Set Amount of Days 06:17
   • Comments are great for creating community on your website, answering questions, etc.
   • Having comments also opens your site to a lot of spam.
   • Even if you are using a plugin to filter out spam comments, you’ll still have some get through.
   • If you have a lot of blog posts, you don’t want to have to go back and delete comments from a 5 month old blog post.
   • Some companies set a date on your comments. For example, you could set a post to close comments after 3 months.