Using WordPress

By Scot Hacker, Brian Aguilar
Published Jun 23, 2008 in Web Development

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Sections

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating an Account
  3. Write a Post
  4. HTML versus Visual
  5. What do the Visual icons mean?
  6. What do the HTML icons mean?
  7. Publishing a Post
  8. More publishing options
  9. Managing Your Content
  10. Managing Posts
  11. Managing Other Content
  12. Working with Comments
  13. Adding Media
  14. Adding QuickTime Video
  15. Adding Flash
  16. Related Links

What do the Visual icons mean?

If you are writing a post in WordPress while in Visual mode, you'll find the following icons. Here is a list of the functionality behind each icon.

NOTE: You can get the information listed below by  hovering the mouse over each icon  for a moment.

Visual display Bold icon Make text bold
Visual display Italic icon Make text italic
Visual display Strikethrough icon Strikethrough text
Visual display Unordered List icon Create an unordered list
Visual display Ordered List icon Create an ordered list
Visual display Blockquote icon Convert to blockquote (What is a block quote?)
Visual display Align Left icon Align text left
Visual display Align Center icon Center text
Visual display Align Right icon Align text right
Visual display Hyperlink icon Convert text into a hyperlink
Visual display Remove Link icon Remove hyperlink
Visual display Insert Image icon Insert an image
Visual display More icon Used for creating a break between the "teaser" that will appear on the homepage, and the "body" section of your post, which will appear on the post's individual "permalink" page (the actual story page).
Visual display Fullscreen icon View the editor in fullscreen mode.

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