WordPress Hints For BPB Posters
You may remember when we started using Brad Choate’s textile back in the old days. Well, it is still available here on our new WordPress site. If you like taking shortcuts you should really read up on Textile shortcuts as it makes quick and simple work of that complicated html crap.
The best example: you may remember that we used to say
Sarcasm Mark: <strong><sub>¡<strong><sub>
in our banner and now we can simplify it by using
Sarcasm Mark: ~*¡*~
The one I use most often is to create links. So above instead of typing
<a href=“http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/2004/02/16/1163/”>started using Brad Choate’s textile</a>
I simply typed
“started using Brad Choate’s textile”:http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/2004/02/16/1163/
You way have also noticed that some of us (just Becky and I, right now) have acquired icons in the upper right corner of our posts that show who made the post graphically — and it shows up in our comments. If you want the same thing, go into your user profile and look for the “Gravatar” tab. If you want your old one, just use the format “http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/images/etrigan.png”, replacing the filename (etrigan) with your username.
3 Responses to “WordPress Hints For BPB Posters”
Comment from KellyMc
Time March 7, 2008 at 10:10 am
So what am I doing wrong with line breaks? My breaks in the visual editor disappear if I go to the code editor, and the code editor drops my br’s and p’s. Is it a Safari problem?
Comment from etrigan
Time March 7, 2008 at 11:51 am
I turned off the visual editor because it’s “dirty” — creates unnecessary clutter. You could do the same in Site Admin/Users/My Profile. Combined with “Save and Continue Editing” and “Preview”, I can see the pages before they post and the visual editor doesn’t try to rearrange my post.
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Comment from etrigan
Time March 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Here are some more ideas on using Textile mark-up in your blog posts.