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WordPress Posts: All Post & Add New
Welcome to the first of a two part training within the Introduction Series dealing with posts. Posts are where WordPress began years ago as blog platform, and they allow for dynamic or rolling content to be created. These are typically displayed on the site in descending order, with newest at the top. Let’s dive in.
From the WordPress Dashboard, locate Posts in the left hand menu. Hovering over Posts, a fly-out menu will appear with options.
Note: The first option can be accessed by clicking the main Posts menu option, as well as clicking All Posts in the fly-out menu.
All Posts
The All Posts screen shows us a list of blog posts, paginated based on settings within WordPress. We are going to break this down into 3 sections.
Section 1: Top Bits
The first section, the top bits, is all the stuff above the actual list of posts. Next to the Posts section title is a button for creating a new post. Across that are 2 top tabs for Screen Options and Help.
Screen Options
Screen options allows for the choosing of which columns and related content to show or hide, the pagination which defaults to 20 items per page, and whether or not to show a compact view, with links below each title shown only on hover, or extended view, which shows those links all the time.
Help
The help options show the main help areas under posts, the information for each selected section, and finally links for more information.
Post Statuses
Next along with an all option to show all posts, we have a list of post statuses such as published, drafts, Cornerstone content, and so forth. The status selectors allow for showing content based on status.
Across from post status area is a post search option, which allows for searching posts for those containing the entered search criteria.
Section 2 : Actions & Filters
Below the categorizing of posts is a bulk actions selector. Following that are date and category filter option selectors.
Notice that below the posts is another option to use the Bulk actions drop down selector.
Section 3 : Post Information
The final section which makes up the bulk of the Posts area is the posts themselves. Here we see a post overview broken down across columns: Title, Author, Categories, Tags, Comments, and Date. The title, comments, and date columns have arrows to indicate the ability to sort by those columns: ascending and descending. Below each column you will see the relevant content for each post. The content in each column, except for the date column are clickable, with all but the title and comments allowing for filtering content by the value in that column. The title will take you to the post content and the comments will take you to view the comments.
When you hover the Title, a list of links appear. These links will always display, without the need to hover if the extended view option is selected under the Screen Options tab.
Edit
The edit option will open the page in the admin area and allow for the post to be edited as you wish, provided your account has the ability to edit posts.
Quick Edit
The quick edit option allows for quickly changing items such as the post title, while hiding the post’s content.
Trash
The trash option allows for removing a post from being accessed on the site. Items in the trash can be permanently removed or restored, to allow access to view or make changes.
Preview / View
The preview option will allow for viewing an unpublished post. If the post has been published, a view option will allow for viewing the post as it is.
Now that we have looked at how to work with previously created post, let’s look at how to create a new post.
Add New
When you select Add New under the Posts area, you will be presented with an area to create a new post. For most users from WordPress 5.5 and newer, you will see the block editor Gutenberg. We dive deeper into Gutenberg in the Gutenberg training.
Prior to WordPress 5.5 or for those using the classic editor plugin, the visual editor might be the default editor you see. You can still choose to use Gutenberg within the post creation or enable this to be selected by the user. Doing this is discussed in the Classic Editor plugin training. Alternatively, you could be using a different visual editor entirely.
Wrap Up
This concludes the Introduction to Posts training for the All Posts and Add New sections. Additional training is available which covers Categories and Tags, along with how you might best work with these two types of organizational structure.