A while ago I installed a WordPress Plugin, which I was using with another installation before. After activating the plugin nothing in my WordPress seemed to work the way it had been working before. Or in other words: all I saw was a white browser-screen 🙁 “So, keep calm…”, I thought to myself. Then I … Read more
WordPress has several built-in shortcuts that you can use when writing your blog-posts. They may help you to write your articles more efficiently. In this post I want to show you some helpful shortcuts for the wordpress post-editor.
When I write a post in WordPress, I always push the “Save Draft” button in between. WordPress then stores the article in the database as a separate revision. So each time I save my draft, a new record is added to the database.
The revisions for a small article like this are stored in several records in my WordPress database. Altough only one of them is published. This mechanism gives you some kind of versioning of your articles, but it also produces a lot of overhead in the database, because the records remain in the database and “inflate” it unnecessarily.
Fortunately, you can configure how WordPress handles the revisions. It is possible to completely disable revisions, or limit to a maximum amount of revisions per post.
WordPress has an “Auto Save” mechanism, which stores your changes of a post every 60 seconds. So if you write a new post in WordPress, this is saved every 60 seconds. It’s a cool feature and makes perfect sense. Anyone who has ever lost a longer text e.g. by a system crash while writing, knows … Read more
What would be the internet without links? If you run a wordpress blog, you’ll most likel ylink to other pages in the web. Unfortunately, these links can change. To avoid broken links on your wordpress blog, you could manually check all the links within your blog posts. Not very funny, hm. But there is another alternative.
WordPress is a great tool if you want to publish your thoughts on the internet. It is easy to use and administrate. It works “straight forward”.
Today I want to give you a little overview about your first steps with WordPress, especially about WordPress installation and hosting.