Content & Media

Writing and publishing posts and pages with the block editor, organizing them with categories, tags, and featured images, saving drafts, scheduling, restoring revisions, plus uploading and editing the images and files in your Media Library.

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How to save a post quickly with Press This

Half your best ideas turn up while you're reading something else. Press This is the shortcut for those moments: it turns the page you're looking at into a draft in a couple of clicks, so you can keep reading and write later.

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How to publish posts by email

You can publish a post without opening the dashboard at all — just send an email. Point WordPress at a private mailbox, and every message that arrives there turns into a new post on your site.

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How to set who can see a post

Not every post is meant for everyone. WordPress lets you make a post public, keep it private to your site's team, or lock it behind a password you share yourself — and you choose which one before the post goes live.

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How to upload media files

Every photo, video, audio clip, and document you add to your site lives in the Media Library. Uploading a file is a single step, and you can add as many at once as you like.

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How to choose a post format

A post format tells your theme what kind of post this is — a short note, a photo gallery, a quote — so it can style it differently. Choosing one takes a few clicks in the editor.

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Understanding the difference between posts and pages

Posts and pages both give you a title, a body, and a place to write. The difference is what they're for: posts are entries that pile up over time, and pages are the steady, standing parts of your site.

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How to create and organize your pages

Posts come and go, but some pages stay put — About, Contact, the ones visitors look for again and again. Here's how to create a page and tuck it into a tidy hierarchy so everything has a place.

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How to set a featured image and excerpt

The featured image and the excerpt are the two things WordPress shows alongside your post when it is listed somewhere other than its own page — on your blog's home page, in archives, and in feeds. Both live in the post editor's settings sidebar, and setting them takes about a minute.

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How to manage your blogroll links

Your blogroll is the short list of sites you want to share with your readers, and WordPress keeps every one of them in the same place. This guide walks you through adding a site, putting it in a group, and deciding how it behaves when someone clicks it.

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How to stick a post to the top of your blog

Sticking a post keeps it in the lead spot on your blog, above everything newer. It's the quickest way to keep an announcement, a welcome message, or a post you're proud of where visitors can't miss it.

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How to find a file in your Media Library

Everything you upload — photos, videos, documents — lands in your Media Library. Here's how to switch between the grid and list views, narrow the library down by file type or date, and search for something you added a while ago.

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How to publish a post

You've finished writing, and now it's time to share it. Publishing takes one click, and WordPress shows you a short set of checks first so nothing goes live by surprise.

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How to schedule a post to publish later

You don't have to be sitting at your desk when a post goes out. Write it now, pick the day and time you want it to appear, and WordPress will publish it for you.

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How to delete media files you no longer need

Old uploads have a way of piling up — the photo you replaced, the PDF you never linked, the version of a logo you stopped using last year. Clearing them out frees up space and makes your library easier to search, so here's how to find the files that aren't doing anything and remove them for good.

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How to add details to your media files

Every file in your Media Library can carry a few words about what it is. Fill those in and your images start working for you — search engines can read them, screen readers can describe them, and visitors see a caption under the picture instead of a bare file name.

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How to find a post in the Posts list

Once your site has a good number of posts, scrolling through the Posts list stops being practical. The search box, the filters, and the status links at the top of that list will bring the one you want into view in a couple of clicks.

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How to edit an image

WordPress has a small but capable photo editor built right into your Media Library. You can crop, rotate, flip, and scale an image without opening another program — and put it back the way it was if you change your mind.

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How to make quick and bulk edits to posts

You don't have to open a post in the editor just to fix a typo in its title or move it into another category. The Posts list lets you change a post's details right in the row, or apply the same change to a whole batch of posts at once.

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How to restore an earlier version of a post

WordPress keeps a saved copy of every version of your post as you work on it, so an accidental deletion or a rewrite you regret is never final. Here is how to look back through those copies, compare them, and put the one you want back in place.

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How to organize your posts with categories and tags

Categories are the broad sections of your site — Recipes, Travel, Book Reviews — and tags are the finer details inside them. Together they turn a long list of posts into something readers can actually browse.

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