Editing Posts & Pages in WordPress

This video introduces users to:

  • Locating posts or pages to edit using Posts > Posts or Pages > Pages
  • Accessing the Post and Page action menu links
  • Open up a post or page in Edit mode
  • Changing text to bold and italics
  • Aligning text left, centre and right
  • Updating posts and posts

And here’s some info about editing posts and pages that you can use to complement your videos — if you like!

The Edit Post and Edit Page area in your administration panel where you see a listing of
all the saved posts/pages, 20 posts per page, that you’ve written on your site.

In this screen you can search for posts/pages and once located you can either edit or delete
them.

Hovering your mouse over the title of a post/page brings up four action links:

Page / Post action link menu items

Edit

Clicking the action link Edit opens the post into
full edit mode where you can edit the post/page and/or configure post options
such as passwords, categories, tags and the timestamp.

Quick Edit

Clicking the action link Quick Edit opens
the post/page options letting you configure features such as title, status,
passwords, categories, tags comments and the timestamp without having to
edit the full post/page.

Trash

Used when you want to delete a post/page on your site.

View

Takes you to your site where you can see what the post/page looks like when viewed on your site.

Enjoy!