 Customer success at www.fakebeauty.com, so we're just going to go for it. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! So when you're on speaker on day two and you've been speaking over counts for two days, you're not going to learn Chinese, so I'm going to use the microphone to talk to you. If you use this, I feel fine, and this is because I sound terrible. So the most important thing I want you to know about the hidden features of word questions, is that they're written down for you to find or to use. But sometimes when we just jump in with both feet, we don't know all of the things that are available to us. So some of the things I want to share with you today are some of the lesser-known features. If you have heard of them, fantastic. One of the people that's unearthed them is WordPress Archaeology, which is the attack of them. But some of the hidden features we're going to talk about today are looking at the screen options on different pages, posts, things like that. The help program. We're going to talk about post-actions, page-options, post-page editor. What the quick edit can do for you. We're going to talk about favoriting the client, and then we're going to look at some of the salinity shortcuts that might be able to help you. If you'd like to take notes, feel free. But I will tweet out my tweet-like error right today. Okay, slide back afterwards. Slideshare.vent.slashmashamease. But I will go ahead and put that out there in a few years. So screen options actually appear on many of the admin's pages that we see. Specifically, you'll see screen options on your dashboard. On pages, posts, comments, widgets, menus, plugins, and even on users. Screen options are going to include a lot of standard things, a lot of standard options that you can see across the board. But they also include additional options, depending on what kind of plugins you might have installed. So for example, if you're using Yoast or MoveConverse, you're going to see different screen options appear on the top of the pages and posts. That's what you may or may want to include with what you're looking at. Your screen options are always going to appear up there under Howdy. We're all familiar with Howdy. So we're going to be happy to see your screen options and that helps. Just click those and you're going to come up with some pretty neat programs. For example, if you're on the main dashboard, you just logged into your WordPress site. I've got some animation around it for you so you can see what I'm talking about. You click that screen options, it comes out, and you're able to toggle on and off the different boxes that you'll see on your dashboard. So things like the QuigEdit, the Added Glance. I put drafts, things like that, the Activity. You can toggle those order off. So when you first log into your dashboard, you feel overwhelmed. You just click some of the screen top down very easily. But then you can put that down just as quickly. Does everybody notice the new feature that Holden dashboard that tells you where it's coming up next in your area? So you'll see when there's meetups in your area, something like that. So if you haven't looked at that, take a look at that on that dashboard because unless you know what kind of WordPress, you've got some meetups that are coming up so that you can stay involved in your work with me. Pretty cool stuff. So you're on your post list and you see a list of all the different things that you've got in there. You put that screen options down there and you can see all the different things you can toggle on and off. For example, if you're the only one that writes on your blog, maybe you don't care to see your name five million times and you can turn that off or off. Which opens up your other columns to give you more information. You can also toggle on and off the categories, tags, comments, the date. And then some of the what you'll see up there now like social share, SEO, readability, those are all coming off of plugins. So the ones you're going to see that have to do with WordPress Core are the author categories, tags, comments, date. The other ones are coming off of plugins that I'm using. Some are paid and some are not. They all have a preview version. So if you're using social worker, for example, which is a free plugin, and they're positive you're going to get those social shares. If you're using iOS, you're going to start to see some of the iOS things that they include. So depending on what plugins you're using, they may or may not have incorporated into that profile. If you have questions at any time, feel free to stop me. You don't have to hold them to the end. And you're looking at the screen for actually editing a post or creating a post. So this is a post on my blog. I love you more than WordPress. And it's true of people in my life that actually rank above WordPress. But there are a couple things you can toggle on and off. So you can toggle on and off. Things that have to do a lot with your plugins. You can look at one column versus two column. So if you like having a little more space to type it, you turn it into two column. It doesn't get rid of your second column. It just puts it at the bottom of the page so they stack. Instead of looking at each other side by side. So that's kind of my blue option for your screen options. You can see all those different things. You can toggle on and off your featured image. You can look at additional settings, things like that. So there's a lot of different things. If you look at those screen options, in every view that you have in your dashboard, you'll find some pretty interesting things for you. Like I said, they're not going to look very good. Similar to the post list in your page list, you're going to see that too. It only has one actual page. So they're not going to see a lot there. And if you're judging me on my SEO right now, please don't. I did SEO on that page. I just SEOed the post list. So that's when that puts like a terrible second block. I don't know what I'm doing. But just similarly, you can turn it on and off. The after comments, date, and then anything to do with those plugins. That doesn't turn off the plugins. Of course not. What it does is it turns off what you see on that page. So you're talking on and off. So it's visual to you as you look at that page. And what information is important to you versus it's just clutter to you. So it doesn't do anything as far as the functionality of your website and what your visitors see. It only turns off and off what you are seeing in the dashboard. So that you can better control what you're doing and what you're seeing and how you're using WordPress from the dashboard side of things. When you actually edit one of your pages, so now I've pulled up the page and you can see I'm turning on and off my one column to column. It works very, very much the same as the dashboard posts. Because they're pretty much the same, right? As far as the things that you're seeing on the page are the same. So some of those are going to be the same. Some of them are going to be different. As far as the layout, some things like that. Always things that seem dependent. So there's a lot of things that might be included based on the theme that you've learned in. And again, depending on what kinds of plugins you're using. If you go to your comments on your page, similarly you can turn on and off those columns. So you can turn on and off the author in response to which shows you which article you're responding to and the date that it was submitted on. And then one of my favorite things in those lists is you can turn on and off for pages, posts, and comments. The number that you see on the page. So if you've got a blog with 80 posts on it and it's only generally 20 for pages I have to keep clicking over and over and over to get to that number 79. Or I have to remember what one of the words is and search for it. You can just change those to say, I want to see 999 posts on this page and just scroll continuously. That's what I do because I would rather scroll. I would hit it once. I don't want to hit and then search. Hit and then scroll, scroll, scroll. I just change that to every single site I ever went into so that everything is showing up in one list. Now one of the interesting things about that is let's say that there's two of you working on a site and a partner that you're working on a site with doesn't want to do that. Well this is very specific to the user experience. So if you are the, you know, your user one and you change this to 999 it has no effect on what user two sees on their dashboard. So it's very specific to the user experience so that everybody is able to change what they see in the dashboard specific to themselves and continue to use WordPress in the way the best suits them. There's not a lot with widgets. The widget space, what it does though, if you do that pull down for that screen options it changes for accessibility. And one of the nice things about this, so when we're doing widgets and you click it, you click the widget space and it pops down and it says where do you want to put this widget? You want it in a sidebar, you want it in a floater, you want it in a header, you want it in a cyber month, cyber two, cyber three, depending on your status. With accessibility, what it does instead is it comes up, it changes all those pull downs and it just says text, add. And then the next screen comes up as you'll see here just a second. So if you're using a screen reader it can read down the screen and it'll ask you where you want to put that. So it makes it a much cleaner experience for somebody who's processing via auditory with using a screen reader so that they can see anything that's happening. So you see here, you click add and then you click edit. And now you have this list here, the screen reader is going to read down and let them pick the radio button where they're going to put that widget. So it's a much cleaner experience for somebody who's using a screen reader. I just love how accessible WordPress is. Not just that we can make our sites accessible for other people who need it, but the building in WordPress is accessible as well. Looking at your screen options with menus you can see things that you're going to talk about now. Let me tell you, the genesis of this entire talk was because in one of my first websites I needed to click in the navigation between two sites owned by the same company. So I had a church and a nursery school and they each wanted to be able to link back and forth to each other and open in a new tab so that you didn't leave their site but you had a site in addition and so on and so on. I had no idea how to do that with navigation because I would look at the menu, I'd open it up, pop that open and nowhere can I see where I was supposed to open it in a new tab. I'm searching CSS, I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to code this thing to make it work. So I googled it, scroll the holes, screen options and all you have to do is click that link target and now you have a little box that opens up in your menu that says open it in a new tab or window. It was like the angels saying. I couldn't believe how easy it was so soon as I saw that I thought, oh my goodness, there must be so many more things I've never heard of before and that's where all these hidden features started not being so hidden anymore and I did feel like a repressed archaeologist because I was digging through and finding all the hidden stuff but it really was a hidden thing, it was there all along. We have this wonderful thing called the Codex. Does anybody read it cover to cover? Exactly. When you need something, do you go to the Codex or do you hit Google? It's nice that somebody can point some of the things out to you. The link target is with your menu so if you have your navigation across let's say across the top of your website and you want to add a special link that's going to open someplace else. So we could do that, right? Through custom links here we can add it and then it will go over there but if I wanted to open that in a new tab you have to be able to pull it out of the top and click the link target and that will give you a little box in the menu over here where it says open in a new tab and that way when somebody does click that in your navigation it opens up a new tab. I was telling you, this is one of those things where I was like, I'm getting this very fresh stuff. I know that. No, you've got your screen options. You've got screen options with the plugins. Really all this does is toggle on and off the description and then the number that you see in any one page. So if you've got four plugins running on your site changing that from 20 to 909 is not going to make a difference for you. If you've got 80 running on your site of course you're going to be able to scroll down and see them all but then turning on and off the description just makes it shorter so that you can see more per page as well. So you don't have to scroll this far. It's just a nice little way to be able to customize the way that you do business within WordPress. With your user options we're looking at very similar things like toggle on and off the email, the posts what we're seeing in there and then you just see me listed twice there because I didn't want anybody I didn't want my administrator to be the same as my editor name so that when I'm posting as myself people can't guess that that's the admin user as well so that's why I listed myself twice on my blog so that I'm seeing different things to be able to log in. Trying to make it a little bit trickier for someone to hack me. There's a lot of things you can do in that writing column or if you're looking at one column of the course it's going to be below like we said before. So in that writing column under where it says publish or update so you're going to look in there and you're going to see that you can stick a post to the front page. Did you know that you can stick a post to the front page? Fantastic. So when you have all these different blog posts at the top you stick that post to the top page so I work on the website for WordCare Rochester and I want the one with all of the information about the upcoming dates and everything to be the one that's always at the top that's my sticky post. Any other imposters who are coming underneath that so it's always going to be the one on top so that's what you can do right there. You can password protect posts so that only somebody who has that password can be able to access that post. Now it's not as secure as per membership site where you're protecting a page based on somebody having to log in with their own user name and password because this is one password that goes across the board for the site. If anybody knows that password they can access that post. So it's secure but it's not as secure as it could be so it's just protecting you a little bit but if anybody shares that password anybody else can get into it too. Private posts are going to be dependent on what somebody's user level is so if you set a post to private anybody who's visiting your site and doesn't have a user account within your site is not going to be able to see that page or that post. Anybody who is an admin should be able to see it because the most it should be right and then you can say who else might be able to have access to that page or that post. And then the really cool thing is that you have this publication date. So your publication date usually is that site as soon as you hit publish you have that publication date that shows up there and that's what shows up in your blog if you're using the legal metadata in there so people can see exactly when that post is published. You can change that. So if you want to back fill a blog so somebody has come to you you're building a payout website for them they give you five blog posts so it doesn't look like they've just started you can post publish them all and then back date them so that it looks like they've been blogging for the last five months. That's something you can do. You can also future date them. If you future date a post it's not going to show up until that date and time hits and then it's going to publish for you. So the publication date and time it's a wonderful thing that you can actually have an effect on that and make some changes. Also if you publish five things in the same date and you really want to reorder them you can just change the time or the date that they were published and so you can make sure that they show up chronologically. I don't want to say that right. Any questions on the post options? Guess what? Page options work very much the same way. So we have the update here. The published pending reviewer draft if you have published the page and you wish you hadn't go back and send it to draft status and pull it off of the end of your site and people won't be able to see any more. Again you can pass your protectors that to private and again you can change the publication date just like you can with posts. The one thing you have here which is really beautiful too is revisions. So if you've made a huge change on a page and you hit publish and you realize that you shouldn't have overwritten everything on the page you can scroll back to the previous revision and redo it. So you can scroll back. It's almost like going to the Way Back Machine. Has everybody seen the Way Back Machine online? I had a client whose site got completely hacked was gone and she said I need it up again today. Well it wasn't, I hadn't built it. All I did was add a few things here and there. I had no version of her site saying because that wasn't our contract I was able to go to the Way Back Machine and pull all the content off on ours and then recreate her site in about four hours. So if you're not familiar with Archive.org we'll take you to the Way Back Machine and you can look at the site. For the private posts do you say you can use which rules have access or is it a set? It's set automatically to admin but there are ways you can use your supplyings for user accessibility or to determine what users have what access to have an effect on that. The Archive.org can be a really cool thing for you if you need a little extra help. Have you ever played with literally all the buttons? Because all the buttons are pretty cool. So reading across from the left you've got your bold italics cross-strike out I don't know, I don't use strike out that often but everyone's allowed to have fun and you really want to show some bits and change somewhere you can use strike out. You've got your unordered list, your ordered list and then your quotation which is usually in-depth because things are going to style a little differently then you've got your justification your links the one that looks like I would style this like a road it looks like a strike road is your read more so you can insert your read more tag so if you're showing your blog post on a page and you don't want to show the entire post you can put that read more in there it will truncate that description there and somebody will click before to open up the whole post your ABC is your proofreading so if you haven't used the proofreader before it's a beautiful thing you can click there to proofread your writing the toolbar toggle who remembers what I used to call the kitchen sink I liked that that was fun it was like everything about the oh wait there it is the kitchen sink that was called the toolbar toggle what that does is it pops up with the bottom half of this toolbar so when you first install wordmark you can just see that top half and you wonder how do I change from paragraph to h1 for example you hit that toolbar toggle and it will pop up then the whole the whole paragraph so we have our paragraph you can change here obviously if you're using text editor versus visual editor you can use tags to do that yourself but if you want to just highlight and change something to a heading 1, heading 2 you can do that with that paragraph on heading settings the other line I know you don't know we have pastes text so if you've copied something how many of you have ever copied something out of Word? pasted it in Wordpress and say oh my goodness it doesn't look anything like it's supposed to that's because Word does some pretty funky formatting for you that Wordpress doesn't know what to do at half the time so if you pasted this text then you can strip out all of that formatting which is always clear formatting so you can also clear the formatting something so it'll take out your h1s it'll take out all of your formatting just back to paragraph which gives you a clean slate to be able to go in and edit the text that you pasted however you'd like to the special character so you see an omega up there that's the special character so if you're looking for special characters like an m-dash m-dash paragraph marks things like that you can use click that special character it'll pop open the little box that'll give you an option to pull different special characters into there and then that question mark at the end says hey do you wonder what some other keyboard shortcuts are click here and so that little question mark will give you a lot more options that'll show you a bunch more things that might be helpful any questions on the editor? great because we have more editor options so we have visual and text editor so if you are not somebody who looks at HTML and doesn't like to work in a visual environment then don't click the text editor because the text editor just shows you all the markup you're not going to see pictures, you're not going to see layout, you're just going to see a bunch of text and everything that marks up around it the visual editor is going to pretty much give you what you see as what you get although again depending on what your theme looks like and exactly what you see as what you get it's going to be a lot closer and then this distraction free writing the very first time I've clicked that I didn't know what it was and I thought I lost everything that I could do because everything else is like apparently I like to be distracted but because that was very distracting to me not to have a little available but if you do like to strip away everything around your editor you can click that distraction free writing it'll just give you the writing space click it again and you'll get your published and your update and everything else back so it does talk for you and you haven't lost anything and promises from there we actually work in visual editing to begin so I'll put everything in and insert my images but then I'll do a lot of editing on the other side of things so if I want to go in and you know change change some links you can do a lot by thinking on things in that toggle dashboard up there in the toolbar but for me it's a lot faster sometimes just to go ahead and work it up myself it's really up to the individual you haven't used the quick edit function you should because the quick edit function can do some things for you pretty fast without actually having to open up your post so when you open up, when you click quick edit instead of edit you can change the author you can password or not password protect your page you can change the date you can change the categories you can add tags and you can change the status so you can set it back to draft or whatever you need to do and you can do this for more than one at a time so if I click them all would you see on the upper left hand side here if I have, for example make a mistake one time don't you let them actually tell you my mistakes because I don't want to do that I made a mistake one time I was building a brand new site for a client and she gave me all her blog posts and I published them all and guess what it said under every single one of them Michelle Ames and it should have said Kelly not Michelle and so what I did with those 80 blog posts was I clicked one time I changed it to Kelly and every single one of them updated it can be a beautiful thing it can save you when you make a mistake like that because it's fixable and it's fixable easily which is a beautiful thing so it's definitely a lot you can do with that quick editor and posts and pages work the same way with that quick editor so I'm showing you posts here but it works exactly the same with pages now I'm going to show you the real hidden secret because this one truly is hidden I've never found a button or a link on my WordPress dashboard but what I'm about to show you you have to remember that with great power comes great responsibility because if you make a mistake here you will have to hire somebody to fix it for you this is truly the secret options panel so if you go to your website whatever that is dot com or dot org or dot c o slash wpadmin slash options dot php you will see an enormously long list that you can change so many cool things and wipe out your website for me it's fixable but you have to wait back to it to fix it and you have to know what you did to change it and you know what those things mean so I will tell you honestly the only time I have ever gone to options dot php was to create this slide because I know it's cool because there are other ways to edit things without losing them so because this is the secret you know the hidden secrets of wordpress I have to show you the truly hidden secret but then warn you be careful so we have some things that work really well if you don't know about them these are keystroke issues keystrokes that you can do that will just make life easier so you can go up and you can hit the bulletin list and use the buttons at the top of your toolbar or you can just hit an asterisk it's automatically going to do an unordered list for you isn't that amazing I love it if you want to know how to do it if you want to know how to do it you do two hashtags and it changes it to an H2 heading wow the same thing for heading 3 4 etc if you want to block code you put that carrot in and it changes it to a block code it automatically does that for you you won't see that carrot anymore on the visual editor but you will see that text editor you will see the UL and things like that a number of lists starts with a period who do they go and then the numbers underneath it so bulletin list 1, number of lists etc so those are some little things that are kind of fun other miscellaneous shortcuts are some of these great things if you didn't know what a non-breaking space was if you were trying to figure it out it's ampersand nbsp that's exciting they were taking you oh there you go I love it so there's things that you can do if you're looking for and you're never going to use these on the visual editor side these are always going to go on the text editor side if you type ampersand nbsp on the visual editor side that's what's going to show up on your website these are things that you're always going to use in your text editor so if you don't know how to get the euro for your dollars or the copyright you can go in and you can go ahead put those things on the other side yeah that's pretty cool one of my favorite things and somebody talked to me and I can't believe I didn't discover it on my own was you could favorite plugins in the repository did you know that in the repository so wordpress.org if you search for a particular plugin and you really like it if you're logged in so you have to be logged into wordpress.org heart and the right hand side of the hero image for every plugin and theme and you can hit that little heart and it's going to um so right next to the download button you click that heart and it's going to be one of your favorite plugins watch it go ahead yes I know, I'm a geek you are too because you're all here too so you can pair plugins your favorite plugin do for me Michelle I'm so glad you asked me on the next page so if you go to add a plugin on your dashboard so you click add plugins and then you click over to favorites guess what your favorites will show up if you were logged in it's a beautiful thing so if you don't remember what that security plugin was because it's got some really weird name now you have a little insight into what some of my favorite plugins are look at that kids right at the top um so that's a beautiful thing and we talked about this in my meetup in Rochester and this is the one that everybody always goes oh my goodness this is going to be such a time saver for me because I never know what anything is called and what I just learned on that too is that if you put in somebody else's username you can see all their names if you want to know my favorite that's what she uses for a security well all right then I know that I haven't done that for some of my favorite WordPressers I'm like, what can I use for hmm, well what do you know absolutely that I stand good because you kind of look at each others up it's fantastic and at the last thing I want to point out is the help right hand top up on the right hand corner next to under howdy next to screen options you have something called help and you click help So you get about pages, inserting media, page attributes on the right-hand side. It'll take you to documentation. And depending on what, depending on what plugins you have in it, it may also take you to documentation for the plugins. And some of the takes you, it shows you videos on how to use different things in WordPress. It shows you some amazing things. So the help feature is there. People who really don't know where to go next and are kind of struggling and maybe you never Google something, you still can't find it because you're not using the right terminologies. Well, here you go. You can actually click help and it'll start sending you in the right direction. So the help feature is pretty cool. That's what they're doing on top of us. I'm Hunter. I'm at Michelle Ames. FlightShare.net slash Michelle Ames. And you can get all these different wonderful little things. We still have a little bit of time, so I'm happy to answer. He's going to come show me the five minutes in about 15 minutes. So I'm happy to answer any questions you have. I love to talk about WordPress. If there's things you didn't see up there that you want to know what I do, I'm happy to answer those questions too. So I'll put it on the floor. I want to say thanks for that. I know that it's hidden on this page. Because the developer constantly did either database, SQL Pro, or DHMI admin. It's like to man it up and find the option. You want to see the values work, right? My favorite thing is when a developer comes to this talk and gets something out of it. Usually they're like, I see it all. But that's all. Thank you. Yes. Did you touch on that archive? Yes. So archive.org is a... I don't really know who runs it. I should probably know that. But archive.org actually just takes snapshots of websites over time. Yours may or may not be there. And so it's kind of, you know, a hit or miss. But if your website has been around for a while, chances are it's going to be on archive.org. And you'll see a calendar and you'll see lines that show where the snapshots were taken. If you click that, you will be shown pages from your website. They're not always interactive. So you may see the home page, but you can't click through to any deeper. But sometimes you can. It really depends on what kind of snapshot they took and when they took it. It's really cool. If you do have like a Facebook group for your local community, that kind of thing, WordPressers, look at the first website you ever made at archive.org and go back as far as you can. Do a screen grab and post it on Throwback Thursday because it's hysterical. The first website I ever made for somebody was all black with white text. I know, don't tell me. And it was for a singer and I just had her eyes just peering at you from that home page. And I thought at the time it was slick as snot. I looked at it now and I just had to laugh. And I was like, thank goodness my design skills have come quite a way since then. And that was a QHTML site back in the 90s. So it's serious and doesn't matter. And don't look it up because I'm not talking about us. It's been useful for me when I wanted to capture something because it's just the home page so I can show what a great job it is. Absolutely, yeah. It's really helpful for a number of things, for sure.