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Wordpress Plugin’s In Review: TinyMCE Advanced
Finally you can format your text the way you want!
I remember the first time I sat down to create a post on my new Wordpress blog. It was an exciting moment that quickly changed to frustration. All I wanted to do was change the font size!
Seemed to me like a reasonable enough request. But, I’d be darned if I could figure out how to do that with the default tool bar. Sure I could change from “paragraph” to “Heading 1″ or “Heading 2″ but none of these gave me the results I wanted.
This sent me on a quest for a good wordress wysiwyg editor. After hunting around for a while I discovered two that I liked. One is called “WP Super Edit” and the other is “TinyMCE Advanced”. Since of the two I prefer TinyMCE Advanced, that is the plugin I will discuss today.
So with out further ado here are some of the features this plugin provides:
- Change font size and font family !!!
- Create and editing tables
- Text justificati0n
- Text hi-lighting
- Subscript & superscript
- Anchor links
- Search and replace
- Time & Date insertion
- Emotions (Smilies)
- ieSpell checked
40 new formatting buttons in all.
Needless to say this plugin has become a staple in each and every wordpress website & blog I design. To see the plugin installation in action I invite you to watch the video below:
Good Copy Tip #3: Linking within your website
One opportunity that is often missed is linking to internal pages within your website.
This is valuable in several ways:
- It enables easier creation of scannable pages.
- It creates Google optimized, topic specific, pages.
- It allows you to guide readers into older blog posts.
By linking deeper into your website you can provide a readers with simple lists that they can scan; with the option to learn more on that topic if they follow the link. In addition, linking within your website allows you a way to continue using older posts in your blog. Most blog posts are not looked at once they are about 5 posts old. By guiding readers to older posts and series you have written, you are able to maximize your imvestment in them.
Finally, linking deeper into your site helps to guide your guest through your site to the information that interest them the most. This is crucial as web surfers have little patience hunting for what they are looking for.