Writing

This page lets you set some basic options for writing your posts. Table 3-1 gives you some information on choosing how your posts look and how WordPress handles some specific conditions.

After you set your options, be sure to click the Save Changes button; other-

wise, the changes won’t take effect.

 

Writing Settings Options

Option                    Function                                         Default

Size of the                Determines the size of the text box        Ten lines

Post Box                  on the Write Post page. The bigger

the number, the taller the box.

Formatting               Determines whether WordPress           Converts

converts emoticons to graphics and     emoticons —

whether WordPress corrects inval-  such as :-) and

idly nested XHTML automatically.          :-P — to graph-

In general, we recommend select-         ics and corrects

ing this option. (You can find more       invalidly nested

information about valid XHTML             XHTML

code at http://validator.

w3.org/docs/#docs_all.)

 

Default Post              Select the category that WordPress

Category                 defaults to any time you forget to

choose a category when you pub-
lish a post.

Default Post              Select the format that WordPress

Format                    defaults to any time you create

a post and do not assign a post format. (This is theme specific, not all themes support post formats; see Book VI, Chapter 6.)


Uncategorized

 

Default Link              Select the category that WordPress       Uncategorized

Category                 defaults to any time you forget to

categorize a link.

Press This               Drag and drop the Press This link to     N/A

the bookmark toolbar of your Web
browser, and then use it to easily
publish content that you find around
the Internet directly to your blog.

Post via E-Mail          Publish blog posts from your e-mail       N/A

account by entering the e-mail and
server information for the account
you’ll be using to send posts to your
WordPress blog.

Option                    Function                                           Default

Remote                   Enable Atom Publishing Protocol or         Disabled

Publishing               one of the XML-RPC publishing inter-

faces that enable you to post to your

WordPress blog from a remote Web

site or desktop publishing application.

Update Services        Indicate which ping service you        http://rpc.

Note: This option       want to use to notify the world that   pingomatic.

is available only if  you’ve made updates, or new posts,        com

your blog is made      to your blog. The default, XML-RPC

public in the           (http://rpc.pingomatic.

Privacy settings,    com), updates all the popular ser-

covered in the          vices simultaneously.

“Privacy” sec-
tion, later in this
chapter.

Go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services for compre-

hensive information on update services.