Resolutions to Common Problems

WordPress Authors Experience

Not all problems when dealing with a CMS are technical in nature, though sometimes a solution can be technical, other times just finding a way to workaround the issue is the best solution.

If you regularly produce blog posts and pages, whether you a WordPress Author, else use another CMS, you might crash into a problem, often with a time constraint, and a solutions needs to be found asap. This article lists common problems and provides useful tips for resolving them.

Problem: No wysiwyg editor.

Solution: In many word processor applications you can export or save as a HTML file, then copy and paste into the WordPress HTML window, though this can often bring a formatting problem.

A second workaround is to setup another blog account elsewhere and to then use their wysiswyg to edit the text, then copy and paste into the HTML window.

A third solution is to go old school and use HTML code to help you format your document.

A forth depending on whether you are blogging and not creating pages, is to see if the blog accepts contributions via email, which means you can format the article from within your email client.

Problem: The Media Library is too large to find specific content.

The bigger the WordPess website generally means the larger the media library, which can result in authors spending too much time hunting for images, even with the help of the search facility.

However it all depends on what type of images you require.

There are search engine optimisation concerns to be aware of, but by having a naming scheme for images, it means content can more readily be found and the articles ready for publishing.

A good example are blog post thumbnails. Without a naming scheme they will most likely be scattered ad-hoc in a library, yet by beginning or ending each one with ‘thmb’, you can make it easy for authors to find all thumbnails quickly.

Problem: Automatically updating social networks of a specific authors blog posts.

Often an organisation won’t want each post published, but might require individual authors to mention their work via their own accounts.

WordPress can create a RSS feed for a specific author by default, which the author can then pass to a service such as twitterfeed.

Example: http://www.yourwpsite.com/author/username/feed

So instead of the author having to manually share the link, especially frustrating if they don’t control when the post is published, they can automatically have the articles shared by a service.

Conclusion

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