Comments on: 15 tips to make your WordPress blog posts less boring

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 04:17:00 +0000

Nice guidelines.
It is true that blog design really matters while you are trying to make your blog more popular.
I have been using a blog design plugin Blog Designer Pro on my blogging website. It provides very effective and user friendly way to beautify your blog pages with its beautiful templates.

By: Peacock Karen

Peacock Karen — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:45:00 +0000

Hey Martin, Nice article. We always confused about design and use the same design as well. Especially the color combination is very important in the blog. The points you shared are amazing it also helps in Internet Marketing . Thanks

By: Martin Huntbach

Martin Huntbach — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:19:00 +0000

In reply to David Withington. Thanks very much David. I'm glad I was able to help!

By: David Withington

David Withington — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:29:00 +0000

Thank you, Martin. Some great information there. Sometimes I struggle with the formatting when copying across from another document, so that particular tip is very useful to me.

By: Martin Huntbach

Martin Huntbach — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:31:00 +0000

In reply to Anne Johnston.

Thanks so much Anne. I really appreciate that. Your blog posts look great by the way.

I think it’s best to work with a platform that suits you. I know a lot of people use Cornerstone, Visual Composer etc because they find the standard WordPress editor restrictive.

This is the main reason I wrote this post, to make people aware that it is possible to produce attractive blog posts without knowing code of needing additional software.

Using the the WP editor and TinyMCE also makes it easier if you change themes in the future and cornerstone isn’t an option.

Thanks agin Anne

By: Martin Huntbach

Martin Huntbach — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:24:00 +0000

In reply to Ahmed Khalifa. Thanks so much Ahmed. Couldn't agree more. Hopefully it will comes as default in the WordPress updates to come. Fingers crossed.

By: Ahmed Khalifa

Ahmed Khalifa — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:08:00 +0000

Great article Martin. I’ve never tried to “paste and match style”. I always use the “paste as text” icon beside the indent icon in the toolbar. Good shout though!

But I agree, that the Tiny MCE plugin is so useful. It should be a default in the editor as it makes lives so much easier and your content so much better.

By: Anne Johnston

Anne Johnston — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 23:10:00 +0000

Thanks for this great blog, Martin. So many helpful tips. I keep meaning to include tweetables but forget to. Your post has prompted me.

I’ve been using Cornerstone for my blogs recently as it came with the theme and visually I find it far easier to see and work with than using the WP editor. Is there anything else I need to watch out for apart from it possibly affecting load times?

Cheers

Anne

By: Martin Huntbach

Martin Huntbach — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:56:00 +0000

In reply to Claire Brotherton. Thanks for your comments Claire.

By: Claire Brotherton

Claire Brotherton — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:35:00 +0000

Hi Martin

By coincidence, my last post was similar to yours (same plugin!) though I had a slightly different take on it. https://www.abrightclearweb.com/wordpress-post-editor-need-know/

A few points of comment:

Good point about keeping the text colour dark in relation to the background. The only issue I have using the text colour picker for this is that It’s easy for the user to act like a kid in a sweetie shop and introduce colours that are off-brand. This could look jarring on the published page.

There’s the same danger with changing the font. I don’t think Comic Sans has a place in that dropdown menu!

The text sizer in Advanced TinyMCE actually measures in point size, which is a measure for print rather than pixels for web. You’re using 2rem or 20px – not 20pt.

There is a way to change the unit type from pt to px – see my post.

You broke your own rule on links: “I always try to hyperlink a related word” with “this plugin”. 🙂

You can simply embed the video URL in WordPress rather than using the iframe, unless you have embeds disabled.

I’m going to be really picky about your use of a table for the coloured box. It’s not the right markup – it should really be a with a class. Here’s an alternative way of doing that: https://wpsites.net/wordpress-themes/colored-buttons-content-boxes/

Cheers

Claire