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WordPress 3.1 Features Make Content Management Easier

March 3rd, 2011 by Erin Posted in Business | No Comments »

WordPress is just plain great. It’s so easy to use. Its features help everyone from CEOs and small business owners to busy mothers sitting at their kitchen tables manage their day-to-day blogs and Websites. And, its continual upgrades have given us that much more power over of Web content and design.

But, wait.

The latest version of WordPress – WordPress 3.1 - is even better.

The next time you log into your WordPress dashboard, consider this when you’re stalling to hit the “Please update now“ link.

WordPress 3.1 is offering tremendous new management features. Features like:

Internal linking: A very common practice in blogging is to link to other relevant content from past blog posts. In the past this was accomplished by finding the other post and copying the URL to embed in a link. No big deal unless you’ve got thousands of posts. Now, when you are editing a post in visual editor you have the ability add a link from any page or blog post, including searching through all posts, right from the link editing tool.

Post formatting: WordPress 3.1 has unveiled comes something called Post Formats. Post Formats allow theme designers to create multiple views of a blog post so that sites can have different post layouts inside the same theme for different content.

Theme designers now have the ability to create post formats that include:

- Aside – Typically short pieces of content, published without a title.

- Image Gallery – A collection of pictures in a gallery format.

- Link – A single link.

- Image – A single image.

- Quote – An inspirational or noteworthy quote with a citation.

- Status – Status updates, similar to Facebook and Twitter updates.

- Video – A single video.

- Audio – A single audio clip, like a song or a podcast.

- Chat – An instant message transcript.

Admin bar: Check out the new navigation bar that appears above posts for admins when viewing live content. This features offers easy editing directly from any blog page. And, in case you find this kind of a thing nuisance, you can switch it off by visiting your WordPress account settings.

WordPress never sits stagnant – and neither should your Website. If you haven’t jumped on the WordPress bandwagon yet – do it. Do it now. Sorry Google, but Blogger is dead.

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