Adding Content with the Visual Editor
The editor used to enter content into your Post is very easy to use. It’s much like using a regular word processor, with toolbar buttons that allow you to Bold or Italicize text or enter in Headings or bullet points. You can even use most of the basic keyboard shortcuts used in other text editors. For example: Shift+Enter inserts a line break, Ctrl+C/Cmd+C = copy, Ctrl+X/Cmd+X = cut, Ctrl+Z/Cmd+Z = undo, Ctrl+Y/Cmd+Y = redo, Ctrl+A/Cmd+A = select all, etc. (use the Ctrl key on a PC or the Command key on a Mac).
At the top of the editor there are two tabs, Visual and Text. These switch the editor view between the Visual Editor and the Text editor. The Text view will enable you to view the HTML code that makes up your content. For the more experienced users this can be helpful at times but for those not familiar with HTML tags, it’s not recommended.
At the top of the editor where your content is written, there are numerous formatting buttons. Clicking the Toolbar Toggle button will show or hide a second line of formatting buttons, which gives you extra functionality.
The editor buttons perform the following functions:
Add Media – Used to upload and insert media such as images, audio, video or documents
Bold – Bold text
Italic – Italicize text
Strikethrough – Add a strikethrough to your text
Bulleted List – Create an unordered (bullet point) list
Numbered List – Create an Ordered (numbered) list
Blockquote – Used as a way of showing a quote. How this looks will be entirely dependent on the Theme that your site is currently using
Horizontal Line – Inserts a horizontal line into your page
Align Left – Align text to the left
Align Center – Align text in the center of the page
Align Right – Align text to the right
Insert/edit link – Used to create an html link to another page or website. The text or image that you want to link needs to be selected first before the button will become active
Remove link – Remove the html link from the selected link. Your cursor must be sitting on an active link for the button to be active
Insert Read More tag – Inserts the More tag into your Page. Most blogs only display a small excerpt of a Post and you’re required to click the Post title or a ‘Read more...’ link to continue reading the rest of the article. When you insert a ‘More’ tag into your Post, everything prior to the tag is considered as this excerpt. Most times you’d only use this button when you’re creating a blog Post, rather than a Page
Toolbar Toggle – Used to show or hide the second row of formatting buttons on the editor toolbar
Distraction Free Writing – Clicking this button will enlarge the editor so that it fills the browser window. Clicking the Exitfullscreen link at the top of the screen will reduce it back to its original size
Style – Used to format the Page text based on the styles used by the current Theme
Underline – Underline your text
Justify – Align text on both the left and right (i.e. justify)
Text color – Use to change the color of text
Paste as text – Copying and pasting text from other sites or word processors sometimes leaves the text formatted differently to what you were expecting. The reason for this is that quite often the html tags or codes that formatted the original text are pasted along with the text itself. To avoid this, Paste as Text will strip all these formatting and html tags. The Paste as Text option acts like a toggle, staying on until you turn it off by clicking the button again or until you save your page content
Clear formatting – Use this to remove all the formatting (e.g. Bold, Underline, text color etc..) from the highlighted text
Special character – Used to insert special characters not easily accessible via the keyboard (e.g. ¼, ½, ¾, ©, €, ö etc..)
Decrease indent – Removes one level of indenting
Increase indent – Indents text by one level
Undo – Undo your last action
Redo – Redo your last action
Keyboard shortcuts – Displays information about the Hubbli Visual Editor along with keyboard shortcuts
Visual/Text – Switches the editor view between the Visual Editor and the Text editor. The Text view will enable you to view the HTML code that makes up your content. For the more experienced users this can be helpful at times but for those not familiar with HTML tags, it’s not recommended