Manage Posts - Your List of Posts

When you visit the manage posts page of your admin section you will be faced with some search options and a list of the posts in your blog.

The search options include:-

Search Terms
Type in the word you want to search for and all the relevant posts will be displayed in a list for you.

Status
Search through your published, draft or private posts.

Month
Select a month and you will be shown all the posts that were published in that month.
Category
Select a category to view a list of the posts from that category only.

The detailed list of posts has several columns which mean:-

ID
This is a unique ID number for the posts.  It is this number that your WordPress database uses to identify your posts

When
This is the exact date and time that your post was published on to your blog.

Title
This is the title you gave your post when it was created.

Categories
This section will list all of the categories that you published the post too.  Each category name is also a link to view the category on your blog.

Comments
This section contains a number. This is the amount of comments which have been made on that particular post.  The number is also a link to theManage Comments page where you can manage the comments on that post.

Author
This is the name of the user who published the post to your blog.

View
This is a link so that you can view how the rest of the world will see your post.

Edit
This is a link so that you can edit the content of the post.  You will be directed to the Write Post page where you can ammend the content of your post and change the options.

Delete
Beware…… This permanently deletes the post.  You will see a warning which will tell you that, once deleted, it cannot be undeleted.

The Manage Tab

In the manage tab you have 7 sub options.  These are:- (please click to continue to the relevant page)

  • Posts
  • Pages
  • Uploads
  • Categories
  • Files
  • Import
  • Export

All the content of your WordPress blog can be managed through your Admin section.  The manage tab concentrates on the phsical content of your websites like your posts, pages, categories, uploads and files.  You can also manage the import and export of your blogs content on the manage tab.

WP Plugins

In the section we will be adding useful links to new, updated and exsisting WP Plugins.

WordPress Themes

In this section we will be adding the following

  • WP Themes that we have designed (and you can download for free)
  • WP Themes that we have designed for clients (you will be unable to download these)
  • Themes that others have designed that you can download for free
  • Themes that others have designed that you will be unable to download

If you find these useful then please link to us and come back again soon.

WordPress Tutorials

If there are any specific tutorials you would like to see in this section, please let us know.

WordPress 2.4 Skipped. Here comes WP 2.5

We have just learnt that the 2.4 release of WordPress will be skipped.  We will are looking forward to March for when WP 2.5 is released. The main reason for this is that the developers feel there are lots more new and exciting things happening to WordPress, they just didn’t want to rush it.

The 2.5 release should have a large amount of changes in the codebase and the look of the admin section.

We will keep you posted.

A little about Neil Thurlwell

In my previous post I only told you how long I have been in the industry.  Well I have done a lot in my time.

I started off in the sales department of Business Serve.  This is where my thirst for the internet started.  Unfortunatley I missed the .com boom which I was really annoyed about, but what the hay !  I moved from the sales department of Business Serve and became an account manager.  No, not one of those guys who plays with numbers all day…….. I managed around 1000 customer accounts, advising and helping them get the most from their websites.  I then decided that I could help my clients even more if I learnt first hand what I was talking about.

So I started learning html.  I remember giving up after about half an hour on my first attempt.  I don’t think learning code at 6am with a hangover was such a good idea.  I soon started again.  I then registered a couple of domain names.  LRJH Kids and Fleece Blankets.  These were 2 of my first websites I ever built and to look back now on www.archive.org I cringe at the state of them but we all start somewhere.

I decided then to set up my own business selling kids bedding and blankets, as I already had a really good generic domain name.  This progressed to heavily using eBay and getting in to sportswear and mobile phone accessories (I own www.simfree.com if anyone wants to buy it).

The 2 main areas I decided to concentrate my efforts were web design and seo.  I needed the web design to design a good website and then seo to make sure I was getting plenty of traffic.  As I started to become more knowledgable and professional in these areas I decided to set up my own business doing design and seo for clients.  This was (and still is Business Internet Consultants).  One thing lead to another and I left my business for a nice little job co-managing SEO Studio which I then ran for a while before leaving.

I now work for Customer Street in the seo department.  Although I’m in the Customer Street SEO department I sit on the fence between seo and design.  I even run my own blog about Customer Street Webdesign.  The main issue I see is that web designers and seo guru’s don’t tend to mix.  One does one and the other does the other.  This is WRONG…..They should work hand in hand to ensure that the website looks good, functions correctly and gets high rankings on the search engines.

Is that too much to ask ?

Not anymore.

My first WordPress post

Welcome to the wonderful world of WordPress.

Here we want to give you some handy hints, tips and tricks for WordPress along with giving you the news you need to hear in a language you understand.

My name is Neil Thurlwell and I have been in this industry for about 7-8 years. This is not as long as some but don’t worry, we will pay our respects to the good guys later in this blog.

With everyone blogging nowadays it’s hard to find blogs that you want to read or even subscribe to the RSS feeds for. I’m going to change all that for you, as I’m going to dedicate this website to the best blogging and content management system the world has ever seen.

Thank you WordPress