The True Power of Twitter – Marketing Essentials
The next tab we need to understand is the Media tab. The truth is that there is never really a need to go into this folder. In every post and page, directly above the post box there is a button that says “Add Media.” From here you can do basically anything you could do from within the Media tab, but I will explain it here (since I purposely skipped over it in the Posts tips.)
Just think of your media library as your Pictures folder on your computer. The problem is that it’s only organized by the order of how you put it on the site. So it’s probably closer to the folder on your SD card from your camera. You can search your media library based on the name or description that you give it. (NOTE: For SEO purposes you should give every picture you have a good name and alt text, so it is even more of a reason to do it.)
After Media is Pages. Pages are almost exactly the same as posts, except there are a few things to look at when in a page editor as opposed to the post editor.
When we discussed the Yoast SEO plugin within posts we mentioned that you should most likely not change the SEO title. For your pages probably should change your titles. Many times, the name of your pages are listed on the top of your site for people to get to easily. So while “Contact Us,” “Subscribe,” or “Services” are a great titles for the actual site, they are horrible for SEO, so you should most likely change the SEO title on your pages.
In some themes (like The7 by Dream Theme, the theme I use has this feature) you can turn off the sidebar on your pages, while you would probably never do this for posts, it makes sense for some pages to not have a sidebar. For example, if you have a contact form in your sidebar, but you are on the contact form page it probably shouldn’t have a sidebar…
At this point we have covered all of the basic tools for WordPress, and you should be able to use it on daily basis (See WordPress isn’t that bad). We will still continue going through more features tomorrow.
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