Posts » New Post Screen
Contents
- Editor
- Publish
- Post Title and Permalink URL
- Post Format
- Tags and Categories
- Writing Helper
- Recommendations
- Discussion
- Likes and Shares
- Post Author
- Excerpt
- Trackbacks
- Troubleshooting
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When creating a new post on WordPress.com, you may notice that you have a variety of boxes, also known as “modules”. These modules offer customizable options for publishing your post, such as adding Tags to entry or selecting whether or not comments are allowed on your post.
Editor
The Editor is where you type the content of your post. For more information on using your editor, please see this guide.
Publish
The publish module includes your Post Status, Post Visibility, and when your post was published.
The Post Status shows whether a post is published or unpublished.
- Published – The post has been published on your blog for all to see.
- Scheduled – When the post’s timestamp is set in the future for automatic publishing. See Schedule a Post for more information.
- Pending Review – The post has been submitted by a Contributor. It must be published by an Editor or Administrator before it is visible to blog readers.
- Draft – An unpublished post. The post will not be visible to readers until the post is published.
You can learn more about changing your Post Visibility, including password protecting a post, here. You can also schedule a post by following this guide.
Post Title and Permalink URL
The Title and URL of a post are related by default. When you initially type the title of your post, the post slug (used in the permalink/URL) is automatically created.
The post slug is the part of the URL after the date in a post’s URL. When the default post slug is created, all letters will be converted to lowercase, spaces will be exchanged with dashes, and any special characters will be removed.
You can modify the post slug by clicking the Edit button next to it. When you’re finished editing, click OK. After you are done making your changes don’t forget to click the Update button to update the post and save these changes.
This is especially handy if, for example, your page title is very long, but you would like a URL that people can remember more easily.
If your language uses a non-western character set, long post titles can break post slugs. To fix that, shorten the post slug to a single word.
Keep in mind that only the post slug can be changed. You cannot change any other part of the url such as removing the date.
Post Format
For themes that support post formats, you have the ability to select which format you’d like to use for each post. Learn more about formatting options here.
Tags and Categories
Tags and categories allow you to group your posts together and take advantage of our Topics pages to connect with the WordPress.com community. You can learn more about adding tags and categories to your posts here. For more information on the difference between tags and categories, take a look at our Categories vs. Tags support page.
Writing Helper
The Writing Helper helps you to finish your posts with our Copy a Post and Request Feedback tools.
Recommendations
If you have Zemanta enabled on your site, you will automatically see recommended photos, links, and tags to include in your posts. You can learn more about Zemanta and content recommendations here.
Discussion
The Discussion module is used to turn the discussion options on/off for the post. There are checkboxes for:
- Allow comments on this post
- Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this post
If you want to set the defaults for these checkboxes, you can do so in the Discussion Settings of the blog.
If you are editing a previously published post, the Discussion module would also show any comments for the post.
For more information about working with the comments in this module, please see Discussion Module Comments.
Likes and Shares
The Likes and Shares module is where you can enable or disable the Like button or Sharing buttons on your individual post. For information on modifying and activating your Sharing buttons, please visit your Settings > Sharing page.
Post Author
The Author module is used to change the author of a post. To change a post’s author, use the dropdown menu to select the new author and click Update or Publish to save the changes.
Excerpt
Some themes support using Excerpts, or summaries, of your post. To learn more about adding excerpts to your site, head on over here.
Trackbacks
Trackbacks are a way of letting other bloggers know when you’ve linked to their site. This happens automatically between WordPress.com blogs. To learn how to send trackbacks to other blogs, please visit our support page on Trackbacks.
Troubleshooting
If you’re missing one of the modules listed above on your New Post or Edit Post page, you may need to enable it in your Screen Options settings. This guide explains how to enable and disable the modules on your New Post page.
