If you want to split up lines within a paragraph using the visual editor in WordPress, you know that hitting the return key just produces a new paragraph, so what to do? Here’s what:
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Currently we’re only covering installed versions of WordPress, but in future we’ll be adding tutorials on the hosted version at WordPress.com.
Videos are classified by WordPress 2.7 or 2.6 mostly because the admin screens look different, so if you don’t see a video on your topic, try looking in the other section or try the alphabetical listing.
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You have WP 2.7 if your admin screen looks like this:
WordPress 2.7 
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
WordPress 2.6 
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You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Text editor – overview
Here’s a quick overview of the text editor in WordPress 2.6, with both Visual or WYSIWYG, and HTML functionality.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Formatting lists
If you’ve got text that you want to format into a list, either with bullets or numbering, it’s a snap in WordPress, and so is your ability to style the list the way you want.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Setting a future publishing date for posts or pages
If you want to make a post or a page automatically appear on your site at some future date, here’s how.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Writing a post – overview
Want to write a post in Wordpress? This is the place to start.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Adjusting the size of the text editor
The default size of the box for entering and editing the text of posts and pages is fairly small. There are a couple of ways to give yourself more writing area.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Highlighting quotes or text blocks
If you want to make larger areas of text stand out from all the rest – when quoting someone, for example – then here’s how to do it with “block quoting” in WordPress.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Basic text editing functions
Here’s quick look at basics such as bolding text or changing its color.
You have WP 2.6 if your admin screen looks like this:
Writing a page – overview
The basics of creating a new static page in Wordpress.
