Introducing the HTML Editor and Toolbar

If you are a veteran HTML user, you may prefer to write in the HTML editor window of the post box. Even if you are not an HTML vet, you need to know about it when things do not go as expected with the WYSIWYG editor.

You can find the HTML editor on the New Post Page by clicking the HTML tab at the top of the post box.

What Is HTML?

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HTML, which is short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the publishing language for web pages. HTML, using instructions called tags, tells browsers how to display text and other content on a web page.

Benefit of the HTML Editor

As handy as the WordPress WYSIWYG editor is, ...

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