QuickPress and Other Handy Post Options
As you may have noticed, there’s a brand new way to post on your dashboard: QuickPress! There are also lots of other tools to help you write and edit drafts and published posts.
QuickPress lets you post the basics straight from your dashboard, without navigating to the Posts menu. The essentials are all there: title, text, tags, and the media toolbar, which lets you add images, videos, music, documents, and polls.
You can save from QuickPress as a draft or publish straight away. Posts made through QuickPress will appear in the Posts menu after they’re saved.
To add a new post the traditional way, go to Add New under Posts in the menu on your dashboard. All the modules and screen options on this page can be changed to whatever suits your needs.
A few key changes to note on Add New:
- Privacy settings and sticky posts options are now tucked under Visibility in the Publish module.
- Comments, pingbacks and trackbacks settings are in the new Discussion module. When there are comments on a post, they will appear here, and can be moderated from within the module. Sending Trackbacks has its own module for including URLs.
- The Publish button now changes to more clearly correspond to the action you’re taking. If you’ve set your post to publish on a future date, the Publish button will change to say Schedule. Posts that have already been published will show an Update button.
- There’s now a separate Save Draft button, near the Preview button.
Moving on to the Edit Posts page…
You can view your posts in an Excerpt view, which you can activate by clicking on the icon in the upper right of your screen. This will display the first bit of your post under its title.
Drafts are now shown alongside published posts in the All Posts view, in the order of their modification date.
Action links are another super-handy addition. They’re essentially shortcuts that allow you to take action on an item straight from your dashboard. Action links appear on the Edit Posts page when you hover near a post title. These options are: Edit, Quick Edit, Delete, and View/Preview.
Quick Edit is the counterpart to QuickPress. It allows you to swiftly and easily change these attributes of a post: title, slug, date, author, password protection and privacy, categories, tags, comments and pings settings, status, and sticky post. Be sure to click Update Post when you’re done to save your changes.
Lastly, you can batch edit posts to do a range of nifty things like add categories, change the author, and publish multiple posts at once. To do this, check the boxes next to the posts you want to change, and select the type of action you want to take from the Actions drop-down menu at the top left of the column. Click Apply, and it’s done!
There’s lots of new stuff, so check out this Support page for more details on QuickPress and other features.
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thanks for this! I find it hard actually to compose a new post in the Quickpress due to the limited space. Now i know how! 😉
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Quick Edit is great! Best of all the new stuff, and all the bits I have tried so far are all OK.
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I think quickpress is the best new tool yet.
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I can’t even believe in so many improvements! Congratulations and, more than that, thank you very much!
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Lovin’ the new layout and all these nifty improvements. I love WP more than everrrrr!
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Great addition for sure. I’m looking forward to someone adding a howto on importing your Pownce content. They are closing down and recommend we move our postings, but little information is provided on how to make the move.
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Wow!! Thats kinda great!! Keep going WP!! I will watch out for next week’s tips!! 🙂
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How about a quickedit option in blog front end view? It’ll be very interesting and usefull! 🙂
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Wow… do you guys sleep?
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I think I would like the Quick Press area more if I could change my categories as well — I don’t really use tags, but I do use the categories……
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Thank you for all the changes and improvements. I especially like the Batch Edit function. Cheers!
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Thank you very much for these explanations – they really make things easier to understand.
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I think this is great…I think it would probably be a little more valuable if it were possible to assign categories and tags within the QuickPress pane, but it’s still pretty handy.
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Tags are an option within QuickPress, but not categories at this time.
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Thank you, quick edit quick show 🙂
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Now if only 2.7 would be released to the rest of us!
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This IS awesome. WordPress is a f**king great thing! It’s the second best thing since the internet…haha…well, I love wordpress!
http://www.thebillionairejournal.wordpress.com
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Man, I spoke too soon 🙂 I see Matt’s just posted it!
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I like quick press a lot. I wish there were a box where I could type in the categories I wanted to use (we’ve got one for tags) because I’d rather type in my desired categories by hand anyway than scroll through a list for a desired one and with no way to enter categories on quick press I have to save and then edit the post and pick the ones I want.
But really, I do enjoy the feature quite a bit.
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It is interesting to note the Quickpress and many more additions in the new format.Congratulations. Thanks.
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i’d prefer to use the usual way, because the quickpress space is too small for me, i think
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I still dont get it, in which condition we need quick press? I find one click through traditional way (is not hard enough to do. And we can still categorize posts.
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If you have your dashboard bookmarked, it won’t take any clicks at all (beyond Publish) to post through QuickPress.
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WP 2.7 Rock! really great and just perfect for today blogging 😉
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Looks good. I’ll check it out.
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Quickpress is good. However, I find that the usability is compromised due to the lack of categories. I know the wordpress team wishes to keep quickpress as simple as possible, but not being able to post to the right category keeps me from using quickpress. I honestly would have rather “tags” be gone, than “categories”.
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Hello,
I like QuickPress but there is not “Insert Link”!
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You can write your own HTML in QuickPress to add links.
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Yes, i can add link manually….but in my opinion the essentials are: text, link, photo, quote, video
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Everything is great! Now if we can just get more themes….
Ah a girl can dream.
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Love all the new features. Thanks WP team for all your hard work.
Can’t wait for threaded comments — are they still coming soon?
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They are in the pipeline. 🙂
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I LOVE ♥ ♥ QuickPress!! Saves a lot of time!!! 😀
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Nice update WP!
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cool, i love QuickPress!
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Its great to see these new features.. I especially liked quickedit
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I love the way we can adds tags and categories on the fly. I always forget to tag or categorise properly and this is a god send! Thanks!!
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Wow! This is awesome AND simple; thank you.
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hey! how do I see the list of incoming links? It doesnt seem to show up anymore except for the last few…
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Click on Configure and you can view the URL of the same feed that the dashboard widget uses.
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I love the new features! Thank you! 🙂
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Nice useful addition to the dashboard but:
“make your QuickPress module extra-long by grabbing the bottom righthand corner […] and dragging it down.” – this can’t be done because a scrollbar is visible instead of the diagonal lines.
I think their should also be a catergories box in the quick post box
cheers
Go Team WP!
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Heather – a link button will make it so so much easier than trying to write out all that lengthy HTML
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I don’t understand what page parent means and how it works?
Could you explain that. Because I have 3 page that are all alike and If i could do the page parent thing it would probably make my home page a lot less cluttered and the three pages a ton cooler.
Thanks
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Page parents create a hierarchy within pages, which you assign. So, for example, Fruit could be the parent page of Apple. This decreases the amount of pages that display in tabs on your blog, and lets you have a higher level of organization. You can assign a parent to a page in the Attributes module on the edit screen for a page.
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I love it! 😀
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would really like to see a DRAFT link under the Posts menu bar on the left so users can get to Drafts from any location in the back-end
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Very Nice! Thanks for the overview!
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It’s so simple and so quick,amazing, i like it, but easier much better
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Loving quickpress but can I just ask that we add a ‘link’ button to the upload/insert list?
or am I missing it somewhere else? gah!
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That’s currently not one of the options. You can add your own HTML, however.
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I think I would like the Quick Press area more if I could change my categories as well — I don’t really use tags, but I do use the categories……
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Thanks for the heads up on the new features!
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The quick edit would be useful if it had a hyperlink tool. Inserting links is surely more common than adding videos, music, documents, and polls. Remove those 4. I love being able to upload an image in quick edit, but I want to bold words and add hyperlinks too. Add those 2. 🙂
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Great work all! So glad I moved to wordpress.
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You have written:
“You can make your QuickPress module extra-long by grabbing the bottom righthand corner of the Content area and dragging it down”
Actually, no — that doesn’t work for me (it does work on the standard New Post Content area though).
Any advice?
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This might be a compatibility issue with your browser. It works for me. The two expand the box in different ways, which is probably where the issue is coming from. Contact support if you still can’t get it after trying again. They can help you out. 🙂
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Thanks, i had the same problem that “yeloman” (post 11)
THANK YOU! 😛
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Thank you for all the changes and improvements. I especially like the Batch Edit function. Cheers!
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I have a sugestion… why you don’t include the insert link option??
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Thanx for all the tim WP.
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This one is cool, but it doesn’t have all the necessary tools I need to post an item. Anyway that’s the reason you call it QuickPress right? It’s a good addition though.
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Nice improvement.Now it goes easier.Thanks.
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thanks for all
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i like it. although im still learning on how to use it, but its really great.
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QuickPress is interesting and kinda fun, but when I want to include a link, which is in almost every post, QP is out.
But I totally appreciate all of the effort you have invested into the idea.
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Glad to see you are continually working on new and better features for WordPress. I’ve enjoyed creating my new blog over the past year – this tool make creating a blog fun and easy! 🙂
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I liked QuickPress but i wish it had something to change the categories… tooo bad 😦
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Thank you for answering my question. Quickpress indeed saves a lot of time.
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All of the changes are well thought out. The quick press at first seemed not necessary, but now I use it for quick drafts before my ideas leave me….then I go back and finish at a later time. I like it because I don’t have to change screens….everything is right there.
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how can i put spaces in my blogs name
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You can change the title of your blog under Settings > General in your dashboard.
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Great update WordPress! QuickPress is really handy for my short and straight to the point posts on my blog. However some people are saying that they use Categories more than Tag, but other people (myself included) prefer to use both. Maybe getting rid of the Video, Music, and Document buttons and replacing them with a Hyperlink button. For people who want bold text on QuickPress use this to help:
Bold : CTRL + B
Italic : CTRL + I
Underline : CTRL + U
All in all a very handy and helpful update from the WordPress team!
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Amazing stuff – The Quick Post option will work well with Micro-blogging lovers..
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Well, I’m here. This is all new to me but I think I have just set up my first blog?
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I hate the new layout for adding new posts… the only way I can see words on the far-left is by using the options and excluding tags and so on, only to choose them again in the end, when i’m finishing the post. it takes more time than it should. that’s simply awful.
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It looks okay to me without having to make those changes. Do you want to send our support team an email and they can see if there are any settings that can be changed on your end?
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yup i like Quickpress too, but I wish I could add Categories on it…I only see tags…Really enjoying many of the new changes! thanks!!
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How Do I get pages on my blog?
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You can add pages under Pages > Add New in your dashboard.
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I thought this “quickpress” is somekind of a “twitter” thing. Is there a twitter plugin? But all in all i like the new sleek style of wordpress.
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Plugins are only for the self-hosted version of WordPress, available through WordPress.org. Please check out this page for information on using Twitter with WordPress.
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Thanx for all the tim WP.
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Muito Bom! Nice! xD
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please add the “categories” to the quick post 🙂
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Great job, WordPress team! Keep up the excellent work…
-Aussie229
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Quickpress is not necessary. When composing a new post I think we need more tools than a simple press-to-publish thing.
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I LOVE everything about the new dashboard! Thanks WordPress!!!!!
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My Quickpress does not show a draggable bottom righthand corner in the Content area or nowhere else
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That’s AWESOME! Keep up the “AWESOME” work WordPress team!! I will keep looking for more tips if there is any more! 😉 Bye!
~Pinkgirl3919
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me too would like 2 choose categories in quickpress.
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‘Totally Rad’ indeedy 😉
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If you are going to have two post states then name them consistently “Published” and “Drafted” you are confusing adjectives and nouns.
I know that most wordpress users want to be entertained, I want good government.
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Hey! Thanks for the Information!
Keep up the good work WP.
MuslimahBlog
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Is it just my browser, my computer…or is WordPress stripping away even the formatting that it does provide, such as text colour and justification??? Nothing I insert using the editor is “sticking”…as soon as I save a post, the formatting vanishes.
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This sounds like a browser issue. Try clearing your cache, cookies, etc. and making sure you are editing in the visual mode and then trying again.
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I’m having lots of fun with this and great learning tips along the way!
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Yup. Another vote for insert link in Quickpress.
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Thank you so much for this! WordPress has been doing a darned good job making our lives a whole bunch easier!
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Yay wordpress!
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