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Use QuickPress, as shown in Figure 4.1, for jotting down a quick thought or bringing in a media
item for later editing before you publish. You can even use it to post a “coming soon” note for your
blog that you then delete when you post a full entry. (You can edit the “coming soon” note into a
complete entry.)
Figure 4.1
Use QuickPress to get a draft into your queue of work
or to quickly add a brief post to your blog.
Posting with QuickPress from the Dashboard is easy:
1. Enter the title. Entering an interesting and entertaining title is always worth a bit of thought,
even if you're in a hurry.
2. Enter the text.
3. Add any images or multimedia. For any but the simplest media nugget, you should probably be
working in the full Add New Post/Edit Post editing area.
4. Enter tags. Always tag posts carefully; they give your post legs for future reuse and help with
search engines. See Chapter 5.
5. Click Save Draft to capture your entry for later rework or Publish to put it straight on the Web.
As you will have seen if you've used WordPress before, QuickPress not only gives you very little
room to work, it also lacks several elements of the full Add New Post/Edit Post area. Its most impor-
tant deficits include the following:
Spell checking —If you commonly misspell, this alone might
be a stopper for you.
HTML tools —You can't easily access HTML features, such
as bulleted text, bolding, or linking, and there is no mode for
viewing HTML-tagged text.
Access to categorization —Although there is a strip for tag-
ging, there's no list of categories to assign your post to.
Direct switching into a larger-screen mode —You have to
Save Draft or Publish before you can access your post in reg-
ular editing mode or Full-Screen mode.
note
Using QuickPress is like writing the
short, highly formatted poems
called haiku: You use the con-
straints involved to create some-
thing that's better because it's
appropriate to the tool. Learn to
use QuickPress when you need to
get a short, punchy post entered
and saved as a draft or published;
that's its purpose.
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