WordPress – Writing Setting
The Writing Settings in WordPress control the content creation experience and allow you to customize various features of your site. These settings manage options for adding and editing posts, pages, and custom post types, as well as optional features like Remote Publishing, Posting via Email, and Update Services.c
Steps to Access Writing Settings:
Step 1 − Go to Settings → Writing in your WordPress dashboard.
Step 2 − The Writing Settings page will appear, as shown in the screenshot below.
Details of the Writing Settings Fields
- Formatting − This section has two options to enhance the user experience:
- Convert emoticons like and to graphics on display – Changes text-based emoticons into graphical ones.
- WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically – Fixes any invalid XHTML within posts or pages.
- Default Post Category − The category automatically assigned to new posts. You can leave it as Uncategorized.
- Default Post Format − Determines the post format used by themes, allowing different styles for different types of posts.
- Post via E-mail − Allows publishing posts via email. You must set up a secret email account with POP3 access, and any email sent to this address will be published on your site.
- Mail Server − The POP3-compatible mail server that WordPress will use to retrieve emails. Enter the server address, such as mail.example.com.
- Login Name − The username for the secret email account used to post via email. Keep it confidential to prevent spam.
- Password − The password for the email account specified above.
- Default Mail Category − The category assigned to posts published via the “Post via Email” feature.
- Update Services − WordPress will notify the listed update services whenever a new post is published. You can see the full list of possible services in the WordPress codex.
Step 3 − After configuring all fields, click the Save Changes button to save your settings.
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