OK. At the top of the page you'll see two checkboxes: "Visual Editor" and "Syntax Highlighting".
The point? The first box will allow you to "hide" the visual editor when writing. Usually when you are creating content you have two tabs, "Visual" and "Text":
By default you'll be taken to the visual editor where you can see the visual changes in your content as you work. In the text editor you're only seeing the HTML:
But many people like to use HTML and if you are one of them, turn on the "Disable the visual editor when writing" option and the visual tab will be removed from the default view:
The second checkbox will allow you to use syntax highlighting in your HTML code.
Next, you'll see eight different color schemes that will allow you to change the appearance of your admin panel. Obviously, it's a personal option and won't change how anyone else sees your content. Personally I prefer the "Midnight" scheme ...
The next two checkboxes "Keyboard Shortcuts" and "Toolbar" are pretty self-explanatory ...
And finally, your actual user profile where you can enter or update your personal information:
Awesome training (as always) - thank you very much! ;-)
Zed, I've read somewhere (not on WA), that one should preferably publish your blogposts under a user with the bare minimum rights (ie user "Sharlee" with only Contributor rights) and then "approve" my posts through the back-end.
Their thinking was that in the event one's account/password get guessed, they can only get into the limited "contributor" profile.
Your thoughts on this, Zed? Is there any substance to their reasoning?
Looking forward to hearing from you! ;-)
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)
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If they guessed you password they have access to the admin area, so they can create a new admin user ...
Is there anything regarding to user rights, that we can do to make our WP websites safer? Or less vulnerable? (Whichever way one wants to look at it.) :-)
