THE WORDPRESS EDITOR TOOLBAR MENU

When you come into the WordPress editor for the first time, only half of the editor toolbar menu buttons will be visible, as seen in the above image. Available to you are the Add Media button and then the following buttons of the top row.

Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Bulleted List, Numbered List, Blockquote, Horizontal Line, Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Insert/Edit Link, Remove Link, Insert Read More Tag, and Toolbar Toggle. Over on the extreme right side are the tabs for the “Visual” mode which you currently reside in and “Text” mode.

But there are more important features of the toolbar that need to be displayed and utilized, that will enhance and even help with the SEO of your page or post, mainly as Heading Tags. As seen in the above image, you will need to click on the Toolbar Toggle to see more editor features.

As seen in the above image, another row of editor toolbar menu buttons become available. The first feature is the drop down menu for Heading Tags but by default it is always set in “Paragraph” mode which basically means the normal sized font in which you write the bulk of your content in. The rest of the buttons are…

Underline, Justify, a drop down menu for Text Color, Paste as Text, Clear Formatting, Special Character, Decrease Indent, Increase Indent, Undo, Redo, and Keyboard Shortcuts. Personally for me, I only use two of the functions of this second row of features, see below.

The first one I use, as seen above, is for the setting of my Heading Tags. Heading Tags are used to break up the text and to identify what the upcoming paragraphs are about. I personally use Heading 3, also known as an H3 tag. Though it is said that an H1 and an H2 tag should be used for better SEO, the majority of WordPress themes will use H1 and H2 for the page/post titles by default.

The second feature I use in the second row of the toolbar menu is that of the Text Color, see image above. I mainly use this to color my Heading Tags. NOTE: When coloring your Heading Tags, use the same color throughout your entire website content. Using multiple colors are too distracting.