WordPress Users: Know (a Little) HTML

If You Use WordPress, it Doesn’t Hurt to Know HTML

WordPress users, I’m not trying to turn you into a coding ninja nerd — but I do want to show you that there are times it’s just simpler if you know a little bit of the language that runs the internet. The letters HTML stand for hypertext markup language. There’s no reason you need to understand that, so I’ll stop there. There are a few HTML tags you need to know.

<h1> through <h6> | These are heading tags. It’s good to know them because when Google indexes your site, it looks for the <h1> tag first; this is your page title. The next highest subhead is <h2>. Any heading nested under <h2> is <h3>, and so on. These headings help organize your content in a way that both Google and the reader can easily understand. Here’s how you add a heading or subhead. Use them hierarchically as they are intended.

Formatting lists | There are two kinds of HTML lists: ordered and unordered. An ordered list uses numbers, and an unordered list uses bullets. Both are easy to do in WordPress. Notice in the…