In the last lesson, I shared how you can beautify your newly created WordPress blog. I hope you have gone through some of those options to improve the appearance of your blog. We will learn about the ‘Tools’ section in this blog post. You can find this link tab on the left-hand side of your dashboard after login (as shown in the image below).
Under the ‘Tools’ tab, you will find a few more options, which I have explained below:
First Option: Available Tools
The first option under the Tools tab is ‘Available Tools.’ Under this link, you will find 4 sub-links, mainly ‘Press This’, ‘Categories and Tags Converter’, ‘Post by Mail’ & ‘Website Verification Services. Let’s talk about these features one by one:
a. Press This
This option lets you install an application in your bookmark bar to copy and paste texts, images, and videos directly into your WordPress post to further edit or add more. This tool helps save your time copying and pasting using different tabs of browsers. If you are a blogger who writes on topics based on ideas & facts from various sources, this tool is perfect for you.
b. Categories and Tags Converter
You can convert your categories to tags or vice versa through this link. This option is in the “Import” section, as shown in the image below.
c. Post by Mail
Using this tool, you can post & publish blog posts through emails only. This is particularly helpful when you invite other bloggers to write for your blog and don’t want them to create accounts on your blog. Using this tool, other bloggers can send their stuff through email and those posts will be published on your blog without creating an account. How to do this? Just visit the link http://yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs and create the email IDs through which you want the blogs to be posted. It’s as simple as that!
d. Website Verification Services
This tool helps prove your blog ownership for various services like Google Webmaster Tool, Bing Webmaster Center, etc., for SEO purposes. When you try to create a webmaster account with Google and Bing, they usually provide you with a meta tag to incorporate on your website or blog, which you may use using this tool to verify your ownership. Once you prove the ownership, search engines will start to gather the information and statistical details of your blog, which could help you promote your blog.
Second Option: Import
This section helps import blog posts, feedback, and pages from other blogging platforms such as Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Yahoo! 360, etc. At any given point during your blogging experience, you may wish to switch from any other blogging platform to WordPress. In that case, you may import all of your posts, comments, etc., from your old account to the new one, which helps you retain your built credibility in the blogging community.
Third Option: Delete Site
If you’ve hosted the blog on your own server and wish to delete it at any time, you may do that using this link. This will delete your website completely; however, your blog will still be available at the WordPress URL like http://yourblogname.wordpress.com. Before deleting your website, you must contact your SEO consultant because doing so may affect your online business.
Fourth Option: Export
You may use this link to export your blog posts to any other blogging platform like Blogger, Tumblr, LiveJournal, etc. Like the import option, you may export your pages, posts, and comments to any other platform.
We are done with the ‘Tools’ section, and I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post. I shall come up with the next lesson very soon, Enjoy!
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