A few beginner tips for daily (or occasional) work with WordPress. No secret hacks, but the little settings that help with the first steps with WordPress, but are easy to overlook.
Extended list view
If you use a website builder such as the Beaver Builder, you may have posts with and without the builder in your portfolio. In this case, it can be useful to be able to recognize the builder posts at a glance in the post list.
However, the link area with the corresponding entry, such as "Beaver Builder" with a green "light", only appears when the mouse pointer is over the post.
It becomes clearer if you switch from the simple to the expanded view under "Customize view". The links to each post are then always displayed and the builder posts are also directly recognizable.
Show fields in post view
You should also keep an eye on customizing the view in the detailed view of the individual pages or posts. Anyone who has ever searched in vain for the option to change the author details of a post may appreciate this simple hint. Here, under "Customize view", you can activate those fields in the post view that are hidden by default, such as the "Author" field. It is also possible to hide certain fields if you want to tidy up the view a little.
Open in new tab
If many entries in a list need to be edited one after the other, it can be frustrating to navigate back and forth between the lists and the detailed view. Depending on your personal way of working, it can help to simply open the entries from a list in a new tab.
This means that you can simply close this tab after editing and have the tab with the list view in the background at all times for further work. This way of working increases the overview, especially when the individual posts are edited with a page builder.
This is very easy on PCs by simply clicking on the post to be opened with the middle mouse button (i.e. the mouse wheel) and bang: new tab. The normal click with the left mouse button achieves the same if the Ctrl/Command key is held down.
Quick Edit
It is often not even necessary to open the respective entry to edit individual pages or posts. Changes can be made directly in the list view: Clicking on "Quick Edit" (particularly easy to find with the -> Extended list view - see above) opens a field for quick editing of a number of settings.
Duplicate entries
At the latest when writing many similar posts or pages, it becomes tedious to have to enter the same content every time. Then the desire arises to be able to simply duplicate existing entries and then adapt them.
As WordPress itself does not offer this option, suitable plugins are often among the first extensions to be installed. Several such add-ons are available free of charge; common examples include the programs Duplicate Post (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/) and Duplicate Page (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-page/).