Must Know Built-In Options in WordPress for Developers

Wordpress was launched for the people who enjoy blogging and it had taken the whole blogging market by a buzz, but today it has become one of the most popular eCommerce web development platform. It is also considered as the strongest content management system in the industry. Now the latest version of WordPress has many in-built options and functions that are very beneficial for the website owners.

Below mentioned are few of the latest built-in features:

Live Theme PreviewNow when you go through the list of themes that are inactive on the Manage theme page, you will see an option to preview that theme live. Once you click that option it will show you exactly how your website will look if that theme is selected.

This option is very beneficial for the developers who like custom WordPress development and it saves a lot of time. The preview will show your whole with the theme applied without actually applying the theme, so you can see it clearly and decide.

Theme CustomizerWhen you select theme preview option, you will also see an option called theme customizer that helps developers to edit and modify the themes according to their requirement. You have many options to work with like Site title, Colors, header and background images, Navigation and static front page.

The best part you can do all those changes without activating the theme, once all the changes done and you like it then you can hit the button "Save and Activate" to apply it on your website or else you can simply cancel it.

This option is now widely used by Wordpress developer Brisbane to change the themes of the websites regularly.

HTML in Image CaptionsThis option is been waited from very long as developers were frustrated because they were not allowed to add HTML to image captions and the main issue was there not option to create link in captions. However, now this problem is solved as it was never there.

Twitter EmbeddingDo you remember how you had to embed tweets in your websites or pages? It was never much easier but today you can just copy and paste the URL into your WordPress editor and the job is done. Once the complete URL is copied you will find that all the links are active including Follow button, something to enjoy right?Not only this many more functions are there where you just need to copy and paste certain codes and that has got many fans around the globe for WordPress.

YouTube Video EmbeddingIf your blog has a video then the chances of attracting more viewers are very high and it has become a trend to do so, but how? Well with WordPress latest version it is just task of few seconds, all you have to do is copy the complete URL of the video and the video will be embed in your blog.

All these above mentioned features and more have made WordPress as the main tool for the Australian website development companies.

Author is an experienced web developer and designer working with a reputed company providing website development services. Author has written many posts on all web development platforms.