As covered earlier, WordPress is an open-source CMS that allows users to create, manage and update content on their websites. With a robust ecosystem of plugins and themes WordPress can be customized to suit any website use-case.

Managing Posts

In WordPress, posts are one of the primary ways to publish content. Whether its a personal blog, news website or any other kind of website.

Creating and Editing Posts

• Log in to WordPress Dashboard
• Navigate to Posts Section in the Left Menu
• Click Add New Post

• Add a Title and start adding content

• For updating existing posts, Go to All posts.

• Select a post to update
• Save and Publish to web

Organizing Posts

Posts in WordPress can be organized using categories and tags.

Categories are used to group posts with similar topics together, Tags on the other hand are used to specify keywords relevant to the post.

We can also use these to perform SEO and add content metadata.

Anti-Spam Measures

Spam can often overwhelm the comment section of a site. To combat this, in WordPress there are several tools which help with this.
These remove unwanted content and spam from a WordPress site.

Default Anti-Spam tools

• Akismet: Akismet is a popular anti-spam tool which comes preinstalled with WordPress. It automatically checks comments and form submission and filters out malicious content.
• Comment Moderation: This is a setting which can be enabled from Settings > Discussion. This allows the Site Admin to review comments before they appear on the website.

Additional Anti-Spam Measures

• CAPTCHA: Adding CAPTCHA to comment forms can prevent bots from submitting spam.
• Third-Party Plugins: Plugins like WP SpamShield or Antispam Bee offer more advanced spam protection features offering extra layers of security.

Backup, Import, and Export

One of the best practices for managing any WordPress site is regularly backing up its content. WordPress has built-in tools and plugins to simplify backup, import, and export processes.

Backing up

• Manual Backup: A complete WordPress backup of the site’s files and its database is possible and can be manually downloaded from the server, but this can be time-consuming and often error prone.
• Automatic Backup: Plugins like UpdraftPlus, VaultPress, and BackWPup provide an easy way to schedule automatic backups. These plugins can also store backups in cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox.

Importing Content

If someone needs to move content from one WordPress site to another, the Import feature allows us to transfer posts, pages, comments, and more.

To use this navigate to Tools > Import and select WordPress. From there, the user can upload an XML file containing the content.

Exporting Content

WordPress also allows us to export your content in an XML format.

To use this, go to Tools > Export, and select the content to be exported (posts, pages, media, etc.).

This is especially useful for backing up specific parts of the site or migrating content to a new domain.

Conclusion

Managing posts and comments are the core aspect of handling a site in WordPress, adding to these regular backups and anti-spam measures makes up for a safe, secure, stable and well organized website.