Writing a blog post is fun, you power up WordPress, go to the admin, click on Write and add your title. You then click in the post input box and start writing (like I’m doing now) but you soon fill up your post input box. That’s no problem though is it because you can scroll right? Yeah but that’s a bit tedious when you need to scroll back to read what you posted.

So here are three killer tips for you to maximise your post input.

1. Resize the window

Take a look at the bottom right hand corner of the post input window (and edit window for that matter) and see that the blue bar has a grey chevron icon in it. Click, hold and drag down (or up), this will resize the window.

This is very useful, but the change isn’t permanent and the next time you write or edit it’s back to its normal size.

2. Hit the blue button

This isn’t a facility of older incarnations of WordPress. Along the row of icons (starting with B then I then ABC etc) is an icon of a blue button it should be about the 2nd from last icon. If you click that the whole input box goes full screen and everything else disappears from the display. Now you have maximum input space. To get back to normal you click the button again and the usual input page is returned. Please note saving or publishing is not possible in this full screen state.

3. Permanently resize the input window.

This option is so understated I never realised it was there. In the admin, go to Settings, then click on the Writing tab. The first option is: ‘Size of the post box’. All you need to do is increase the value in this field and hit save. Then the next time you go to your write or edit page the input window will be your new enlarged size! The beauty of this is the enlargement is permanent.

If you have found any obscure WordPress options please comment below. For the first person to comment with a great WordPress tip I will stumble a page on your blog.