One of my own personal pet peeves is seeing editor markup in blog posts. (Editor markup is stuff like using two hyphens instead of an em dash.) I know, it shouldn’t matter and I’m persnickety, but I think that using actual special characters, adds a really nice level of polish that a lot of people miss. Also, WordPress makes proper punctuation quite easy! In this little post in my Better Blogging series, I’ll tell you how to make use of the special characters palette.
I’ll make this shorter and sweeter than I usually do … The special characters palette can be found six in from the right, on the second line of the kitchen sink in your WYSIWYG editor in WordPress. (Check out my post from two weeks ago, if you need a refresher on where to find the second row.) Special characters include em dashes (used to separate parts of sentences), en dashes (used between numbers, among other things), letters that require accents and even icons for clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds.
Don’t be afraid to check out all of the options that the WordPress WYSIWYG editor has. Using the tools that are available to you, will give you blog posts with style.
Kate Moore Hermes 