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title: Best Practices for writing content in WordPress
description: "1. **Practice Accessibility:** To ensure compliance with web standards for accessibility, include ALT and TITLE descriptions on links and images to help your users. 2. **Use Paragraphs:** Break your writing into paragraphs by using double spaces between them. WordPress will…"
url: "https://tlc.wvnet.edu/docs/web-web-application-support/web/best-practices-for-writing-content-in-wordpress/"
updated: "2023-11-01"
category: Web
tags:
  - Best Practices
  - WordPress
---

# Best Practices for writing content in WordPress

1. **Practice Accessibility:** To ensure compliance with web standards for accessibility, include ALT and TITLE descriptions on links and images to help your users.
2. **Use Paragraphs:** Break your writing into paragraphs by using double spaces between them. WordPress will automatically detect these and insert HTML paragraph tags into your writing.
3. **Use Headings:** If you're writing long posts, break up the sections by using headings. Headings are set using HTML tags like h1, h2, h3, etc.
4. **Use HTML:** While you don't have to use HTML when writing posts in WordPress, you can use it if you want more control over elements like boxes, headings, and other containers.
5. **Spell Check and Proofread:** Even though there are spell check plugins available, it's a good practice to write your posts in a text editor with spell check, proofread them thoroughly, and then copy and paste into WordPress.

For more detailed information and additional best practices, you can refer to the [WordPress.org documentation on writing posts](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/write-posts-classic-editor/).