WordPress has a lot of features and functions built in that most people rarely use. Themes themselves come with a style sheet that pre-sets many of the functions that could be used. One of those functions is the heading tag. These come in the form of H1, H2, H3 and H4.

There are suggestions that if you use these tags for headings in your posts you can increase the headings value when it comes to SEO, for example, having a heading that includes your keyword or keyphrase. Use one of those heading tags and you are telling the search engine it is important.

However, I often find that headings are set for the site and do not always sit comfortably within a post. They are too big, too small or the wrong color. What many writers don’t know is that each heading tag can be modified on the fly so that it does suit your post. Take a look at the following examples:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Now let’s see what happens when we modify them:

Heading 1

Heading 1

Heading 1

To achieve this result, you need to start with heading tag – for example the h1 tag – these are inserted between <>. To modify this tag you need to use the correct formatting command. These are also inserted between <> tag holders:

font size=”-1″ or -2, +1 +2 etc

You can adjust the size to suit your post. The size of the text in my posts means the H1 tag is far too big – by using the size=”-1″ option it looks much neater and suits the size of the text around it.

font color=”red” or blue or black or white

In the last example shown, I used the font size=”-1″ color=”blue” combination all within the one tag placeholder <>.

A typical command would like the following – to make life easier I have used [ ] instead of the <> to make it easier to read. Remember to replace the square brackets when you try these commands.

[h1] [font size="-1" color="blue"]Your text here[/font] [/h1]

The last two pieces of the command are particularly important. They effectively close the command at that point which means the formatting wont flow through to the rest of your site.

There you go – it’s quick, it’s easier, and you can do it on the fly whilst creating your next super post.