Making WordPress Lists

Making WordPress lists is a task that happens fairly regularly in web design.

The WYSWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor in WordPress has a way to build lists using buttons that will generate the code.

However, it’s not very easy for beginners to figure out how to use it.

That’s why in this article today I’m going to cover the steps required to making a WordPress list.

First thing we want to do is gather the content that we need for our list.

This could be written out or copied and pasted, but we will want to put every item in the list on its own line.

Once all the items are on their own line, highlight the whole block of text for the list and hit the UL button.

UL stands for Unordered List and is the master control code for a list that has no specific order and uses bullets to designate each list item.

We now need to wrap each list item in the LI code. LI stands for List Item.

We want to go through and highlight each list item in blue, then go up and click the LI button.

Finish up wrapping the list of items with LI and now we are done.

Make sure to hit the blue Update button to save the changes to the published page.

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Here is the example unordered list used in this article:
PR Expert selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

Innovation
Innovative ideas
Innovative route to market
Innovative product
Growth
Exceptional growth
Exceptional growth strategy
Management
Societal impact

Note that this is a basic list and does not have sub items which are more complicated to add. I may cover those in a future article.

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Written by: Jophiel Silvestrone

Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.

Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.