{"id":18497,"date":"2011-05-17T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=18497"},"modified":"2023-02-26T08:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:57:02","slug":"full-screen-distraction-free-writing-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/full-screen-distraction-free-writing-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Distraction Free Writing in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest WordPress version has got<strong> full-screen distraction-free writing<\/strong>! \u00a0Finally, you can write without any distractions from WordPress menu bars, and browser toolbars and concentrate only on writing articles. I played with the new upcoming feature and it is truly amazing.<\/p>\n<h2>Cluttered WordPress Editor<\/h2>\n<p>Here is what my cluttered WordPress new post editor screen looks like &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor.png\" alt=\"normal wordpress editor\" width=\"1409\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor.png 1409w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/normal-wordpress-editor-768x497.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1409px) 100vw, 1409px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>WordPress Distraction Free Writing<\/h2>\n<p>The new Distraction Free Writing Mode toggle button appears in the post screen in the top right corner. Chances are you might not have even noticed it! I myself had never noticed it after years of blogging.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/distraction-free-writing-wordpress.png\" alt=\"distraction free writing wordpress\" width=\"376\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/distraction-free-writing-wordpress.png 376w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/distraction-free-writing-wordpress-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/distraction-free-writing-wordpress-150x86.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click the toggle button and the distraction-free mode goes live instantly with a few essential formatting buttons still in place, but the rest of all WordPress admin features, navbar, and sidebar are all gone!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress.png\" alt=\"focus writing wordpress\" width=\"1412\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress.png 1412w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/focus-writing-wordpress-768x479.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1412px) 100vw, 1412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as you start typing, whatever of the minimal WordPress menu is left &#8230; also magically disappears slowly (and comes back when you stop typing).<\/p>\n<p>The focused interface is very useful as it helps you focus on the article you are writing or editing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/block-facebook-twitter-email\/\">avoid distractions<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/increase-productivity-on-computers\/\">increasing productivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Restore WordPress Clutter<\/h2>\n<p>Restoring the WordPress sidebars is easy. Simply hover over that area, click the toggle button, or simply click the ESC key.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure a lot of journalists, writers, and bloggers will find this distraction-free writing feature very useful like these other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/better-writing-resources\/\">online writing resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/install-wordpress-alpha-beta-nightly-build-versions\/\">test WordPress nightly builds<\/a> to find new features and write in a focused mode right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest WordPress version has got full-screen distraction-free writing! \u00a0Finally, you can write without any distractions from WordPress menu bars,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,17],"class_list":["post-18497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-tutorials","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}