Even though WordPress has a very capable built in WYSIWYG editor, every WordPress blogger should know some basic HTML for those times when an editor in unavailable or when you simply have to do it by hand. WordPress is great and makes it very easy to create stylish and great looking posts and pages but it doesn’t have any kind of editor for your text widgets, those you have to style by hand. While you may not think that you’ll be using text widgets, I can almost guarantee that every WordPress blogger at some point or another will need to use some basic HTML by hand.

I’m only going to show you how to use basic HTML to style your text but for more detailed tutorials and to further your knowledge you can take a look at W3Schools.com at their excellent free tutorials.

Basic HTML

To style text colors and alignment you can use the values below

This is just a tiny example and how to and there is a whole lot more to HTML than this very basic tutorial and I urge you to head on over to W3Schools.com to take some of their full tutorials, you’ll be glad you did.