: Recommendation on how to get Authors to start using Headings instead of Bold I hope this question is in the correct SE website. I run a multi-author football website. The site has been up

@Berumen354

Instead of trying to blindly replace all bold words with header tags (which could easily lead to breaking an article), you need to educate your authors on the importance of the header tags, what they mean and their direct SEO benefits. Tell them that their article will likely receive more views if it is structure correctly, and doing so will make them a slightly more employable copy writer if that's their chosen career.

If you wanted to hand-hold you could adjust Wordpress to create some in-line dialogue when someone clicks the bold button, and explain that for titles the proper heading functionality should be used.

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@Sue5673885

why not create an 'admin' page for them where they enter their articles? That way, you can put a button for, say, 'bold' and show it as bold but internally you code it as a header. If tomorrow you decide to change how you lay out the HTML, you change what the admin does, and your authors don't need to even know anything changed, as they'll use the admin just the same as always.

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@Heady270

You could always make a script that takes the content of the page, searches for those situations where strong is used as a heading and replace the strong tags with an h2 or h3 tag.

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