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Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you

The short answer: WordPress.com is a service where the site lives on another company’s servers; the WordPress you install on your hosting is the same program, but the site is…

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The mobile menu does not open on a phone: the usual causes in WordPress and other sites

The short answer: on the computer the menu works, but on the phone the three-line button does nothing. Almost always it is a JavaScript error (a plugin or a change…

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A plugin or a snippet of code: how to add a feature to WordPress

Short answer: if the feature has screens, options or is complicated (forms, SEO, shop, bookings), use a well-maintained plugin. If it is a small, exact change (hiding a field, changing…

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WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server

The short answer: Heartbeat is a “pulse” that WordPress sends to the server every few seconds while the dashboard or the editor is open. It is used to save drafts,…

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The WordPress media library: uploading, organising and replacing images

The short answer: everything you upload to the site (images, PDFs, videos) goes into the Media Library, under Media in the dashboard. There you upload, search, write the alternative text…

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WP-CLI over SSH: updating and fixing WordPress from the command line

The short answer: WP-CLI is WordPress on the command line. Instead of opening the dashboard and clicking, you type wp plugin update --all and it is done. On our hosting…

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Which password is which: client area, cPanel, e-mail, FTP, database and WordPress

The short answer: a site with e-mail and a database has six or seven different passwords, and each one only works in one place. “I changed the password and it…

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Changing the language of WordPress: the site, the dashboard and each user

The short answer: WordPress has two languages chosen separately: the site’s (under Settings > General) and each user’s dashboard (in their profile). Changing the language does not translate your text;…

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Slimming the WordPress database: revisions, spam and expired transients

The short answer: over time the WordPress database fills with things nobody uses any more: revisions of every text, spam comments, items in the trash, expired temporary data (transients) and…

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Redirecting old pages in WordPress: a plugin or .htaccess

The short answer: when a page changes address or disappears, whoever saved it (and Google) lands on a 404. The remedy is a 301 redirect, which says “it moved here”.…