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WordPress shortcodes: what they are and why one breaks your page

The short answer: a shortcode is a word in square brackets, like [gallery], that WordPress swaps for a bigger piece (a gallery, a form, a table). When something goes wrong,…

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Menus in WordPress: building the main menu and choosing where it appears

The short answer: a menu is the list of links at the top (or bottom) of the site. In WordPress you build it once, with the pages you want to…

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Locking down the WordPress file editor and a few wp-config settings worth changing

The short answer: WordPress has, in the dashboard, a file editor that lets you change the code of the theme and plugins. One typo there takes the site down, and…

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XML-RPC in WordPress: what it is and whether to switch it off

The short answer: xmlrpc.php is an old WordPress file that lets outside programs publish to your site. Most sites no longer need it, and bots love it for guessing passwords.…

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Hiding WordPress usernames: author pages, the REST API and login messages

The short answer: WordPress shows, without meaning to, the usernames of those who write on the site: on author pages, in the REST API and even in the login error…

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Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it

The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old address in thousands of places in the database: in…

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Widgets and sidebars in WordPress: what they are, and what changed with block themes

The short answer: a widget is a block of content you put in a fixed area of the site, such as the sidebar or footer (search, recent posts, categories, a…

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Collecting subscribers and sending a newsletter from a WordPress site

The short answer: the site collects the addresses (with a form), but it should not be the one sending a message to many people. For that you use a proper…

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A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs

The short answer: WordPress on its own has a single language. For a site in several there are three ways: a plugin that stores each page in each language, a…

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Object cache with Redis for WordPress on a VPS: what it speeds up and how to set it up

The short answer: an object cache keeps in memory the answers WordPress asks the database for, so it does not ask again. It helps where the page cache cannot reach:…