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Two domains on the same WordPress site

People who ask this nearly always want one of four different things. Pick the right row before touching anything, because the roads really are different. What you want The road…

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When a WordPress install fails: the causes and what to do

An installer that stops halfway almost always leaves the same clue: the error says where it stopped. It is worth reading before you try again, because trying again without changing…

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Changing the WordPress site address, and what breaks when it goes wrong

WordPress stores the site address in two fields, and confusing them is behind half the sites that become unreachable after an apparently simple change. Field What it means WordPress Address…

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Turning on WordPress MultiSite, and when it is not worth it

MultiSite turns one WordPress installation into a network of sites. There is then one core, one themes folder, one plugins folder, one database, and a network administrator above everyone. It…

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Finding out which database this WordPress uses

The account lists five databases and none of the names says anything. You need to know which one belongs to the site, because you are about to clean it, copy…

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Deactivating or deleting a WordPress theme

WordPress has no button to deactivate a theme, and that is not an oversight: there is always exactly one active theme. Deactivating the one in use means activating another. What…

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Writing a blog post in WordPress

A post has a date, joins a list and can be filed under categories. It is the right shape for news, notices, customer stories and anything that accumulates over time.…

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Installing a WordPress theme

The theme decides how the site looks: fonts, colours, width, where the menu sits, how a list of posts is laid out. Your content is independent of it, which is…

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Something has gone wrong with WordPress: where to start

WordPress always breaks in the same half a dozen ways. This page exists to save you the searching: find your symptom in the table and go straight to the article…

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Giving WordPress more memory

The symptom always looks the same: a heavy operation stops halfway, or the page goes blank, and the error log carries the line Allowed memory size of ... bytes exhausted.…