265 results for «WordPress» (page 5 of 27)
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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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WordPress explained, and when it is the right choice
WordPress is a program you install on your hosting to build and run a website without writing code. It is not somebody else’s service that keeps your site for you:…
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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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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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Switching WordPress themes without losing the site
Changing theme does not delete your content. Pages, posts, images, comments and users all stay where they were. What changes is the presentation, and it is at the edges of…
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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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Moving a Blogger blog to WordPress
It happens in three stages: get the content out of Blogger, put it into WordPress, and deal with the old addresses, which is the part most people forget and the…
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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.…
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Changing the WordPress login address
Every WordPress in the world has its door in the same place: /wp-admin and /wp-login.php. Moving it to an address only you know means automated scanners stop knocking on it.…





