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Installing WordPress plugins: where, which ones, and how many

A plugin is somebody else’s code running inside your site with the same rights WordPress itself has. That explains both what makes them powerful and why they deserve care. Where…

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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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Signing in to the WordPress dashboard, and the right address

The WordPress dashboard opens on your own domain, by adding /wp-admin to the address. There is no page of ours where you sign in to WordPress: WordPress is yours and…

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Creating and editing pages in WordPress

A page is content that stays put: about us, services, contact, privacy policy. A post is content with a date on it, which joins a list and gets older. Choosing…

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Adding a WordPress user, and which role to give them

Everyone who works on the site should have an account of their own. This is not paperwork: it is how you know who did what, and how you take someone’s…

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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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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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Creating a WordPress site from the control panel

You do not have to download WordPress, create a database or upload anything. cPanel carries two tools that do all of it, and either one leaves a working site behind…

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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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Cache rules for a WordPress site, without hiding the dashboard

Switching Cloudflare on and touching nothing else caches your images, stylesheets and scripts. The pages are still built from scratch on every visit. Getting them served from a copy means…