How to fix common problems on a WordPress website
Since we are continually making changes to our WordPress sites, there’s always a risk of something happening that can cause it to stop working. This can be caused by anything, like a cyber attack or simply a bad plugin installation. And though downtime for a while may seem normal in certain cases, like website maintenance, …
WordPress Site Is Down? Here Are 7 Checks To Carry Out Read More »
Using WordPress for your CMS (content management system) is a fantastic way to get your blogs out. If you have tons of content piled up and ready to schedule them all at once, then follow these easy steps to bulk schedule posts on WordPress. You will have to install a plugin, but trust me, this …
On WordPress, you can easily change the date of your published posts, edit the date based on your new timezone, and bulk schedule posts and pages in advance. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can schedule posts on WordPress to stay on top of your editorial calendar and never miss a post …
Have you ever forgotten your password to your WordPress and don’t know how to reset it? Today I’ll show you two easy ways to reset your WordPress password through your email or username. Changing your Password While Logged-in If you are already logged in to WordPress and want to change your password, simply click on …
Favicons are those little 16×16 icons which you see at the top of your browser. They also appear in other places such as bookmarks and RSS readers. You don’t need to have a favicon for your website, though I think it’s an important part of branding and promoting your site. Also, it only takes 2 minutes to …
Code snippets are a great way of sharing useful code with other website owners and programmers. All the reader has to do is copy and paste the code you publish into the correct area of their website. As you know, you cannot simply add HTML code to your articles or the code will be executed. …
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Last month I was talking to my friend Zac Johnson about theme switching plugins for WordPress. For years I used the plugin Theme Test Drive to allow people to change the WordPress theme being used. Unfortunately, Vladimir Prelovac hasn’t updated the plugin for 18 months and it doesn’t work very well with the latest versions of WordPress. Try Theme …
I’ve spoken about preventing comment spam on WP Mods on a number of occasions. It’s something that all popular WordPress blogs have to deal with at some point. One type of spam I haven’t really spoke about until now is registration spam. If you have checked the option to allow anyone to register for your …
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A client recently asked me to change the order of a list of categories displayed in a sidebar. I opened the proper file, located the call to get_terms that collected the terms, and finally visited the Codex to find the proper argument to alter. To my astonishment, there was no way to order the category terms in a user-specified …
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This is a beginner level tutorial for WordPress users and developers who may have forgotten their admin password to log into the WordPress admin dashboard which is necessary to update any WordPress blog or website. I will provide several possible solutions for different situations. There is even a solution if you don’t know the username, …
