Content, Themes & Plugins articles

Content, Themes & Plugins 336 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 313 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....
Content, Themes & Plugins 305 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 315 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 341 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,...
Content, Themes & Plugins 332 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 318 Using Elementor Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress: instead of writing code, you drag blocks onto the page and see the...
Content, Themes & Plugins 229 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 253 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,...
Content, Themes & Plugins 240 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 238 Choosing your WordPress home page: a static page or your latest posts The short answer: WordPress can show on the home page your latest posts (like a blog) or a fixed page you wrote...
Content, Themes & Plugins 244 Page or post in WordPress: which to use for what The short answer: use a page for what does not change with time and is part of the site (About, Services, Contact)...
Content, Themes & Plugins 261 Categories and tags in WordPress: how to use each without making a mess The short answer: categories are the blog’s big sections (few, and each post fits in one); tags are loose keywords,...
Content, Themes & Plugins 263 The WordPress media library: uploading, organising and replacing images The short answer: everything you upload to the site (images, PDFs, videos) goes into the Media Library, under Media...
Content, Themes & Plugins 235 WordPress comments: switch them on or off, moderate them and keep them tidy The short answer: comments give a blog life, but on a company site they tend to cost more work (and spam) than they...
Content, Themes & Plugins 279 Importing a theme’s demo content without wrecking your site The short answer: many themes come with an “Import demo” button that copies the example’s pages, images and menus...
Content, Themes & Plugins 246 Featured image and excerpt in WordPress: what they do and where they show The short answer: the featured image is the main photo of a page or a post; the excerpt is the short text that goes...
Content, Themes & Plugins 266 Profile pictures in WordPress: how Gravatar works and how to change yours The short answer: the small photo beside your name (in comments, on authors) comes, by default, from Gravatar, a...
Content, Themes & Plugins 250 The WordPress RSS feed: what it is, where to find it and when to turn it off The short answer: the RSS feed is a list of your latest posts, written for programs to read, not people. WordPress...
Content, Themes & Plugins 278 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...
Content, Themes & Plugins 220 Reusable blocks and patterns in WordPress: save a layout once and use it again The short answer: if you repeat the same piece on several pages (a contact block, a notice, a list of benefits), do...
Content, Themes & Plugins 227 Search on a WordPress site: why the built-in one disappoints and how to improve it The short answer: WordPress search looks for the words you wrote in titles and texts, and little else: it does not...