WordPress & CMS articles

WordPress & CMS 1,551 How to install WordPress in a few clicks You don't have to download WordPress, create a database and upload files by hand. The installer in cPanel does all...
WordPress & CMS 1,539 Common WordPress errors: white screen, critical error and how to find the cause The site stopped opening and shows a blank white screen, or the line «There has been a critical error on this...
WordPress & CMS 931 Cannot get into the WordPress dashboard: the six usual causes The site opens, but the admin dashboard does not. Either it asks for the password in an endless loop, or it says the...
WordPress & CMS 892 How to remove WordPress from a domain, without leaving anything behind You want WordPress off a domain, because the installation broke, because you are starting over, or because the site...
WordPress & CMS 1,254 Protecting the WordPress login: three steps in order of effect WordPress’s login address is the same on every site in the world: /wp-admin and /wp-login.php. That means any...
WordPress & CMS 1,126 Getting started with Sitejet Builder: from cPanel to your first website Sitejet Builder is the drag-and-drop editor included in the cPanel of MozOut hosting plans. You build the site in...
WordPress & CMS 733 Choosing and customising a template in Sitejet Builder The template is your starting point: it brings sections, colours and fonts that already work together. Everything in...
WordPress & CMS 824 Checking and adjusting your Sitejet site on phones before publishing A large share of visits come from phones. Sitejet Builder templates already adapt to the screen, but it is worth...
WordPress & CMS 1,078 Publishing a Sitejet site, publishing again, and keeping the site you already had Publishing is the moment the site leaves Sitejet Builder and starts opening on your domain. It is worth knowing,...
WordPress & CMS 728 A Sitejet site and another website on the same plan A plan can hold more than one site, up to the plan's limit. What it cannot do is hold two sites in the same folder....
WordPress & CMS 636 Maximum number of websites in Sitejet Builder: what it means and what to do When cPanel shows "You have reached the maximum number of websites for this account. Contact your hosting provider...
WordPress & CMS 1,115 Sitejet Builder or WordPress: which one suits your site Both are in your hosting plan's cPanel and neither requires code. The difference is in what each one can do and how...
WordPress & CMS 558 Page titles and descriptions for Google in Sitejet Builder Sitejet Builder takes care of the technical side: the published site is light, adapts to phones and includes a site...
WordPress & CMS 685 What a CMS is, and which one to choose for what you want to build A CMS is a content management system: a program that lives on your hosting and gives you a panel, inside your...
WordPress & CMS 583 Installing Joomla Joomla installs from the Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel, with no FTP and no touching the database. It takes...
WordPress & CMS 591 Recovering the Joomla administrator password You cannot get into /administrator any more. There are three ways back, and they are worth trying in this order: the...
WordPress & CMS 612 Installing Drupal Drupal installs from the Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel like any other platform. The part that deserves...
WordPress & CMS 545 Backing up the files of a Drupal site A Drupal site has two halves: the files and the database. This article is about the files. The other half is in...
WordPress & CMS 583 Installing Moodle for online training Moodle is the most widely used distance learning platform in the world: courses, cohorts, materials, quizzes, grades...
WordPress & CMS 604 Installing Flarum for a forum Flarum is a modern forum: a single page, fast, no reload on every click, and good on a phone without any effort. It...
WordPress & CMS 584 Installing Mautic Mautic is a marketing automation platform you host in your own account: contact lists, forms, landing pages,...
WordPress & CMS 748 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...
WordPress & CMS 740 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...
WordPress & CMS 777 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...
WordPress & CMS 732 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...
WordPress & CMS 835 The WordPress tool in cPanel: what it does for you cPanel carries a tool built for WordPress, in the Domains section. It knows about the installations on your account...
WordPress & CMS 796 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...
WordPress & CMS 702 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....
WordPress & CMS 674 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...
WordPress & CMS 713 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...
WordPress & CMS 786 Updating WordPress itself The WordPress core is the part that is identical on every site in the world, which is exactly why flaws in it are...
WordPress & CMS 752 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...
WordPress & CMS 885 Changing a WordPress username WordPress will not let you change a username on the profile screen. The field is greyed out and you cannot type in...
WordPress & CMS 920 Changing the WordPress administrator password There are four roads, and which one you take depends on one thing only: how far you can still get. Start with the...
WordPress & CMS 747 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,...
WordPress & CMS 700 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...
WordPress & CMS 691 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,...
WordPress & CMS 742 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,...
WordPress & CMS 723 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...
WordPress & CMS 737 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...
WordPress & CMS 687 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...
WordPress & CMS 694 Giving WordPress more memory The symptom always looks the same: a heavy operation stops halfway, or the page goes blank, and the error log...
WordPress & CMS 636 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...
WordPress & CMS 663 Putting a captcha on the WordPress login A captcha is a box the form puts in the way to tell a person from a program. On the WordPress login it does one very...
WordPress & CMS 800 Making WordPress send e-mail properly, with SMTP The site’s form messages never arrive. Password recovery never arrives. Shop notifications never arrive. And there...
WordPress & CMS 683 Using Elementor Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress: instead of writing code, you drag blocks onto the page and see the...
WordPress & CMS 410 WordPress permalinks and the 404 that follows You changed the permalinks, moved the site or updated something, and now only the home page opens: everything else...
WordPress & CMS 309 The “HTTP error” when uploading images to WordPress You drag a photo into the media library, the bar fills up, and at the end it says “HTTP error” and nothing else. The...
WordPress & CMS 275 WordPress login redirect loop: the causes, in order You type the username and password, WordPress does not complain, and it shows the sign-in screen again. Or the...
WordPress & CMS 284 Mixed content after moving to HTTPS: the padlock that will not turn on The certificate is installed, the site opens on https, and the browser still says “not secure” or shows a padlock...
WordPress & CMS 257 Stopping spam comments in WordPress If your blog has comments open, sooner or later it fills up with offers for watches, links to doubtful sites and...
WordPress & CMS 309 WordPress stuck in maintenance mode The site shows one dry sentence saying it is “briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”, and it will not go...
WordPress & CMS 296 Raising the WordPress upload limit You try to upload a theme, a backup or a video to WordPress and it answers that the file exceeds the maximum upload...
WordPress & CMS 286 Moving WordPress to a new domain without losing anything Changing name is more than swapping an address. If the site already has visitors, links pointing at it and a...
WordPress & CMS 174 WP-CLI over SSH: updating and fixing WordPress from the command line The short answer: WP-CLI is WordPress on the command line. Instead of opening the dashboard and clicking, you type...
WordPress & CMS 185 WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server The short answer: Heartbeat is a “pulse” that WordPress sends to the server every few seconds while the dashboard or...
WordPress & CMS 159 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...
WordPress & CMS 132 A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs The short answer: WordPress on its own has a single language. For a site in several there are three ways: a plugin...
WordPress & CMS 173 Slimming the WordPress database: revisions, spam and expired transients The short answer: over time the WordPress database fills with things nobody uses any more: revisions of every text,...
WordPress & CMS 230 Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you The short answer: WordPress.com is a service where the site lives on another company’s servers; the WordPress you...
WordPress & CMS 156 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,...
WordPress & CMS 136 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...
WordPress & CMS 116 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...
WordPress & CMS 108 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)...
WordPress & CMS 112 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,...
WordPress & CMS 177 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...
WordPress & CMS 135 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...
WordPress & CMS 134 Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old...
WordPress & CMS 252 Turning on WordPress debug mode safely: WP_DEBUG and the log The short answer: when the site shows a white page or a “critical error” without saying why, debug mode makes...
WordPress & CMS 109 Letting visitors register on your WordPress site: roles, bots and the risks The short answer: WordPress can let anyone create an account (Settings > General, “Anyone can register”). It only...
WordPress & CMS 158 XML-RPC in WordPress: what it is and whether to switch it off The short answer: xmlrpc.php is an old WordPress file that lets outside programs publish to your site. Most sites no...
WordPress & CMS 157 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...
WordPress & CMS 100 Exporting and importing content between two WordPress sites The short answer: WordPress has its own tool to carry the content (pages, posts, comments, menus, images) from one...
WordPress & CMS 233 The WordPress password reset e-mail does not arrive The short answer: you pressed “Lost your password?” and the e-mail does not appear. Almost always it is one of three...
WordPress & CMS 102 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...
WordPress & CMS 122 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...
WordPress & CMS 104 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...
WordPress & CMS 106 Updating failed in the WordPress editor: the REST API and JSON errors The short answer: you write a post, press Update, and the editor answers “Updating failed. The response is not a...
WordPress & CMS 124 Deleting a WordPress user without losing their posts The short answer: when you delete a user, WordPress asks what to do with what they wrote: delete everything or pass...
WordPress & CMS 155 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...
WordPress & CMS 168 Locking down the WordPress file editor and a few wp-config settings worth changing The short answer: WordPress has, in the dashboard, a file editor that lets you change the code of the theme and...
WordPress & CMS 165 Changing the language of WordPress: the site, the dashboard and each user The short answer: WordPress has two languages chosen separately: the site’s (under Settings > General) and each...
WordPress & CMS 113 A test copy (staging) of your WordPress site: changing things safely The short answer: a test copy is a second site, identical to yours, that only you see. You try the new theme, the...
WordPress & CMS 159 Redirecting old pages in WordPress: a plugin or .htaccess The short answer: when a page changes address or disappears, whoever saved it (and Google) lands on a 404. The...
WordPress & CMS 271 Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page in WordPress: the causes The short answer: you log in to the dashboard as an administrator and, on opening a page, WordPress says “Sorry, you...
WordPress & CMS 159 Hiding WordPress usernames: author pages, the REST API and login messages The short answer: WordPress shows, without meaning to, the usernames of those who write on the site: on author...
WordPress & CMS 95 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...
WordPress & CMS 132 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...
WordPress & CMS 202 The mobile menu does not open on a phone: the usual causes in WordPress and other sites The short answer: on the computer the menu works, but on the phone the three-line button does nothing. Almost always...