195 results for «WordPress» (page 5 of 20)
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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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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 is no error at all: WordPress says it sent them. The reason is nearly…
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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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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.…
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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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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, because the roads really are different. What you want The road…
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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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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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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 first one on the list that applies…





