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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 not rebuild it every time. In the WordPress…

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WordPress or a drag-and-drop website builder: what you gain and what you give up

Pick the builder if you want the site online quickly and with no upkeep; pick WordPress if you want room to grow and to own everything. The difference is not…

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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 message tells you nothing because all…

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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 pages, in the REST API and even in the login error…

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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 forgive typos, does not understand synonyms and rarely finds…

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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 (a gallery, a form, a table). When something goes wrong,…

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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, spam comments, items in the trash, expired temporary data (transients) and…

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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 that stores each page in each language, a…

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Which password is which: client area, cPanel, e-mail, FTP, database and WordPress

The short answer: a site with e-mail and a database has six or seven different passwords, and each one only works in one place. “I changed the password and it…

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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 it to another user. If you do not pick…