267 results for «WordPress» (page 2 of 27)
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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 after an apparently simple change. Field What it means WordPress Address…
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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 specific job: automated password…
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Finding out which database this WordPress uses
The account lists five databases and none of the names says anything. You need to know which one belongs to the site, because you are about to clean it, copy…
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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 it. That is deliberate, because the username is…
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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 it, and either one leaves a working site behind…
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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 worth so much to people hunting for…
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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 did what, and how you take someone’s…
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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 reading before you try again, because trying again without changing…
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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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Giving WordPress more memory
The symptom always looks the same: a heavy operation stops halfway, or the page goes blank, and the error log carries the line Allowed memory size of ... bytes exhausted.…





