284 results for «WordPress» (page 4 of 29)
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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.…
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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 in the table and go straight to the article…
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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 and does, from the panel, a set of things you would…
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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…





