267 results for «WordPress» (page 6 of 27)
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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 (like a company site). You choose it under…
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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 with it. They appear in the…
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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 presence on Google, what you want is that anyone arriving…
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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 install on your hosting is the same program, but the site is…
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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 free service that ties a photo to an e-mail address. To…
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WordPress or a static website: which is simpler, safer and faster
If the site changes rarely and has only a few pages, a static site is the simplest, the safest and the fastest. If it changes often, or is edited by…
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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, with the pages you want to…
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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, more specific (many, and each post has a few). Using…
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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 makes sense if the site needs accounts (a members area, a shop,…
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Block theme or classic theme in WordPress: what is the difference and which to pick
Short answer: with a block theme you edit the whole site (header, footer, page templates) using the same blocks you write with. With a classic theme the structure lives in…





