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WordPress block editor or Elementor: which one to build your pages with

Short answer: for most sites, the block editor that comes with WordPress is enough, is light and ties you to nothing. Elementor pays off when you need fine control over…

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WordPress stuck in maintenance mode

The site shows one dry sentence saying it is “briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”, and it will not go away. This happens when an update is interrupted halfway: WordPress put…

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Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it

The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old address in thousands of places in the database: in…

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The WordPress RSS feed: what it is, where to find it and when to turn it off

The short answer: the RSS feed is a list of your latest posts, written for programs to read, not people. WordPress creates it by itself, at your-domain.com/feed/. It serves news…

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The wrong date or time on your site or e-mails: WordPress, PHP and time zones

The short answer: “the time is wrong” can come from four places, and fixing one does not fix the others: WordPress (the time of posts and scheduled publications), PHP (hand-made…

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The WordPress password reset e-mail does not arrive

The short answer: you pressed “Lost your password?” and the e-mail does not appear. Almost always it is one of three cases: it is in spam, the user’s address is…

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WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server

The short answer: Heartbeat is a “pulse” that WordPress sends to the server every few seconds while the dashboard or the editor is open. It is used to save drafts,…

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Updating failed in the WordPress editor: the REST API and JSON errors

The short answer: you write a post, press Update, and the editor answers “Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response” (or “Publishing failed”). The editor talks to…

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Locking down the WordPress file editor and a few wp-config settings worth changing

The short answer: WordPress has, in the dashboard, a file editor that lets you change the code of the theme and plugins. One typo there takes the site down, and…

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Page or post in WordPress: which to use for what

The short answer: use a page for what does not change with time and is part of the site (About, Services, Contact) and a post for what has a date…