284 results for «WordPress» (page 8 of 29)
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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…
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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…





