WordPress Tips & Tutorials

When you’re just getting started with WordPress, it’s normal to do everything through the WordPress admin dashboard. But as you start to become more familiar

Ok, so you want to change your WordPress username, right? You probably went to the edit profile page in WordPress assuming that it would be

Looking for a solution to install WordPress locally? While there are some pros and cons to working on a local WordPress install, I love this

Trying to figure out how to reinstall WordPress on your site? There are several different methods that you can use to reinstall WordPress depending on

WordPress’ popularity brings a number of benefits that you wouldn’t get with a less popular content management system. For example, I’ve watched as it went

So you managed to install WordPress and get your site running – does that mean you’re ready to go public right away? Ehh, not quite…

If you want more control over how your WordPress site looks, learning how to use the WordPress Customizer is one of the best investments that

User roles are what allow you to control which actions other users on your site can perform and what content those users have access to.

Struggling with how to install a WordPress theme? Themes are the building block of every single WordPress site, so if you can’t install your WordPress

Since WordPress 3.1, the WordPress Admin Bar, now known as the WordPress Toolbar, has been a part of the WordPress core. If you’re not sure

Favicons are those little images that appear next to your site’s title in a browser tab, as well as other areas like bookmarks, app icons

If you’re like most WordPress webmasters, you only experience your WordPress site as an Administrator. If you’re not familiar with what that means, it basically

Thinking of changing WordPress themes? It’s something just about every WordPress user has done once in their WordPress career. In a way, it’s theme developers’

Updates are good. They’re your friend. They keep your site safe…. But just because updates are an important part of running a WordPress site, that

A WordPress staging site is like a sandbox. It’s where you can try out all kinds of tweaks and changes without risking breaking your production

Need to move your WordPress site to a new domain? While no one sets out intending to change domain names down the road, it’s certainly

Are you freaking out about that giant “Error Establishing a Database Connection” message that shows up when you try to access your WordPress site? A

Want to add a countdown timer to your WordPress site? While there are plenty of coming soon plugins that help you add countdown timers for website launches, there are surprisingly few plugins that let you add countdown timers to existing WordPress pages…at least for free.

If you’ve ever shopped around for WordPress hosting, you’ve probably seen this weird little acronym that shows up on many hosts’ features lists: WP-CLI. Are you familiar? Most managed WordPress hosts offer it nowadays. Impressively, it manages to pack two different acronyms into a name that’s the perfect storm for confusing beginners. So what does this acronym mean? And why should you care about it?

You probably created your WordPress site because you want people to see it. But that doesn’t mean you want people to see every single thing! That is, there are plenty of valid reasons to restrict access to all or parts of your WordPress site. Beefing up security, creating a private staging site, restricting sensitive content…you need to do it sometimes. But how?

You know what sucks? When your emails show up in your intended recipients’ spam folders. You’re sending content that needs to be seen, but the Internet gatekeepers are sending it straight to junk. It’s annoying. But as anyone who has tried to receive Contact Form 7 emails at their Gmail account can attest to, it happens far too often with emails sent by your WordPress site.

If you’ve used WordPress for a while, I’m sure someone has told you that you “shouldn’t use too many plugins”. It’s obvious – using too many plugins will slow your WordPress site down, right? But is that actually true? I mean, people tell me I shouldn’t swim after eating, but I’ve done that my whole life and I’m still alive and kicking! So is the common knowledge that “too many plugins is bad” good for WordPress?

Are you a functions.php hoarder? If your first inclination when adding custom code snippets to your WordPress site is to stick them in functions.php, you may be afflicted with this terrible disease and not even know it.

Is there anything more addictive than the Facebook News Feed. I mean, I’m sitting here trying to write this post, but that addictive little bugger just keeps scrolling…and scrolling…and scrolling. Now, it’s 30 minutes later and I still haven’t started.

If you have ever wanted to start all over again with your WordPress website, but are not sure how to get back to your default