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When you first set up WordPress, you fill in your username and password, or, depending on how you installed it, it might assign a generated login for you. In either case, it ends up on your profile under > users. But did you ever complete that profile?Have you even thought about it? There are actually [...]
Even the smallest things that happen in WordPress can suddenly become huge problems—if you don’t know how to fix them. Here they are, some tiny, some big. 1. Why is there a double return in my posts? When you are doing a post or page and hit return, it gives you a space between lines. [...]
I talk about it a lot, the importance of backing up your WordPress blog if you are self-hosted. Yes, I said backup. Often when I tell users this, they ask… Why? There are a number of things that could go wrong in the life of your WordPress blog: host-related troubles, updates, corrupted themes, you name [...]
If you are going to install WordPress, or have recently done so, there are a few things you might want to delete before moving ahead. Some are more important than others, but in any case, it’s always nice to start with a clean slate. 1. “Hello World” post. Some people choose to edit this post [...]
I recently had a client that insisted her WordPress install was to be made completely and utterly hack-proof. She wasn’t very pleased with me when I said that it wasn’t possible to do that. I have heard people argue that WordPress isn’t the best platform for security because it is open source which means that [...]
In some of my other posts here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, I have walked you through various settings in WordPress. In this one, we’ll look at the Settings > Media. Although there aren’t a ton of decisions to make, let me explain why you may want to revisit these settings.
WordPress gives us so many features and options once we are in the dashboard. And if we add some widgets and a theme: presto, there’s even more. But no matter what you are using WordPress for—if you have one site or ten— there are features you might want to understand more clearly. When in WordPress, [...]
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard one of these two things from clients: “Someone told me I should have the XXX plugin because it will help with [fill in the blank.]. Do you think I need that? Can you install it for me?” or “I would love it if my theme [...]
5 Things That Drive Me Crazy When I See Them on Your WordPress Blog
Day in and day out, I land on WordPress blogs and websites. Whether it’s to look for resources, read a great blog post, explore someone’s business, or just keep tabs on certain industries, I’ve seen it all. But there are a few things that drive me crazy when I see them. They are the simple, [...]