Are you using the default WordPress Search widget on your website or blog? If you are, and you’re publishing content that you don’t want people to find when they’re searching your site, you can use a plugin to exclude that content from the internal search engine. This only works on Posts and Pages. Categories and…
As is so often the case with WordPress, making a change to your website is really simple but doing so could have major consequences on your traffic or the way your site performs. In the case of switching a document type from Post to Page (or vice versa) you must first take into consideration the…
As a website ages, it will likely accumulate a few redundant themes that never get used. You can keep them if you like, but be aware that they take up space on your server and need updating when a new version becomes available. If you fail to update them, you increase the risk of your…
The default language on a self-hosted WordPress website (or blog) is United States English. If you’re from the UK, for example, and prefer using words like “bin” instead of “trash” or “hi” instead of “howdy”, or you’re in another part of the world where the predominant language isn’t English, you might like to change the default language…
Sometimes it makes sense to block search engines from indexing your website. For example, you might buy a brand new domain name and build your WordPress website on a live server to save the hassle of moving it once it’s finished (make sense for beginners), or you might want to redesign an existing site on…
On your WordPress blog, you must assign every post to at least one category. There’s nothing you can do about this – it’s the way WordPress works. For this reason, WordPress uses a default category called Uncategorized. It’s not a particularly nice word, but the description fits the purpose because you’ve published a post and…
When you first start using WordPress, you may get confused by the terminology and jargon. Even for something as simple as Posts and Pages. You obviously understand the meaning of the words, but within WordPress, each behaves differently. After you’ve read this post, you’ll have a clear understanding of the major differences between WordPress Posts…
There are two ways to install a WordPress plugin without the need for additional software; from within WordPress or by uploading a .zip file from your computer. Just in case you don’t know – WordPress plugins are small scripts/programs that add extra functionality to the core system. Typically, you install free plugins through the WordPress…