WordPress Tutorials, Guides and Resources for Non-Techies, Newbies and Beginners
Scheduling a post to be published in the future is a neat little feature built into WordPress that’s easy to miss. Once you know about it, …
Building your own website or blog from the ground up is not as difficult as you might think. And the beauty of the method you’ll …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you’re running a website on the self-hosted version of WordPress, you probably know how easy it is to break it.
You might install a plugin …
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” …
If you have a working WordPress website that suddenly starts reporting one or more 404 errors (page does not exist) across its pages, I hope I …
A lot of WordPress websites use a sidebar on the left or right-hand side of their pages.
The content in the sidebar varies from site to site and …
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 …
One of the features that makes WordPress so attractive to businesses is the different user levels, from administrators to authors to subscribers.
This enables any number …
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 …
“What is a WordPress theme?”
It’s a question every WordPress newbie asks. By the end of this post, if I do my job properly, you’ll know …
WordPress is free open source software used to build websites, blogs and apps.
You probably know this already.
So let’s take a look at WordPress in a …
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 …
If you use the default WordPress username – admin – on a self-hosted site, you should seriously consider deleting it as you are potentially leaving …
WordPress uses categories and tags to organise related content. In the WordPress ecosystem, they’re called taxonomies. You only use categories and tags on posts. You can’t use categories …