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Installing
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The rest of the WordPress series
Once it is installed, these are the articles that take it from there, in the order most people need them.
Getting started
- WordPress explained, and when it is the right choice
- Creating a WordPress site from the control panel
- Signing in to the WordPress dashboard, and the right address
- When a WordPress install fails: the causes and what to do
- The WordPress tool in cPanel: what it does for you
How the site looks
- Installing a WordPress theme
- Switching WordPress themes without losing the site
- Customising your theme without writing code
- Deactivating or deleting a WordPress theme
- Menus in WordPress: building the main menu and choosing where it appears
- Widgets and sidebars in WordPress: what they are, and what changed with block themes
- Choosing your WordPress home page: a static page or your latest posts
- Changing the language of WordPress: the site, the dashboard and each user
- Importing a theme’s demo content without wrecking your site
What the site does
- Installing WordPress plugins: where, which ones, and how many
- Disabling plugins, including when you cannot get in
Putting content in
- Creating and editing pages in WordPress
- Writing a blog post in WordPress
- Moving a Blogger blog to WordPress
- Page or post in WordPress: which to use for what
- Categories and tags in WordPress: how to use each without making a mess
- The WordPress media library: uploading, organising and replacing images
- WordPress comments: switch them on or off, moderate them and keep them tidy
- Featured image and excerpt in WordPress: what they do and where they show
- Exporting and importing content between two WordPress sites
- Redirecting old pages in WordPress: a plugin or .htaccess
- The WordPress RSS feed: what it is, where to find it and when to turn it off
- Collecting subscribers and sending a newsletter from a WordPress site
People who can get in
- Adding a WordPress user, and which role to give them
- Changing a WordPress username
- Changing the WordPress administrator password
- Letting visitors register on your WordPress site: roles, bots and the risks
- Deleting a WordPress user without losing their posts
- Profile pictures in WordPress: how Gravatar works and how to change yours
- The WordPress password reset e-mail does not arrive
- Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page in WordPress: the causes
- Hiding WordPress usernames: author pages, the REST API and login messages
- Reusable blocks and patterns in WordPress: save a layout once and use it again
- Search on a WordPress site: why the built-in one disappoints and how to improve it
- The mobile menu does not open on a phone: the usual causes in WordPress and other sites
Keeping it up to date
From the command line, and a slow dashboard
- WP-CLI over SSH: updating and fixing WordPress from the command line
- WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server
- Turning on WordPress debug mode safely: WP_DEBUG and the log
Less common cases
- Two domains on the same WordPress site
- Turning on WordPress MultiSite, and when it is not worth it
- Changing the WordPress site address, and what breaks when it goes wrong
- Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it
- XML-RPC in WordPress: what it is and whether to switch it off
- Locking down the WordPress file editor and a few wp-config settings worth changing
- A test copy (staging) of your WordPress site: changing things safely
- Updating failed in the WordPress editor: the REST API and JSON errors
- WordPress shortcodes: what they are and why one breaks your page
- A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs
- Slimming the WordPress database: revisions, spam and expired transients
- Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you
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