Keeping your WordPress site up to date is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve its overall security and prevent any compatibility issues in the future. In this quick post, I'll show you how to update your WordPress site from start to finish. The operation itself is quite easy. However, a couple of things are worth doing before and after to ensure everything works as expected.
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Here's how to toggle auto-updates on/off for all your plugins and themes at once - via global rules. Or, you can also pick individual plugins to auto-update.
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When you view a category page on your WordPress website, its URL usually has a /category/ segment in it. For example, a URL for the “News” category will look something like this: https://example.com/category/news/
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You need a place to host your WordPress site. Cloud hosting gives you flexibility that traditional hosting can't match - your site can handle traffic spikes, recover from server failures, and scale up without migrating to a new plan.
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It's a very reasonable question: where are WordPress pages stored? There are a lot of ways to answer it though. Without getting too pedantic, we really need to understand how this question is layered to give a good explanation. In this quick guide we'll cover a few different versions of the answer that you might be looking for.
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While overall opinions on the Gutenberg editor vary, even the naysayers can't deny that there are so many elements you can add now with just the core WordPress blocks that you couldn't before. One of those elements is a background cover image. Not only is there a dedicated "cover block" solely made for this purpose, but it only takes a minute to add it to your posts. In this guide I'll show you how to do it and also how to customize it.
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So you launched a new WordPress site, wrote your first post, and published it. Then shortly afterwards you realized that it was automatically tagged as "uncategorized." We've all been there before - myself included. There's a way to change this though and in this quick tutorial I am going to show you how to do it.
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The Gutenberg block editor has close to 100 default blocks available for use. However, there are still situations where you might want to add a feature to your post that's simply not available via the default blocks. That's where custom HTML comes to the rescue! In this quick guide, I'm going to show you how you can use the HTML block along with Claude (a freemium AI tool) to customize your own posts.
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