Where are WordPress Pages Stored and How to Find Them
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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.
(read more)How to Add a Background Image Cover in WordPress – in 1 Minute
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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.
(read more)How to Change Your Default Category From “Uncategorized” in WordPress
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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.
(read more)Add HTML to WordPress With the Custom HTML Block (and Claude?)
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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.
(read more)How Does WordPress Sound to You? Join Our Survey About WordPress Brand Tone and Voice
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Over the past few years, we have seen increased efforts to better position and market the WordPress brand. Along with these efforts, we now have a Brand Writing Style Guide that defines how the WordPress voice should sound and what tone it should convey. The brand book was first created in August 2018 and has undergone several updates since then. It serves as a manual for all marketing messages, campaigns, and communication from WordPress.
(read more)I Spent 20 Hours Testing 60+ Niche WordPress Themes, and There Are Some Elephants in the Repo
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Recently, I was working on a rewrite of one of our theme list posts and in the process I tested over 30 themes. By the end, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that the majority were junk. My gut feeling was that the "shiny cover, empty box" syndrome I encountered was more widespread than only the niche I worked on. So I decided to fire up a test instance of WordPress and went through 31 additional themes in a separate niche. These are the results of my research.
(read more)How to Link to Page Content From a WordPress Navigation Menu
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Do you want to create a WordPress link that takes readers directly to a specific section of a page? As in, it can be a section anywhere in the middle of the page – not only the start of it. There’s an easy way to do that in WordPress. In this post, I’ll show you how.
(read more)How to Create an Ecommerce Website With WordPress
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Use WooCommerce: In a nutshell, this is how to create an ecommerce website with WordPress. However, this is also a gross oversimplification. There’s lots to consider when it comes to a project like this. In fact, you should think about every action you take – even your preferred choice of ecommerce plugin.
(read more)How to Duplicate a Page in WordPress (Quickly)
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There are plenty of scenarios when it makes sense to duplicate a page. Maybe you want to quickly copy a page or post with all the settings intact, or you might be running A/B split tests. Duplicating a page is simply a more elegant solution than copying and pasting content by hand.
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503 Error in WordPress: What It Is and How to Fix It
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Trying to deal with the 503 error in WordPress? The 503 error, AKA 503 Service Unavailable error, displays when your WordPress site’s server is unavailable for some reason.
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