WordPress maintenance: 12-step monthly checklist to keep your site secure and running smoothly
Keep on top of your WordPress maintenance with this 12-step monthly checklist to improve your website’s security, performance and speed
WordPress 6.0: What’s new in this release?
WordPress 6.0 was released this week, containing more than 500 enhancements and 400 bug fixes with a focus on improving the writing and designing experience. Let’s take a look at what’s new and improved in the second major release of 2022. New with full-site editing As discussed in my round-up about WordPress 5.9, FSE (full-site…
WordPress 5.9: What’s new in this release?
Since the introduction of Gutenberg in WordPress 5.0, the team have been working on phase two of the roadmap focusing on Full Site Editing (FSE), Block Patterns, Block Directory and Block-based themes. And with WordPress 5.9 now on the way, we’re finally going to dig into those new features in the customisation phase. There’s a…
WordPress 5.8: What’s new in this release?
WordPress 5.8 was released this week, it’s the second major release of 2021 and comes with nearly 300 new features, bug fixes and improvements. It also combines a number of Gutenberg releases and takes us one step closer to Full Site Editing (FSE). In this article, I’ll dive into what to expect when you update…
How to remove the “uncategorised” category from your WordPress or WooCommerce site
When you first start using WordPress, you may notice that your posts default to the “uncategorised” category automatically. If you made your may to Posts > Categories, you may also have noticed that there’s no way to delete it from the list. This post will show you how to remove the “uncategorised” category and set…
WordPress not sending emails correctly? Here’s how to fix WordPress email issues
A common issue among WordPress users is they suddenly find that their websites are not sending emails correctly or at all. You may have noticed that you are not getting admin notifications, that your readers or customers are not getting email notifications, or you may have installed a contact form plugin that doesn’t seem to…
How to add a custom widget area beneath blog posts in WordPress (without a plugin)
This post will show you how to add a custom widget area below your post content so you can easily insert a call to action for your products or services, a subscription form for your newsletter, an affiliate program, social media icons, author bio or anything else you can think of to the footer of…
How to automatically update your copyright year in your WordPress footer
Are you still manually changing the year in your WordPress footer? If so, did you know there’s a quicker and easier way to dynamically show the date in your footer? The method described below will automatically show the current year in your copyright footer. For this, we need to edit your theme files. Before we…
A look at Google’s New Web Stories Plugin for WordPress
Wait, Stories for Google?! Yes, you heard that right! How we consume content has certainly changed over the years with social media growing in popularity. Now there’s a new way to stand out among the millions of blog posts published every day called Google Web Stories. What are Web Stories? Web Stories are a free,…
Automatic updates for WordPress plugins and themes – should you use it?
Plugins are an essential part of WordPress, giving us the ability to extend the functionality. It is best practice to be selective with the plugins you add, and ensure that all plugins and themes installed on your site are kept up to date. One of the main reasons a WordPress site gets hacked or infected…
Fix the HTTP error when uploading images on WordPress
As a WordPress user, every so often you may come up against one of the common errors. One of which might be when you’re uploading an image or media file to the WordPress media library. This may even randomly happen, even if you haven’t done anything differently. There are several reasons why this error can…
WordPress version 5.5 or 5.6 broke my site, what now?
WordPress 5.5 was released this week (August 2020), bringing us a number of new and improved features including UI improvements in Block Editor, a new Block Directory, Block Patterns and default lazy load images. Despite the recommendation for developers to get ready for this update, it still caught many developers by surprise. And because of…
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