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How to create a child theme on WordPress (and why you should)

A child theme allows you to make customisations to different aspects of your site’s appearance while preserving your theme’s style and functionality. A parent theme includes all of the required WordPress template files and assets for the theme to work. A child theme works like any other theme, except it inherits the style and functions of the […]

How to automatically set your featured image on WordPress

If you’ve recently changed your theme, you may be wondering why some post thumbnails aren’t being displayed anymore. This could be that the featured images aren’t set, but instead of manually editing each post individually to add a featured image there are ways to automatically set it. You can use a plugin to do this […]

How to access your WordPress files via FTP using FileZilla (for beginners)

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need for bloggers to understand the technical side of their websites. This post will show you how to set up and login to an FTP client and access your WordPress files. Related: Hosting 101 – complete guide to web hosting What is FTP/SFTP? FTP is short […]

The pipdig situation explained and your tech questions answered…

No doubt if you’ve been on Twitter over the past 7 days, you’ll have seen some of the news about pipdig. There’s been a lot of questions and confusion around this situation and I’ve been getting quite a lot of questions since I tweeted about it Tuesday evening. I wasn’t planning on writing this post […]

How to choose and install a WordPress theme

Today I’m covering WordPress themes – where to choose one from, how to install them, when to update them and how to safely switch themes… What is a WordPress theme?In relation to WordPress, a theme is a small directory found in the wp-content/themes folder, stored on your web host, that contains several files. These files control the […]

Automatically backup your WordPress site for free using UpdraftPlus

There are several free and paid plugins that will automatically backup your WordPress site, today I’ll show you how to schedule backups using UpdraftPlus. It is one of the most popular free WordPress backup plugins available. It currently has over 2 million active installations and 3,000+ 5 star reviews. UpdraftPlus allows you to schedule backups […]