284 results for «WordPress» (page 6 of 29)
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Moving a Blogger blog to WordPress
It happens in three stages: get the content out of Blogger, put it into WordPress, and deal with the old addresses, which is the part most people forget and the…
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Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you
The short answer: WordPress.com is a service where the site lives on another company’s servers; the WordPress you install on your hosting is the same program, but the site is…
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Changing the WordPress login address
Every WordPress in the world has its door in the same place: /wp-admin and /wp-login.php. Moving it to an address only you know means automated scanners stop knocking on it.…
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Switching WordPress themes without losing the site
Changing theme does not delete your content. Pages, posts, images, comments and users all stay where they were. What changes is the presentation, and it is at the edges of…
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Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it
The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old address in thousands of places in the database: in…
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Updating WordPress itself
The WordPress core is the part that is identical on every site in the world, which is exactly why flaws in it are worth so much to people hunting for…
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Which password is which: client area, cPanel, e-mail, FTP, database and WordPress
The short answer: a site with e-mail and a database has six or seven different passwords, and each one only works in one place. “I changed the password and it…
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A test copy (staging) of your WordPress site: changing things safely
The short answer: a test copy is a second site, identical to yours, that only you see. You try the new theme, the big update, the plugin you do not…
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Collecting subscribers and sending a newsletter from a WordPress site
The short answer: the site collects the addresses (with a form), but it should not be the one sending a message to many people. For that you use a proper…
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Exporting and importing content between two WordPress sites
The short answer: WordPress has its own tool to carry the content (pages, posts, comments, menus, images) from one site to another, under Tools > Export and Tools > Import.…





