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The WordPress media library: uploading, organising and replacing images

The short answer: everything you upload to the site (images, PDFs, videos) goes into the Media Library, under Media in the dashboard. There you upload, search, write the alternative text…

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Menus in WordPress: building the main menu and choosing where it appears

The short answer: a menu is the list of links at the top (or bottom) of the site. In WordPress you build it once, with the pages you want to…

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Updating failed in the WordPress editor: the REST API and JSON errors

The short answer: you write a post, press Update, and the editor answers “Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response” (or “Publishing failed”). The editor talks to…

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Categories and tags in WordPress: how to use each without making a mess

The short answer: categories are the blog’s big sections (few, and each post fits in one); tags are loose keywords, more specific (many, and each post has a few). Using…

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Changing the language of WordPress: the site, the dashboard and each user

The short answer: WordPress has two languages chosen separately: the site’s (under Settings > General) and each user’s dashboard (in their profile). Changing the language does not translate your text;…

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The wrong date or time on your site or e-mails: WordPress, PHP and time zones

The short answer: “the time is wrong” can come from four places, and fixing one does not fix the others: WordPress (the time of posts and scheduled publications), PHP (hand-made…

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Migrating WordPress with a plugin: how it works and where it fails

A migration plugin bundles the site (files and database) into a package, which you carry to the destination and unpack there, swapping the old address for the new one on…

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LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress: the first settings

The server your site runs on uses LiteSpeed Enterprise, and the LiteSpeed Cache plugin is the piece of WordPress that talks to it. With page caching on, a visitor asking…

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WordPress permalinks and the 404 that follows

You changed the permalinks, moved the site or updated something, and now only the home page opens: everything else returns a 404 error. Almost always the content is fine. What…

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WordPress Heartbeat: what it is and why it keeps calling the server

The short answer: Heartbeat is a “pulse” that WordPress sends to the server every few seconds while the dashboard or the editor is open. It is used to save drafts,…