267 results for «WordPress» (page 8 of 27)
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WordPress comments: switch them on or off, moderate them and keep them tidy
The short answer: comments give a blog life, but on a company site they tend to cost more work (and spam) than they are worth. The rules are under Settings…
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Moving WordPress to a new domain without losing anything
Changing name is more than swapping an address. If the site already has visitors, links pointing at it and a presence on Google, what you want is that anyone arriving…
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Choosing your WordPress home page: a static page or your latest posts
The short answer: WordPress can show on the home page your latest posts (like a blog) or a fixed page you wrote (like a company site). You choose it under…
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Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page in WordPress: the causes
The short answer: you log in to the dashboard as an administrator and, on opening a page, WordPress says “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page”. It is…
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Search on a WordPress site: why the built-in one disappoints and how to improve it
The short answer: WordPress search looks for the words you wrote in titles and texts, and little else: it does not forgive typos, does not understand synonyms and rarely finds…
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WordPress block editor or Elementor: which one to build your pages with
Short answer: for most sites, the block editor that comes with WordPress is enough, is light and ties you to nothing. Elementor pays off when you need fine control over…
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Stopping spam comments in WordPress
If your blog has comments open, sooner or later it fills up with offers for watches, links to doubtful sites and sentences that make no sense. Whoever wrote them is…
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Deleting a WordPress user without losing their posts
The short answer: when you delete a user, WordPress asks what to do with what they wrote: delete everything or pass it to another user. If you do not pick…
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Raising the WordPress upload limit
You try to upload a theme, a backup or a video to WordPress and it answers that the file exceeds the maximum upload size. The limit is not WordPress’s: it…
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Letting visitors register on your WordPress site: roles, bots and the risks
The short answer: WordPress can let anyone create an account (Settings > General, “Anyone can register”). It only makes sense if the site needs accounts (a members area, a shop,…





