Five reliable ways to back up a WordPress site: host-provided backups, a backup plugin like UpdraftPlus, a manual backup through cPanel, FTP/SFTP, or WP-CLI. This guide covers what a backup includes, how often to run one, all five methods step by step, the 3-2-1 storage rule, and how to restore.
A WordPress staging site is a private copy of your live site for testing plugin updates, theme changes, and risky edits before they hit production. This guide walks through 4 ways to set one up (host-provided, plugin, local, manual subdomain) with trade-offs and the gotchas that bite first-timers.
WordPress shows a blank white page with no error message? That’s the White Screen of Death. Here are 6 fixes in order of likelihood, including the WordPress 5.2+ Recovery Mode that handles most of them automatically.
A panic-mode WordPress site shows just “Error establishing a database connection” and nothing else. Here are the 7 fixes that resolve it, in order of likelihood.
Enable WordPress debug mode the production-safe way. Covers all five debug constants, Query Monitor, the WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE pattern, Recover Mode in WordPress 5.2+, WP-CLI debug commands, how to read the debug log, and how to log your own messages.
Turn off WordPress comments completely. Six methods covering the Settings UI, single-post toggles, bulk edit, WP-CLI for hundreds of posts, a functions.php snippet, and the Disable Comments plugin, plus how to remove the leftover comments menu and admin remnants.
Autoblogging is the process of automatically creating WordPress posts from external inputs like RSS feeds, AI topic generation, keyword lists, or structured sources like
If you manage more than one WordPress site, clicking around the dashboard for every update gets old fast. That is where WP-CLI commands come
Your PHP version affects your site’s speed, security, and plugin compatibility. Outdated PHP versions no longer receive security patches, which makes your site vulnerable.
Removing the “Proudly powered by WordPress” line from your site’s footer takes about 30 seconds on a modern block theme and a few more
Migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org takes about an hour and four core steps: export your WordPress.com content as an XML file, set up self-hosted
Bots are constantly trying to log in to your WordPress site. This can cause lots of server load and, more importantly, could lead to
Planning on leaving Squarespace for WordPress? Here’s how to migrate all of your Squarespace content to a self-hosted WordPress site. Squarespace can be great
Whether it’s for migrations or backup there are plenty of reasons to export WordPress menus. Additionally if you use a staging environment and want
Have you been enjoying the icons of Elementor but notice some of your favorite icons missing. By default, Elementor uses the Font Awesome icons
If you have put your WordPress site in the Facebook debugger you may have seen the following error: The error “The following required properties
The fastest way to customize your WordPress login page is with a plugin like Login Customizer by Colorlib (drag-and-drop, no code). If you’d rather
The fastest way to add custom CSS to WordPress depends on which kind of theme you’re running. On a block theme (Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty
Plugins are a major part of using WordPress and can easily add new functionality to your WordPress blog. From security to additional features there
There are many reasons that you may want to clone a WordPress website. These can include testing new plugins, trying new themes, or moving
WordPress won’t let you change usernames in the admin panel. Here are 3 methods that work, from beginner-friendly to advanced.
The fastest way to check your WordPress version is to log into your site’s admin dashboard. The version number appears in the “At a
Your WordPress site can quickly get cluttered with unused or even outdated themes. When you’re searching for the right WordPress theme, you typically install
The WordPress menu system can be quite powerful but sometimes you want to include external links with a nofollow attribute attached. Adding an external
