When you are first setting up your WordPress site, there are a number of factors to consider. Aside from the hosting, domain, and DNS stuff, there are a lot of settings in WordPress concerning how you will be writing, how your theme will be set up, and how your visitors will see the various elements […]
How to Activate a WordPress Plugin
While a standard WordPress website provides you with the ability to display information on your domain, you may eventually decide that you want additional feature or functionality that you can’t get with the default options. Many of the more exciting and useful things that you can do on your site are accomplished with the help […]
How to Change a User Password in WordPress
When you create a new user for your WordPress site, whether it’s for you, a coworker, an author, or a subscriber, you will need to create a password for them. If that password becomes known by someone that shouldn’t know it, or if you think that the password might be too weak, then you may […]
How to Enable Downtime Monitoring in Jetpack for WordPress
While most hosting companies will guarantee a very high uptime percentage, even the best hosts will occasionally go down. Combined with this is the fact that WordPress site can also go down for its own reasons, and you encounter situations where your website could easily be offline for a couple of hours. If you aren’t […]
How to Stop Showing the Full Post in Archives With a Genesis WordPress Theme
The content archives on your WordPress site will list the various posts that you have put into those archives. Typically this is for things like your categories and your tags. But you may find that, when you open one of those archives, you are seeing the full post content for each post in that archive. […]
How to Hide a Section of the WordPress Dashboard
Your WordPress installation has a lot of menus and settings and, over time, you will eventually customize those settings until you find the combination that works best for your site. But while your initial concern may be over the elements of the site that are visible to your site visitors, you may also decide that […]