The Gutenberg editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 made it much easier to add elements to your posts. Whether you want to embed a YouTube video, a form, a table, or one of many other types of content, there is probably a block that you can add to do so easily. But occasionally you may actually […]
How to Require Manual Approval of Comments in WordPress
Comments can add a lot of value to a post that you make in WordPress. Whether your site visitors want to thank you for your post, want additional information about it, or even want to post a complaint or problem that they had, it comments can be helpful to future visitors. Unfortunately comment sections can […]
How to Enable Related Posts in WordPress with Jetpack
When someone comes to visit your website, the goal is usually to get them to hang around for a bit. Whether they entered your site from your homepage, or found one of your posts through an organic search, typically you would like them to continue viewing your content. But this can be difficult if someone […]
How to Enable Jetpack Widgets in WordPress
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has so many features and settings that you could easily use the plugin for years without realizing that it could let you do something. This versatility allows it to replace some other plugins that perform a dedicated task, thereby letting you reduce the total number of plugins that you have […]
How to Change Which Menu to Use in Your WordPress Theme
Getting your theme set up in WordPress involves a number of different steps, but one of them is almost always creating a navigational menu. This menu can include things like links to your site’s most popular pages, links to your different post categories, or anything else on your site that you think is important for […]
How to Change the Order of Sidebar Widgets in WordPress
When you add a new theme in WordPress or are customizing your current one, an important element of that theme will be the content that you include in your sidebar. Depending on the type of the site this could be things like a calendar, related posts, ads, or images. But you might have added these […]