Site Health Check is a new feature which was introduced in WordPress 5.2. This new feature can be found in the WordPress menu under Tools->Site Health. The Site Health Check will give you information on possible critical configuration problems and recommended improvements which might be a good idea to implement or change on your WordPress […]
Naming your media attachments correctly can be important for your site SEO, and there’s not much for search engines to go by to determine what an image depicts if they are named something like DSC10457.jgp for instance. If the image is of a cute cat, then it would be much better for SEO reasons to […]
The Featured Image is what WordPress calls the image you select to represent your post or page. Most WordPress themes will display the featured image at the top of each page or post and they usually add to a nicer layout as opposed to just using simple headers. The easiest way to bulk edit and […]
If you are having problems with a theme then one of the first things you should do is to update it to the latest version. If you don’t know which the latest version of the theme you are running is, then please check the changelog of the theme in question. It’s likely available for you […]
Duplicating or copying posts or pages is not part of default WordPress functionality, so it has to be added using custom code, or by simply adding a plugin to your site. There are several plugins in the WordPress plugin repository which will enable functionality like this, we will take a closer look at the most […]
When you upload media like images or documents to WordPress, it doesn’t just save the media, it also creates an attachment URL for it. A separate page for just displaying the media document so to say. These attachment pages are quite empty and might not provide much information to your users. They contain the media […]
WordPress 5.2 introduced a new type of protection for sites which are crashing due to bad or invalid code. In previous versions the same errors would likely have resulted in a white screen of death or a 500 internal server error. If your site crashes then the “The site is experiencing technical difficulties” message is […]
If you’re new to WordPress then it might be difficult to remember the login URL, check the examples below to find the login URL to your WordPress site. Once you have found it then it might be a good idea to bookmark it in your favourite browser. If WordPress is installed in the root directory […]
It’s possible to give someone access to the backend of your WordPress site by simply sending them a URL. These temporary login URLs are usually generated by a plugin and can be useful for instance when you are seeking assistance from a developer, and they need to access your site in order to debug the […]
Fatal PHP error protection WordPress 5.2 includes protection for fatal errors in PHP code, when a fatal error is detected by WordPress then the user will see a WordPress error message instead of a “white screen of death”. An email is also sent to the administrator of the site. Recovery mode Recovery mode means that […]