Within WordPress there are a number of settings to help you get the date and time set to display just the way you’d like, whether that be using your timezone or another, if you’d like time in 12 or 24 hour format or even if you’d like the week to begin on a Sunday versus […]
Maintenance is as big a priority as creating new post content on WordPress sites, particularly when it comes to broken image links. Having a broken link pointing to an external site is bad because it’s a poor user experience. But having a broken link pointing to media content on your own site is bad because […]
If you’re running WordPress and are unsure of what theme you’ve got running at the moment, checking the theme can be done within the WordPress Admin panel. Here’s the step by step process for checking your WordPress theme: Login to Admin area Click Appearance Click Theme Look for the word Active Next to it will […]
Editing pages in WordPress can mean different things to different people, because there are so many different ways of making changes to WordPress pages. The key differences come down to whether you’re editing content or design and which tool you’ll use to do the job. Edit Pages With Existing Content in WordPress In cases where […]
How to Add a Custom Logo to WordPress using Customizer WordPress has built in a powerful customization suite called Customizer. To make the changes using Customizer, follow these steps: How to Add a Custom Logo to WordPress using Header Appearance Another quick and easy way of editing the logo in WordPress is through the Header […]
With 1,000 or so ecommerce plugins to choose from on WordPress.org alone, any discussion of adding an online store to WordPress will be limited in scope. We’ll look at the most popular option and go through the steps for adding an online store (an ecommerce plugin) to your WordPress site. The most obvious choice is […]
An author is a role in WordPress whereby someone can create and publish content, upload files, as well as delete content they’ve written. Rather than risking upsetting or firing an author, which could result in them deleting all the content they’ve produced, instead consider using the contributor role for content creators and writers. What’s the […]
How to Reset a WordPress Users Password using SQL? You can quickly set a WordPress users password to the new ‘somenewpassword’ text as seen below, assuming that the user login is ‘theirusername’. Change the username and password to whatever you’d like and execute the query. How to Get a List of Subscribers? The below example […]
How to Clean Up and Optimize WordPress Posts by Removing Specific Post Meta Data? If you’re uninstalled a plugin or have stopped using a custom field, it could be that you’d like to remove all instances of post metadata relating to a particular meta key. If so: How to Clean Up Orphaned User Meta in […]
What are the Possible Roles for wp_capabilities in the Database? There are only a handful of roles that can be found as meta_values in the wp_usermeta table, each corresponding to the meta_key of wp_capabilities. Possible roles include: administrator editor author contributor subscriber What are the WordPress Capabilities of Admins? activate_plugins add_users create Reusable Blocks create_users […]