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When working with WordPress pages and posts you may want to create a link (also known as a “hyperlink”) to another website (an external link), or even another page or post on your site (an internal link). Internal and external links are part of the backbone of the web, making communication of related information possible Read More >

In this article I’m going to talk about WordPress revisions and why you might possibly want to limit or disable the revision history of your WordPress pages and posts. WordPress provides revision control on any pages or posts that you create which allow you to go back and see previous edits that you’ve written over Read More >

In this article I’ll quickly discuss why you should be logging out of your WordPress admin dashboard when not in use. There can be multiple requests that your web-browser sends to the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php script while you are logged into the WordPress admin dashboard, and leaving your computer unattended over the course of the day those requests Read More >

Customers that initially built their blog sites with Google Blogger (Blogspot) can have the blog information imported into their WordPress software by using the “Import” feature in the WordPress dashboard. WordPress has a built in “Import” feature that allows you to import different blogs like Blogspot, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and even WordPress. The import process is Read More >

If you are updating your WordPress site via the automatic update script, you may run across an anomaly where you receive a maintenance message on your site. The message reads “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” and occurs on every page on your site, including the admin login. While this message is supposed to be temporary, Read More >

The sidebar is a wonderful piece of real estate on your site to place relevant content that may not fit directly on a page or post. Most content in a sidebar is text, however you can certainly add some diversity by making some of those text links into buttons or image links. Adding an image Read More >

The sidebar of a website, although traditionally used for navigation links and ads, can be used for any data you would like to place there. The most common use in WordPress is to display other posts links, archives, and categories for further navigation into the site. You can, however, use the sidebar to put anything Read More >

Default and older WordPress themes use nested lists to present their sidebar information. A nested list is simply a list of unordered items inside one another. A simple example of a nested list is below: Flowers Lilies Roses Dogs Boxer Poodle You may have your own nested lists you wish to add to your sidebar Read More >

Because WordPress is a blogging software, WordPress themes come default with blogging features. Many people use WordPress as a Content Management System, so the blogging features in WordPress are undesirable for those who want just a basic website. There is always more than one way to do this; however, this article will explain how throug Read More >

WordPress by default has comments enabled for most themes. The comments can be disabled in the WordPress Dashboard Settings > Discussion page; however, this does not remove the comments from the page entirely. What happens when the comments are disabled is, the site will display “Comments are closed”. Comments can be removed completely be Commenting Read More >

It’s best to test major changes on a duplicate WordPress website before doing so on a live website. There are multiple ways to accomplish this including the Softaculous Staging option or the TotalUpkeep Backup plugin. Below we’ll outline how to manually create a copy of a WordPress site for testing. Warning: This tutorial is made Read More >