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You can use the built-in menu editor in your WordPress dashboard to
configure the navigational menus on your WordPress website.
Navigational menus are the list of pages/links that usually appear at
the top of the website that help direct you to the pag...
One of the primary features of a WordPress website is the ability to
create your own blog! You can learn how to create new pages in our
handy Knowledgebase article here [1]. So if you don't have any pages
set up, go there first.
If you just created yo...
Typically websites are made of up several (sometimes many) different
pages. When you go to a website, you typically see a menu of the
different pages of that site either on the top or on one of the sides.
These days, top-side and right hand-side naviga...
You can add another use in your WordPress dashboard so that more than
one person can log into your website. This allows you to set certain
permissions for that user, as well.
To add another user in WordPress:
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Log into your WordPress dashboar...
WordPress is an open source project, which means it is developed by a
community of developers worldwide and is available to use at no cost.
Everything, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by
and for the community.
The WordPress co...
So... you've signed up for hosting with HostNine and you wanna get
going with your new (or existing) WordPress website--but you just
don't know where to start. Or maybe you haven't started the process at
all but are gearing up for it. Stop frettin'! We...
WordPress allows the use of custom themes for a blog so that you can
make your website look fresh and original. There are a couple of ways
you can get custom themes to use on your WordPress site:
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Download a theme from the internet onto your loc...
If you want to install a fresh instance of WordPress on your cPanel
account you can do so very easily with Softaculous. Softaculous is an
auto-installer for cPanel that can auto-install over 266 useful
scripts.
_NOTE: if Softaculous isn't currently ...
There are pretty much two ways to install a WordPress plugin: by
uploading the file through the auto plugin installer built right into
WordPress via the Dashboard OR by manually installing it yourself in
the plugins folder inside of your WordPress inst...
So, you've signed up for a WordPress blog or website, but you don't
know how to log in!? Don't worry, it's easy as pie!
_NOTE: Your domain name should be pointed to your web hosting [1]
already._
To log into your WordPress dashboard:
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Navi...
WHAT ARE WIDGETS?
WordPress Widgets add content and features to your sidebars on your
WordPress website. Some default widgets come with WordPress, like the
ones for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc. Plugins
will often add their own...
If you have a WordPress website or blog, and you post with any
regularity, you might get some people commenting on your posts! You
can set your discussion notifications [1], whether you receive an
email when someone comments on a post, and more from yo...
_NOTE: this guide can help you move your WP out of any kind of
subdirectory, not just the Softaculous default "wp"._
By default, Softaculous will install your WordPress into a
subdirectory called 'wp'. In order to move it up one level or to any
othe...
For this guide we're going to demystify WordPress a little bit and
show you how easy it is to move a WordPress installation from your
current host to HostNine. You'll gain an understanding of the basic
components of WordPress and see how moving the sit...
In WordPress, there is more than one way to set your password. In
normal circumstances, you can do it through the WordPress interface.
If you forget your password, WordPress has a built in recovery
mechanism that uses email.
But on some hosts, espe...
You can limit access to your WordPress website to restrict visitor's
access or to lock down what pages and content they can see on your
site.
We don't usually blanketly recommend plugins, but the Restricted Site
Access plugin [1] can be very helpful i...
WordPress (WP) is the internet's most popular Content Management
System (CMS), but that also means it's one of the internet's biggest
targets for attackers! We'll help you run a tight ship, though, to
help keep your site safe. Check out our helpful tip...
So you have a WordPress blog, but people aren't commenting on it.
What's going on? It MAY be because you have the wrong comment or
notification settings in WordPress. But that's easy to change...
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Log into WordPress [1]
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From the left-han...
Sometimes, when you're in WordPress creating a new blog post you go
to upload an image into that post and WHAM! it won't upload and a
error message comes up:
Unable to create directory /path/to/uploads/2012/12
To correct this issue:
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Log ...
You can upload content to WordPress in several different ways,
including for plugins and themes. Primarily, you would use FTP [1],
the File Manager [2] or as this article explains, via the WordPress
dashboard.
The Wordpress Dashboard allows for files ...
WHAT ARE PERMALINKS?
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as
well as categories and other lists of blog postings. A permalink is
what another blogger will use to link to your content, or how you
might send a link to your po...
WordPress is a robust content management program that is used to
create websites. As with any program, there are updates to maintain
and improve the functionality. On December 6, 2018, WordPress released
version 5.0 and is calling it "Bebo." This article ...
If your WordPress blog is stalling or not responding, this is most
likely the result of a corrupted plugin or theme. When loading the
blog in your browser, it will continuously load until it times out; or
it will load with a blank page. Not cool!
DAT...
Is your blog missing it's CSS? Or are your website links going to
your OLD site, not your NEW one? This is probably due to WordPress
storing your domain name as a piece of data in its database. To fix
the problem:
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Log into your WordPress Dashbo...
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