Category: WordPress

The original design of WordPress was for posts and pages with text and image-based content. It didn’t really envision that people would want to create complex HTML inside their content. Of course, we have the “Text” or “HTML” tab into which we can directly write HTML code, but it isn’t ideal. For one thing, the […]

Sometimes you just need to change a word or a string of characters throughout your WordPress installation. And that text isn’t always in the post content. Most of the information of WordPress resides in the database in hundreds of fields and a dozen tables. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to find and replace […]

In a previous article, I’d shown you how to connect to your MySQL WordPress database remotely through the HeidiSQL program. Now if you need to take a backup, it’s extremely easy. Just open your database in HeidiSQL, right-click the database you want and export as SQL. Problem solved! However, this is purely a GUI interface. […]

Updated: May 1, 2023 WordPress lives in its database. The files and folders on your server are for appearances only. CSS, Javascript, and PHP files can usually be replaced from other sources. But your content – that is what makes your site special and unique. And that content lives in the database. If you had […]

Shortcodes are a very powerful feature in WordPress that allows you to replace some text with something else when the page is displayed. Since the processing for the shortcode happens in the background at runtime, the result can be different. Perhaps you want to pull a value from a database. In this step by step […]

I decided to go out on a limb today and daringly install the Gutenberg editor for WordPress plugin that will soon be replacing the classic editor in WordPress 5.0. There is a lot of discussion amongst the WordPress community questioning the move, some stating that it’s a mistake for WordPress to include it in its […]

WordPress is racing towards their controversial 5.0 update which includes the Gutenberg page/post editor in its core. Feedback from the WordPress community doesn’t seem all that promising: Earlier today, I had Bhagwad share his thoughts on the blog, which he calls Gutenberg annoying as hell. Personally, I’m old-school, and I’ve had a hard enough time […]

All themes need to be customized in order to achieve the look and feel you want. Despite the thousands of free and paid themes for WordPress, you’ll never find one that fits you out of the box. One of the most common customizations is to change the background, the font color etc. Unfortunately, not all […]

Most WordPress themes display their name with a link back to their site. Here’s an example: It’s possible to remove these links. However, not all themes make it easy. In general, there are three types of themes with regard to footer links. Those like Genesis which explicitly have provisions to remove the links “Norma” themes […]

Google Analytics is such an important part of a webmaster’s arsenal, that I honestly don’t know a single site owner who doesn’t use it. For tracking and reports, there’s nothing better. And it’s free! All you need to do is add a snippet of code to your website and you’re done. The problem however, comes […]