Getting Started

First Steps with WordPress (Classic Editor)

Note: This page refers to WordPress using the older or Classic Editor. If you are on a new version of WordPress or using the block […]

Using cPanel

This tutorial provides step-by-step examples of creating a database and database user using the cPanel MySQL Database Wizard tool. Login to your site Login to […]

Backing Up Your Database

It is strongly recommended that you backup your database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Restoring your database from backup is then possible if […]

Using FileZilla

FileZilla is an open-source FTP-client and FTP-server developed by Tim Kosse (Germany) et.al. The FTP-client is available for multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and […]

Writing Posts

Note: In December 2018, WordPress 5.0 launched with a new editor. This article was written for the long-available editing experience in prior WordPress versions, which […]

FTP Clients

There are two ways of getting files onto your site, and once there, changing them: By using the file manager provided in your host’s control […]

Twenty Sixteen

Twenty Sixteen is the default theme for WordPress in 2016. Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizontal masthead […]

Twenty Fifteen

Twenty Fifteen is the default theme for WordPress in 2015. It is super-clean, content-focused, and designed to bring a little more simplicity to our blogs. […]

Pages

In WordPress, you can put content on your site as either a “post” or a “page”. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write […]

Updating WordPress

WARNING: The upgrade process will affect all files and folders included in the main WordPress installation. This includes all the core files used to run […]

Taxonomies

A taxonomy within WordPress is a way of grouping posts together based on a select number of relationships. By default, a standard post will have […]

Roles and Capabilities

WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. […]