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How to add a gallery lightbox in WordPress
WordPress has had a built-in lightbox since version 6.4. Turn it on in the Gallery block’s link settings and simple galleries don’t need a plugin. When a lightbox won’t open, opens twice or breaks on phones, the cause is usually two scripts fighting over the same click, or an optimisation setting that loads the lightbox too early.
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Read article ›How to start a blog on WordPress without overbuilding it
Setting up a WordPress blog takes a few documented settings: publish a post, choose where posts appear, set permalinks once and make sure nothing blocks indexing. Most new blogs go wrong in other ways. Owners add plugins and polish the design before they have published anything, or they assume that a post that looks right is already in Google.
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Read article ›How to modify the header in WordPress
“Modify the header” in WordPress can mean four jobs: the visible header, the code in the page head, the HTTP response headers, or the “headers already sent” error. Each one has its own place to make the change. Most failed header edits are correct edits made in the wrong place, so start by working out which system controls your header.
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Read article ›How to redirect a page in WordPress without losing traffic
WordPress has no feature called a redirect page. What most people need is a rule that sends an old URL to a new one with the right status code, set in the right place on the site. Most redirect problems come from two of those places disagreeing, and adding another rule rarely fixes them.
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Read article ›How to install a WordPress plugin safely
You can install a WordPress plugin in under a minute from Plugins, then Add New Plugin, then Install Now and Activate. When it goes wrong, the cause is usually the setup around the plugin: the wrong ZIP, file ownership, an upload limit, a leftover folder, or an account that is not allowed to install. Check the plugin before you install it, and check the site after you activate it.
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Read article ›How to change the favicon in WordPress
In WordPress the favicon is called the Site Icon. On WordPress 6.5 and later you set it under Settings → General, and you don’t need a plugin or any code. Setting it is the easy part. Most of the time goes into getting browsers, caches and Google to show the new icon, and that goes faster when you find the cause before you start clearing things.
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Read article ›How to add and fix an icon in WordPress
An “icon in WordPress” is usually one of two things: the site icon in the browser tab, or an icon inside your pages and menus. The site icon is a core setting that takes two minutes. Content icons fail quietly, usually because of a Font Awesome version conflict, and fixing them can mean a single toggle or a change to the server.
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Read article ›How to password protect a WordPress page
WordPress can put a password on any page without a plugin. Set Visibility to Password protected and click Update. The page is then hidden behind one shared password that the visitor’s browser remembers, which keeps casual visitors out but does not secure files, custom fields or confidential work.
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Read article ›How to set up htaccess 301 redirects in WordPress
An .htaccess 301 redirect is one line of Apache config. It shares a file with WordPress’s permalink rules, and it only works on servers that read that file. Check the server first, put your rules above the WordPress block, test with a 302, and let one layer handle HTTPS and www.
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Read article ›How to customize a WordPress template safely
How you customize a WordPress template depends on which kind of template is drawing the page: a block template in the Site Editor, a PHP file in a classic theme, a WooCommerce override or a page builder layout. Find out which one you have before you edit anything. Then make the change in a layer that theme updates won’t overwrite, and check the result as a logged-out visitor.
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Read article ›How to add internal links in WordPress
To add an internal link in WordPress, select the words, press Ctrl+K and pick the page. Most links fail for other reasons: a URL copied from the admin screen, a slug that changed later, an anchor that doesn’t match. Get the destination right and test the link on the live page. That is most of the job.
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Read article ›How to add a map widget in WordPress
For one “find us” location, a Google Maps embed pasted into a Custom HTML block needs no plugin and no API key. Plugins earn their place when you need several markers, a store locator or a map in a classic widget area. When a Google-powered plugin map shows a grey box, the cause is almost always the API key, the Google Cloud project, billing or the referrer settings. The theme is rarely the problem.
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