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How to edit your homepage in WordPress
A WordPress homepage can be a static page, a feed of your latest posts, a block theme template, a classic theme file or a page builder layout. Each one is edited in a different place. Find out which one your site uses first and the edit itself is quick. Skip that step and you can spend an hour changing something visitors never see.
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Read article ›How to update a WordPress theme without losing work
Updating a WordPress theme takes one click under Dashboard, then Updates. Nearly everything that goes wrong comes from the site around that click: custom code edited into the parent theme, a license tied to the wrong domain, file permissions, or no way back. Answer three questions before you update and most failures never happen.
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Read article ›How to do SEO on WordPress, step by step
SEO on WordPress comes down to a short list of settings you get right once, a check that those settings reached the live site, and then the slow work of making pages people want. A plugin handles the configuration. It does not rank anything for you, and a green score is not proof that Google can see your pages.
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Read article ›How to check the WordPress version your site runs
If you can log in, go to Tools, then Site Health, then Info, and open the WordPress section. The Version line there is the release you’re running. If you can’t log in, read $wp_version in wp-includes/version.php or run wp core version. Clues you can see from outside, like the generator tag, are often stripped, so a blank result there doesn’t tell you anything.
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Read article ›How to customize a 404 page in WordPress
Where you customize a WordPress 404 page depends on your theme. Block themes use the Site Editor’s 404 template, classic themes use 404.php in a child theme, and a plugin can turn an ordinary Page into the error page. Whichever route you take, the page still has to return a real 404 status code, and it does nothing to fix the broken URLs that send people there.
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Read article ›How to add pages in WordPress and get them seen
Adding a page in WordPress takes a minute: Pages, Add New Page, a title, some blocks, Publish. Getting visitors to it is a separate job. You have to add it to the menu, pick the right template, and on a store, assign it in WooCommerce. Each of those is its own step, and publishing does none of them for you.
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Read article ›How to embed a PDF in WordPress so it actually shows
You can embed a public PDF in WordPress without a plugin: use the File block, turn on “Show inline embed”, set a height and keep the download link. When an embed fails, the cause is usually the file URL, a cache, the page layout or a mobile browser, not the embed tool. Check the raw PDF URL before you switch plugins.
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Read article ›How to edit WordPress in HTML at the right layer
Editing WordPress in HTML starts with finding which layer owns the markup: post content, a block, a theme template, a WooCommerce template or a page builder. Content HTML is a five-minute job in the Custom HTML block. Template, store and file HTML have their own override paths, and editing in the wrong place gets you edits that vanish, get stripped or break the editor.
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Read article ›How to edit pages in WordPress without breaking it
Editing a page in WordPress is four clicks until it isn’t. The hard part is knowing whether the thing you want to change lives in the page, in a template, in a pattern, in a page builder’s own data, or in WooCommerce. This walks through the edit itself, then the checks that tell you whether your change actually reached the live site.
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Read article ›How to build a WordPress drop down list
A WordPress drop down list is not one feature. The phrase covers navigation submenus, form select fields, WooCommerce variation pickers and catalog sorting, and each of those is owned by a different system. Work out which one you have before you change anything, because applying the right fix in the wrong place is the most common way this turns into an afternoon.
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Read article ›WordPress Multisite installation, step by step
Enabling WordPress Multisite takes five steps and about ten minutes. What takes the afternoon is the part nobody writes down: DNS, web server config, wp-config constants and rewrite rules all have to agree, and when they do not, the symptoms point somewhere other than the cause. This is the install sequence, the decisions that come before it, and the order to check things in when a subsite returns a 404.
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Read article ›How to list your WordPress plugins with wp plugin list
WP-CLI puts the noun before the verb, so the command is wp plugin list, not wp list plugin. It prints every installed plugin with its activation status, version and whether an update is waiting, and it exports to CSV or JSON for an audit spreadsheet. The same phrase also gets typed by people who want a list of content on the front end, which is a different job and a different tool.
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