Talking to a customer recently I was asked the question: How do I set the font size? Reviewing the WordPress editor where is the font size selection? The WordPress editor doesn’t include a font size option. Whilst it’s possible to flip into HTML mode on the editor, where appropriate tags can be added, for most […]
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Linking to a Website has Changed in WordPress
With WordPress 4.5 the actions of the link icon to add website links to page content have changed. Prior to WordPress 4.5 clicking on the link icon, opened a dialogue box, cenre page, with options to add the link, select from an existing page or post on the website. With WordPress 4.5 a simplified dialogue […]
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How to Login to a WordPress Website
WordPress websites do not usually include a link to the login page. But without a link to the login, and administration how can you login to your WordPress website? You need to know the address of the admin pages of your website, which is then entered into the address bar of a browser. Since the […]
How to add Google Translate to Your Website
Looking to add language translation to your website, to provide multi language versions of your website? Have you looked at plugins and modules for your CMS website and thought adding translation of the page content and menus overly complicated? Google translate can be added to a website in less than 10 steps and there’s no […]
Error Establishing a Database Connection
Visiting a WordPress website I was momentarily disturbed to see a database connection error warning Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down. Are you […]
Enable Featured Image in Admin
Is your WordPress admin view missing the featured image dialogue block? Editing a new WordPress website with a packaged theme. I found that there was no featured image option on the right of the page. A missing featured image may be caused by a screen option a programming omission Its easy to check the screen […]
Cannot Modify Header Information – Headers Already Sent
Whilst transferring a website to its new hosting space I observed the white screen of death. To understand and correct the error I enabled debugging, selecting the saving to a file method. In the log file I saw that the error was given as [01-Oct-2015 12:40:30 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers […]
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Enable Debug Logging
WordPress supports debugging, either to the web page or to a log file. To enable WordPress debugging edit the file wp-config.php in the root of the website I like to have an entry for each of the following. define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, false); define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false); On a production website, or one publicly visible, its better to […]
How to Edit a WordPress Page
Creating and editing WordPress pages is intended to be simple by design. However, things are only simple when you understand some key principles. Much of WordPress follows a similar pattern. Knowing how to edit pages of your website, gives you the fundamental principles that allow you to edit posts. To begin editing WordPress pages, at […]
Change max Image Upload Size
A quick and simple change to increase the limit on the size of uploaded files. The file to be edited is .htaccess, (note the preceding dot) located in the root of your website. To set the maximum file upload size to 64MB edit the .htaccess file adding: php_value post_max_size 64M The file can be edited […]
