In this article, I’ll show you how to use a plugin to scour the pages of your WordPress website for broken links. Once discovered, you can either fix or delete them. The plugin I’m going to show scans internal links (the ones pointing to your own pages) and external links (the ones pointing to other…
If you want to use WordPress to build a self-hosted website or start a blog, you have a choice of two flavours: WordPress.org and WordPress.com. What are the differences between the two? WordPress.org provides you with the software you need to start a WordPress powered website or build an app. You’ll need to download the…
If you’re running a website on the self-hosted version of WordPress, you probably know how easy it is to break it. You might install a plugin that conflicts with another. You might add or remove code that stops your site functioning properly. You might disable a feature you like simply by switching themes. All of…
Learning how to create your own WordPress website has many benefits. Especially if you’re on a tight budget and can’t afford to hire a professional web designer to do the job for you. A half-decent starter website will cost around $500 and one that creates the wow factor will cost you thousands. But what if…
WordPress is free open-source software used to build websites, blogs and apps. You probably know this already. So let’s take a look at WordPress in a bit more detail. In the web design industry, WordPress is what’s known as a content management system (CMS). It uses a coding language called PHP. Do you need to know…
If you use the default WordPress username – admin – on a self-hosted site, you should seriously consider deleting it as you are potentially leaving your site open to hackers. Don’t worry – you can switch all posts assigned to admin to another user…more on how to do that further down the page. In 2013,…