Tag
The WordPress block editor: blocks, patterns and full site editing.
WordPress Tutorials
A shortcode is a string in your content that WordPress swaps for the return value of a PHP function. Understanding that one sentence explains every shortcode bug you will ever hit.
Themes
The bundled Twenty themes are reference implementations, not starter kits. Twenty Twenty-Two split the series into two eras, and knowing which era yours belongs to explains why the customiser is missing.
Themes
Kadence is a light theme with its own header and footer builders and a block library alongside it. That split is the thing to understand: the theme is portable, the blocks are the dependency.
WordPress Tutorials
The word now means three different things: classic widgets, the block-based widget screen, and a page builder's elements. Knowing which one you have explains why the advice you found does not match your screen.
WooCommerce
The new product editing screen replaces the metabox layout with a block-based, tabbed interface. It is faster to work in and it drops third-party metaboxes, which is the whole decision in one sentence.
WordPress Tutorials
A custom post type is one string in the posts table plus a registration call. The arguments you pass decide whether it gets URLs, an archive, REST access and its own templates — and most 404s come from three of them.
Troubleshooting
If the page renders publicly but the editor is empty, your content is safe and the editor is what failed. That distinction decides the entire diagnosis, and it takes one browser tab to establish.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress categories have a name, a slug and a description, and that is all. Every method of giving one an image is a way of storing something core does not store, so pick the cheapest one that fits.
WordPress Tutorials
The calendar built into WordPress cannot show events, and no amount of settings will change that. Knowing what it actually does saves an afternoon of looking for an option that was never there.
WordPress Tutorials
Adding a tag takes two seconds and creates a permanent public archive page. Most blogs have hundreds of those pages holding one post each, and they are a liability, not an asset.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress will happily let you upload a video to your media library. Almost nobody should, and the reasons have nothing to do with disk space.
WordPress Tutorials
Uploading an image takes five seconds; uploading one that does not slow the post down takes about a minute more. The work that matters happens before the file reaches the media library.