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The WordPress block editor: blocks, patterns and full site editing.
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.
WordPress Tutorials
The Button block links like any other text selection, which is why so many buttons end up saved with no link at all. The fix is knowing when the editor has actually committed the URL.
WooCommerce
Product blocks are not a nicer wrapper around the old shortcodes. They query differently, render differently and extend differently, and that last difference is what catches stores out at checkout.
Themes
Every setting a theme adds is a setting stored in that theme's own options, and lost the day you switch. Option count is a measure of lock-in as much as of flexibility.
Themes
Beginner sites do not fail because the theme was ugly. They fail because the beginner could not undo something. Judge candidates on recoverability, not on how the demo looks.
Themes
News is the rare niche where the theme really is doing the heavy lifting, because the templates are the product. The trap is letting it own the homepage curation as well.