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Step-by-step guides for getting things done in WordPress.
WordPress Tutorials
It is a theme file that runs on every request, front end and admin alike. That single fact explains where it lives, why a typo locks you out, and why most snippets do not belong in it.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress does this without a plugin, in about fifteen seconds. What matters is knowing exactly what that protection covers, because it does not cover the images on the page.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress owns seven lines of this file and regenerates them on demand. Everything else in it was put there by you, a plugin or the host, and that distinction is the whole troubleshooting method.
WordPress Tutorials
Dropdown means two unrelated things in WordPress: a nested navigation submenu, and a select list of categories or archives. Knowing which one you want saves the afternoon.
WordPress Tutorials
Two separate jobs get conflated here: putting a certificate on the server, and telling WordPress to use it. The second one is where sites break, and a plugin only papers over it.
WordPress Tutorials
A footer comes from one of four places, and every wasted hour on this task is spent editing the wrong one. Identify the source first, then the change takes two minutes.
WordPress Tutorials
A revision is an ordinary row in the posts table with a different post type. That explains what it saves, what it silently omits, and why the database bloat panic is usually overstated.
WooCommerce
A dropshipping plugin moves data between your store and a supplier. Every hard part of dropshipping — margins, stock you do not control, delivery times, returns — sits outside what any plugin can fix.
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.
WordPress Tutorials
WP-Cron is not a scheduler. It is a queue checked when somebody visits your site, which explains every scheduled post that never published and every backup that silently stopped running.
WooCommerce
Core stock control is a number that goes down when an order is placed. Everything that makes inventory hard — variations, bundles, multiple channels, returns — is what happens around that number.
WordPress Tutorials
AMP was a bargain: accept a restricted subset of the web and get a speed guarantee plus preferential placement. The placement went away, the restrictions did not, and that changes the answer.