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Step-by-step guides for getting things done in WordPress.
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The site editor, under Appearance, is where a block theme's templates, template parts, styles and patterns all live in one place. It looks like the post editor but edits the frame around your content, not the content itself.
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The Navigation block is the block-theme replacement for the classic Menus screen: it stores a menu as its own post and is edited directly inside a template part.
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The Query Loop block is a visual wrapper around WP_Query: configure filters in a settings panel and WordPress runs the query and repeats an inner set of blocks once per result.
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A synced pattern is the current name for a reusable block: one stored post referenced everywhere it appears, so editing any instance edits all of them at once.
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A block pattern is a saved arrangement of blocks that WordPress inserts as an independent copy, not a live reference — the one distinction that explains everything else about patterns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.