Topic
Step-by-step guides for getting things done in WordPress.
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.
WooCommerce
Filters fail in three distinct ways: nothing happens, everything disappears, or the results are wrong. Each points at a different layer — the query, the attribute data, or a cache serving a filtered page to everybody.
WooCommerce
Free shipping is a method inside a zone, gated by a requirement. When it does not appear, the customer's address matched a different zone, the minimum was calculated on a different total, or a cached session is holding an old rate.
WooCommerce
Endpoints like /my-account/orders/ are not real pages — they are rewrite rules on top of one page. When they 404 or render blank, the cause is the rewrite table, a missing shortcode or block, or a page assignment.
WooCommerce
A subscription is a schedule that generates renewal orders. Everything that goes wrong — missed renewals, failed payments, silent cancellations — traces back to the scheduler, the gateway's tokens, or both.
WordPress Tutorials
A staging site is a copy you are allowed to break. Creating one is easy; the parts that go wrong are search engines indexing it, live email going out from it, and pushing changes back over real orders.
WordPress Tutorials
Multisite runs many sites from one codebase and one user table. It is excellent for a network you control end to end, and a poor fit for unrelated client sites — the decision is mostly about who administers what.
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.
Elementor
An example site is a set of decisions someone else made, not a file to download. Learning to read those decisions is worth more than any template kit you can import.
WordPress Tutorials
Losing the admin password does not lock you out of your own site — hosting access does everything wp-admin would have done, and usually does it more reliably.
WordPress Tutorials
By default, every avatar on your site is fetched from a third-party service using a hash of the person's email address. That is a design decision worth making deliberately rather than inheriting.
WordPress Tutorials
The REST API is not an optional add-on you can switch off — the block editor and much of the admin depend on it. The real work is choosing an authentication model and deciding what anonymous callers are allowed to read.