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Step-by-step guides for getting things done in WordPress.
WordPress Tutorials
The mobile app is a writing and moderation tool, not a pocket-sized wp-admin. Most of the frustration around it comes from one thing: the difference between a WordPress.com account and a self-hosted site.
WordPress Tutorials
Hosting accounts hold several databases with machine-generated names and no label saying which site owns which. Identifying the right one is the entire job; the deletion itself takes a second and cannot be undone.
WordPress Tutorials
Removing a domain from hosting is reversible in an afternoon. Letting the registration lapse is not reversible at all, and the two are separated by about three clicks in most control panels.
WordPress Tutorials
A WordPress install is three things in three places: files, a database, and a domain pointing at them. Remove one and forget the others and you are left with debris that quietly costs you money or leaks data.
WordPress Tutorials
Deleting the install, cancelling the hosting and giving up the domain are three separate actions that people perform by accident while trying to do one of them. Decide which you actually want first.
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
The installation is routine. The decision that actually matters is whether the blog lives at /blog or at blog.yourdomain.com, and it is much harder to change afterwards than to get right now.
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
Pasting the ad code is the easy part. Ads are the most reliable way to destroy a blog's layout stability, and the damage is done by placement decisions, not by the snippet.
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.