8 Annoying Things About Self-Hosted WordPress

It’s Snarky Saturday. This is day 4 of a heat wave, and I don’t do heat well. My neighbors held a noisy birthday party with amplification until after midnight – for a 12 year old! The temperature rose 10 degrees in the first half hour after sunrise. My breakfast eggs were hard to peel. Could there be a better time than this to rant about what’s wrong with WordPress?

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7 Plugins for Every WordPress Site

Which plugins I find indispensable on every WordPress website, and why you won’t find some of the usual suspects on my list.

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Help! A Critical Error Crashed My WordPress Website

If you use the BackWPup plugin and your WordPress website crashed between 11/16/22 and 11/18/22, this post explains how to restore it.

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What is a Link?

In which I reveal the secret of links, illuminating things that may have puzzled or confused you. What is a link, and why does it still go to the old destination after you updated it??

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Screen Options – Customize Your Dashboard Views

Do your WordPress Dashboard screens seem cluttered when you are creating content, or editing other areas of your website? Screen Options can help you streamline the user interface, so you only see the options you need.

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Quick Tip – How to Delete a Theme in WordPress

Deleting extra themes from your self-hosted WordPress installation is a lot less intuitive than it should be. But once you know where to find the "Delete" option, it’s easy.

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Care & Feeding of Your WordPress Website

Hackers love WordPress, and if you don’t keep an eye on your site, they will. This post discusses the 5 essentials to keeping your WordPress website safe and healthy.

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Quick Tip – Browser Page Search

Every web browser includes a "find in page" keyboard shortcut, which can be very handy when you are creating and editing your WordPress content.

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