Knowing what possible menu items you have available is important, but depending on where you’re editing menus, those items may not be obvious. Editing from Appearance -> Menus On the desktop Menus screen, possible menu items are on the left, while in mobile mode they’re the first section as you scroll down.
How To Join Two Lists In WordPress
If you have two lists on a WordPress Post or Page, and you need to join them to form a single list, here’s how to do it without re-writing everything. The Lists Are Near One Another If the two lists are close to one another in the text, you can go into Text mode, like this: […]
Find WordPress Help Online
Finding online help with your WordPress site has gotten easier over the years. There are thousands of sites offering tutorials and advice. Here’s a list of the ones I would recommend using. I’m only listing free sites here, but there are many paid support sites, including support sites for paid plugins and themes. Official Help […]
Hosting Account Suspended Because Of Malware
Had an email the other day from a website owner who woke to find this in place of his website and a warning email from his hosting company:
Solve Contact Form 7 Configuration Validator Issues
Properly configuring email forms is not always simple. Contact Form 7 is the most popular WordPress form plugin and, as of version 4.4, an automatic Configuration Validator function was introduced to try and prevent email configuration issues. For the most part, the Validator is straightforward, but there are two validation issues in particular which have confused […]
Should You Update To The Latest Version Of WordPress?
There are two common reactions when self-hosted WordPress users see a message like that: They do nothing, wondering if the update will break something, yet worrying that something bad will happen because they’re not updating. They just hit the button and assume all will be well (hopefully they did a backup first!). In both cases, these users […]
Stop Displaying Your WordPress Username
When people choose a username for WordPress, they often forget that it’s the default for displaying the author name (technically, WordPress displays the nickname, but the nickname defaults to the username). So you end up with situations like this: Now maybe you don’t mind your username showing up publicly, but in most cases it looks unprofessional […]
Click To Enlarge Images In WordPress
Clicking on a small image to see a larger version can be important to website visitors. And displaying the smaller image saves real estate and keeps the page loading fast. But in WordPress, the only built-in function for viewing larger images is to have the visitor taken to a new page or a new browser screen. You can […]
Adding Menus To Widget Areas
WordPress menus are not just for your main navigation. You can add any menu to any widget area by using the custom menu widget:
Menu Items In WordPress Can Have Any Relationship
When working with WordPress menus, any relationships an item might have within WordPress don’t matter. You can place menu items in any relationship you like. For example, if a WordPress page is a sub-page or child of another page, that relationship does not need to be maintained within menus. Under Posts -> Categories, one category […]
Dealing With Long Page Titles On WordPress Menus
Long page titles can be important to help visitors and search engines clearly understand (as well as be intrigued by) what your page is about. But they take up a lot of space on your navigation bar! The WordPress menu system makes it simple to have the best of both worlds, with something called navigation labels. […]