To jump start your website, just start writing. Your website is hidden from search engines at startup, so you are safe to experiment away. No one will see your edits until you make it live. Even if you are intent…
Is our new default theme, i.e. when you fire up a new site. By all means upgrade to Twenty Twenty Two, if that feels right for you or you fear being left out of the full site editing experience, but…
Twenty Twenty One (TTO from now on) is the default WordPress theme and looks plain and old fashioned, but tailored around the new Block Editor. First off there’s a selection of default colours that are designed with Dark Mode support…
In our setup the default is to discourage search engines. This is to protect you from accidentally publishing your experimental doodles. In our experience many site owners can take many weeks, months, sometimes years to begin work and then finish…
Widgets are blocks that appear outside the content area or a page or post. They include sidebars and footers and in some templates may include multiple positions in the header and above or below it. Footers are useful for boring…
Managing menus is fairly easy, but there are pitfalls due to the flexibility of the options available. You manage menus first by creating a collection or friendly handle/name for your menu. You may want to have a number of menus…
To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer. The customizer provides a key route to modifying many of the website fundamentals, e.g.: Switch template Change colour scheme (template dependent) Change fonts and…
In the default WordPress setup the front page is set to a preset list of posts. Depending on the template you may get a grid of articles, a simple list or an embellished list, with featured images. Some people prefer…
To create a page or a post you will need to be logged in – if you can see the black bar at the top of the screen you are logged in. From there choose New > Page. A static…
While you can easily delete the placeholder content, you can also make it draft – to refer to later. Rather than deal with each post separately – you can do a bulk edit. Select the items to edit, select edit,…
Choosing the right font for the job is pretty easy, scroll down the font list in your customizer until you find the one you like, no? Even professional designers in a hurry might do this, e.g. if doing a quick…