You hit “Publish” on a brilliant new post. It goes live. You look at your carefully structured blog, and there it is, the tell-tale sign of an oversight. Your post is stamped with “Uncategorized.” It feels sloppy. It hurts your site’s organization, your SEO, and your credibility. That default category is like a weed in […]

A few weeks ago, Automattic released a new plugin in partnership with Archive.org, the famous “library of websites” (and much more). Named “Wayback Link Fixer”, this plugin helps you tackle a very common issue on websites, especially older and larger ones: link rot. Also known as link death or reference rot, link rot is the […]

As you’ve probably noticed, a slow website will make your experience miserable as a visitor of that website. Same goes for the WordPress admin. If you are a website owner and need to wait several seconds on each page load, you will have a problem, as the user experience will be very frustrating and totally […]

It is a rare instance, but sometimes the error message “another update is currently in progress” will display on your screen instead of the update you requested. In most cases, the message will go away by itself after a while, but it could happen that it just stays there. In that case, you should do […]

WP-CLI, short for WordPress Command Line Interface, is a powerful and versatile tool designed to facilitate the management of WordPress websites through the command line. It provides a command-line interface for developers, administrators, and power users to interact with various aspects of their WordPress installations directly from the terminal. With WP-CLI, users can perform a […]

This happens to us quite often at WP Expert. A client comes to us to help with their website, is able to to give us access to the hosting, but has no idea about giving us access to the WordPress admin. In this case, we usually go through the database to add a new admin […]