You updated your theme. Now you see a white screen. You can’t access WP Admin. Your site is locked. When a theme breaks your site, you can’t simply switch it back from the dashboard, because you can’t log in. The solution? Change the active theme directly from your database. This guide shows you how, step […]

WordPress comes with default user roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber. Each has its own set of capabilities. But sometimes you need something custom. A “Premium Member” role. A “Course Student” role. A “Moderator” with very specific permissions. The good news? You can create, assign, and bulk-update custom user roles programmatically, no plugin required. […]

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 […]