Are you planning to create a self-hosted WordPress site? If yes then before purchasing a hosting for your new site, you should know requirements needed for having a self-hosted WordPress site. Moreover, if you currently have a WordPress site then make sure it meets WordPress requirements. Ignoring these requirements might cost you time, energy and money. So, let’s review hosting requirements needed to run a professional WordPress site.
Category: Tips
WordPress does not send emails. What to do?
WordPress can send emails but sometimes it does not go as smoothly as expected. There are many reasons that can cause WordPress not sending emails. Also, this is one of the most common issues among WordPress users. In this article I would like to share our experience with this issue.
Creating a Contact Page in WordPress
There are a lot of WordPress plugins available that can help to create a contact form for your site. In this post, we want to show you how to add a contact page by using Contact Form 7 plugin. This plugin can manage multiple contact forms and it allows you to customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with a simple markup.
Removing URL Field from the WordPress Comments Form
If you do not want to show the URL field in your comment form then you can easily hide it from your visitor. In this post, you can find a simple snippet that will show you how to remove the URL Field from your WordPress Comments form without modifying it.
Rounding Gravatars in WordPress
The solution is very simple. You don’t need to use any special software to create a rounded Gravatar image. Well, you can but other images will be not rounded (think about the comment section). In order to round all Gravatar images you need to add a few lines of CSS code to your stylesheet and it will do the trick for you. Today, we will show you how to make your WordPress Gravatar images rounded.
Creating a Custom Home Page in WordPress
By default, WordPress shows your recent blog posts on a main home page. But you’ve probably seen a lot of WordPress sites that are using a custom home page instead of a regular blog page. In this post, we’ll show you how to set a custom front page.
Adding a custom CSS to WordPress site
Each theme comes with its own predefined styles but there might be situations when you need to make custom changes to these styles in order to tweak the appearance of your site. Thanks to WordPress flexibility, there are several ways handling custom CSS in your WordPress themes.
Changing a user profile picture in WordPress site
There are two methods to change a profile picture in your WordPress site: using the Gravatar service or using WordPress plugins. We want to show you both methods, so you can decide which one fits you best. In this article, you can find a step-by-step guide on how to display your own profile picture.
Removing Comments from the Specific Post or Page
Sometimes you want to disable the option for your users to submit comments on certain posts or pages. WordPress allows you easily to remove a comment section from the specific post or page without modifying any theme files, adding custom functions or installing plugins. All what you need is just to uncheck a few check boxes and the comment section will be removed.
Google Font Combinations
Thanks to Google we have a free fonts service that currently has over 600+ fonts. It’s really easy to install a new font to your website but sometimes it’s hard to find the right font combination. Below you will find some examples of Google Font combinations that I like.