Category: WordPress

Introduction This guide explains how to move your WordPress site to a new web host. You might want to do this to save money on hosting, improve the performance of the site, or take advantage of the features available with another web host. This is a fairly lengthy process, so this guide acts as an […]

Introduction This guide explains how to restore your WordPress site from a backup made using the Duplicator plugin. This will allow you to set up a copy of the site on a new server (e.g. a new hosting service or a test environment). It will also allow you to quickly restore your live site to […]

Introduction This guide explains how to set up a maintenance page on your WordPress site using the Restricted Site Access plugin. This will allow you to restrict public access to your site while you’re making major changes, such as moving your site to a new server. Using a WordPress plugin for a maintenance page will […]

Introduction This guide explains how to backup your WordPress site using the Duplicator plugin. This will allow you to easily restore the site if anything goes wrong, set up a copy of the site on a test environment, or move the site to another server or host. Requirements A WordPress Admin Account. For reference, these […]

Introduction This guide explains how to install a plugin in WordPress using your WordPress Admin site. This allows you to add useful features to your site, such as SEO tools, without any technical knowledge. Plugins can cause unexpected problems, especially if you have multiple other plugins already installed. It’s a good idea to test the […]

Introduction This guide explains how to add a cookie consent banner to WordPress using the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. This helps to make your site compliant with privacy laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Requirements WordPress Admin Account. Skill Level Basic knowledge of WordPress. Instructions More Info WordPress guide to GDPR Cookie […]

Introduction This guide explains how to optimise images on WordPress using the Compress JPEG & PNG images plugin which uses the TinyPNG service. This will reduce the load time of your pages, which will improve user experience and SEO. Lots of similar plugins are available. Smush is one of the most popular, but only provides […]

Introduction This guide explains how to create a WordPress sitemap, add it to robots.txt and submit it to Google Search Console. Sitemaps help search engines to efficiently crawl and index your site. This improves SEO, and will increase the likelihood of your site showing up in search results. Adding your sitemap to robots.txt ensures that […]

Introduction This guide explains how to add your sitemap to the robots.txt file in WordPress using the Yoast SEO plugin. This allows search engines to easily find the sitemap, index your site and show it in search results. If you’ve already submitted your sitemap directly to a search engine (e.g. via Google Search Console), then […]

Introduction These instructions explain how to add Google reCAPTCHA on WordPress using the Contact Form 7 plugin. This will help to prevent the contact forms on your site from generating spam. Requirements WordPress with the Contact Form 7 plugin (version 5.1 or above) installed. If you don’t already have this installed, see How to add […]

Introduction These instructions explain how to add a contact form to WordPress using the Contact Form 7 plugin. This will allow you to easily add a customised contact form and avoid getting spam. Requirements WordPress 4.9 or higher. WordPress Admin account with permission to install Plugins. Skill Level Intermediate knowledge of WordPress. More Info Contact […]

Introduction These instructions explain how to add Google Tag Manager (GTM) to WordPress using the Google Tag Manager for WordPress plugin. This will allow you to easily add and manage a GTM Container on your site which can include Google Analytics tracking code. Requirements WordPress 3.4 or higher running on PHP 5.6 or higher. WordPress […]

Introduction This guide explains how to install the Yoast SEO plugin in WordPress. This will help to improve the SEO of your site, including generating a sitemap. The plugin also includes search engine friendly markup (using https://schema.org/ standards) for FAQs and How To instructions. Requirements WordPress Admin Account. Skill Level Basic knowledge of WordPress. Instructions […]