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Brontë

How to add images to WordPress without slowing down your website

Photos straight off a phone, a camera or a designer’s export are usually four to six thousand pixels wide and several megabytes…

Difficulty
Easy
Time
10-15 mins
Brontë

How to set up WP Rocket, and which settings are safe to turn on

WP Rocket starts caching your website the moment you activate it, with no settings to fill in, and for most small business…

Difficulty
Medium
Time
20-30 mins
Brontë

How to redirect an old page URL after you rename or delete a WordPress page

When you rename or delete a page in WordPress, the old web address stops working, and everyone who follows an old link…

Difficulty
Medium
Time
15-20 mins
Brontë

How to connect your website to Google Search Console and submit your sitemap

To connect your website to Google Search Console, add it as a property at search.google.com/search-console, prove you own it by pasting Google’s…

Difficulty
Medium
Time
20-30 mins
Brontë

How to change where your contact form enquiries are emailed

If enquiries have stopped arriving, the first thing to check is not the form. It is who the form is emailing. That…

Difficulty
Easy
Time
10-15 mins
Brontë

Why you cannot see your changes on your website, and how to clear the cache

If you have edited a page and your website still shows the old version, your work is almost certainly not lost and…

Difficulty
Easy
Time
5-10 mins
Brontë

How to add a new page in WordPress and add it to the menu

Adding a page and adding it to your menu are two separate jobs in WordPress, which is why a page you have…

Difficulty
Easy
Time
15-20 mins
Brontë

How to update your WordPress plugins without breaking your site

Updating WordPress plugins is safe as long as you have a backup you can go back to and you update them one…

Difficulty
Medium
Time
20-30 mins