https://wpshout.com/category/using-wordpress/ A hub for advanced WordPress users, developers & savvy business owners. Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:56:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://wpshout.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cropped-main-icon1x-32x32.png https://wpshout.com/category/using-wordpress/ 32 32 https://wpshout.com/gutenberg-background-image-cover-block/ https://wpshout.com/gutenberg-background-image-cover-block/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:55:51 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?post_type=quick_guide&p=20874 While overall opinions on the Gutenberg editor vary, even the naysayers can't deny that there are so many elements you can add now with just the core WordPress blocks that you couldn't before. One of those elements is a background cover image. Not only is there a dedicated "cover block" solely made for this purpose, but it only takes a minute to add it to your posts. In this guide I'll show you how to do it and also how to customize it.]]> https://wpshout.com/gutenberg-background-image-cover-block/feed/ 0 Background Image Cover in WordPress https://wpshout.com/wordpress-change-default-category/ https://wpshout.com/wordpress-change-default-category/#comments Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:38:06 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?post_type=quick_guide&p=10723 So you launched a new WordPress site, wrote your first post, and published it. Then shortly afterwards you realized that it was automatically tagged as "uncategorized." We've all been there before - myself included. There's a way to change this though and in this quick tutorial I am going to show you how to do it.]]> https://wpshout.com/wordpress-change-default-category/feed/ 5 How to Change Default Category in WordPress (Quick and Easy) By default, posts in WordPress are marked as "Uncategorized." Instead of manually changing it every time you can change the default category. change your default category Change Default Category in WordPress https://wpshout.com/wordpress-gutenberg-html/ https://wpshout.com/wordpress-gutenberg-html/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:36:42 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?post_type=quick_guide&p=21254 The Gutenberg block editor has close to 100 default blocks available for use. However, there are still situations where you might want to add a feature to your post that's simply not available via the default blocks. That's where custom HTML comes to the rescue! In this quick guide, I'm going to show you how you can use the HTML block along with Claude (a freemium AI tool) to customize your own posts.]]> https://wpshout.com/wordpress-gutenberg-html/feed/ 1 Add custom HTML to WordPress https://wpshout.com/wordpress-brand-survey/ https://wpshout.com/wordpress-brand-survey/#respond Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:12:04 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=144639 Over the past few years, we have seen increased efforts to better position and market the WordPress brand. Along with these efforts, we now have a Brand Writing Style Guide that defines how the WordPress voice should sound and what tone it should convey. The brand book was first created in August 2018 and has undergone several updates since then. It serves as a manual for all marketing messages, campaigns, and communication from WordPress.]]> https://wpshout.com/wordpress-brand-survey/feed/ 0 WordPress Brand Tone and Voice Survey https://wpshout.com/problems-with-niche-wordpress-themes/ https://wpshout.com/problems-with-niche-wordpress-themes/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:51:39 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=144556 Recently, I was working on a rewrite of one of our theme list posts and in the process I tested over 30 themes. By the end, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that the majority were junk. My gut feeling was that the "shiny cover, empty box" syndrome I encountered was more widespread than only the niche I worked on. So I decided to fire up a test instance of WordPress and went through 31 additional themes in a separate niche. These are the results of my research.]]> https://wpshout.com/problems-with-niche-wordpress-themes/feed/ 4 I Spent 20 Hours Testing 60+ Niche WordPress Themes https://wpshout.com/how-to-link-to-page-content-from-a-wordpress-navigation-menu/ https://wpshout.com/how-to-link-to-page-content-from-a-wordpress-navigation-menu/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:54:59 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?post_type=quick_guide&p=15539 Do you want to create a WordPress link that takes readers directly to a specific section of a page? As in, it can be a section anywhere in the middle of the page – not only the start of it. There’s an easy way to do that in WordPress. 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