WordPress

Running WordPress on Noiz hosting: installation, admin tasks, plugins and themes, performance, security and troubleshooting.

50 guides in this section.

Debunking Common WordPress Security Myths This guide separates WordPress security fact from fiction. A handful of persistent myths lead site owners to spend...

Fix Contact Form 7 Not Working With All-In-One Security (AIOS) in WordPress If Contact Form 7 stops working on your WordPress site, hangs after a visitor clicks Send, or fails with a server...

How to Accept Payments on Your WordPress Site This guide shows you how to take real money from visitors on your WordPress site: a one-off card payment, a donation,...

How to Add a New Category in WordPress Categories are how WordPress groups your posts into topics. This guide shows you how to add a new category, what each...

How to Add a New WordPress Admin User via phpMyAdmin If you are locked out of your WordPress dashboard and cannot use the normal password-reset email, you can create a...

How to Bulk Delete Posts in WordPress Deleting posts one at a time is fine for a handful. When you are clearing out a demo site, stripping an imported blog...

How to Bulk Find and Replace Content in WordPress This guide shows you how to find a piece of text, a link, or an image on your WordPress site and replace it...

How to Change a WordPress Account Password If you can still log in to your WordPress site, the quickest and safest way to change your password is from the...

How to Change Your WordPress Database Password This guide shows you how to change the password on the database that your WordPress site uses, safely, on your Noiz...

How to Change Your WordPress Display Name and Nickname Your WordPress display name is the name the public sees. It appears as the author byline on posts, next to your...

How to Clean Up Your WordPress Media Library This guide shows you how to clean up a WordPress media library that has quietly grown out of control: removing images...

How to Create a Custom WordPress Design Without Coding This guide shows you how to design and customise the look of your WordPress site without writing any code. It covers...

How to Deactivate and Delete a WordPress Plugin Plugins you no longer use are not harmless. Every installed plugin is code sitting on your Noiz hosting account, and...

How to Delete a Post in WordPress Removing a post in WordPress is a two-stage job, and most people only ever do the first stage. Sending a post to the...

How to Delete a WordPress Theme Every theme installed on your WordPress site is live PHP code sitting in wp-content/themes, whether it is active or...

How to Delete Categories in WordPress Categories pile up quickly. A theme demo installs a handful, a plugin adds its own, someone creates a duplicate with...

How to Disable wp-cron.php and Use a System Cron in WordPress WordPress runs its scheduled tasks (publishing scheduled posts, checking for updates, clearing transients, and...

How to Email Your Registered Users in WordPress This guide explains how to email the people who have registered on your WordPress site, whether you call them...

How to Find Your WordPress Login URL Every WordPress site has a private sign-in page where you enter a username and password to manage it, and this guide...

How to Fix Common WordPress Errors This guide helps you diagnose and fix the errors that most often take a WordPress site offline: the white screen of...

How to Fix the 'Missing a Temporary Folder' Error in WordPress This guide shows you how to fix the WordPress upload error that reads 'Missing a temporary folder.' You usually...

How to Fix the 'Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted for Security Reasons' Error You try to add a file to your WordPress site, the upload runs for a moment, and then it stops with a red message:...

How to Force Reinstall or Update a WordPress Plugin Without Losing Data A plugin has started misbehaving, an update stopped halfway, or a file inside the plugin folder has been edited or...

How to Improve WordPress Search This guide explains why the search box that comes with WordPress often disappoints, and walks you up a ladder of ways...

How to Install a WordPress Plugin Plugins are how a WordPress site gains features it does not ship with: contact forms, SEO tools, backups, caching,...

How to Install a WordPress Theme from the Dashboard A WordPress theme controls how your site looks: the layout, fonts, colours and the styling of every page. Installing...

How to Log In to the WordPress Dashboard WordPress runs a large share of the web, and almost everything you do with it starts in the admin dashboard: writing...

How to Manage WordPress Categories the Right Way This guide shows you how to manage the categories on your WordPress site properly: creating them, renaming them,...

How to Manually Install a WordPress Plugin From a Zip File Not every plugin lives in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Premium plugins bought from a developer, plugins built...

How to Manually Install a WordPress Theme From a ZIP File When you buy a premium theme, download one from a marketplace, or receive a theme built for you by a designer, it...

How to Manually Install WordPress This guide walks you through installing WordPress by hand on your Noiz hosting: downloading the software, creating a...

How to Manually Reinstall WordPress Core This guide shows you how to replace the core program files that run WordPress with a clean, official copy, without...

How to Migrate a WordPress Site to Noiz Hosting This guide walks you through moving an existing WordPress site onto Noiz hosting, whether it currently lives on...

How to Optimise WordPress for AI Search (llms.txt and GEO) This guide is a plain-language, deliberately honest tour of how to make a WordPress site work well with AI search:...

How to Remove Sample Posts, Pages and Comments From WordPress Every fresh WordPress installation ships with a small set of placeholder items: one sample post, one sample comment,...

How to Rename the Default Uncategorized Category in WordPress Every WordPress site starts with a single post category called Uncategorized, and every post published without a...

How to Reset a WordPress Admin Password via phpMyAdmin If you have lost access to your WordPress admin account, you can reset the password directly in the site database...

How to Reset WordPress File and Directory Permissions This guide shows you how to reset the file and directory permissions of a WordPress site back to safe, working values...

How to Safely Edit Your WordPress Theme This guide shows you how to change the look or behaviour of your WordPress theme without risking your live site. It...

How to Set Up Google Analytics 4 on Your WordPress Site This guide shows you how to set up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on a WordPress site hosted with Noiz, so that you can see...

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in WordPress with All-In-One Security (AIOS) Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds a second layer of protection to your WordPress login. Even if your password is...

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site This guide shows you how to make a WordPress site load faster, in plain language and in the order that actually gets...

How to Stop Comment and Form Spam in WordPress This guide shows you how to cut comment and form spam on your WordPress site down to a trickle, using a layered...

How to Use the WordPress Block Editor Efficiently This guide shows you how to get real work done faster in the WordPress block editor, the standard editor that opens...

How to Use WordPress Built-in Privacy Tools WordPress has a set of privacy tools built into every standard installation, and this guide shows you how to use them...

How to Write and Publish Your First Blog Post in WordPress Writing your first blog post is one of the more satisfying moments in setting up a new website. This guide walks you...

Practical Ways to Use AI with WordPress This guide is a practical, plain-language tour of the useful ways you can put artificial intelligence to work on a...

When to Replace an Outdated or Abandoned WordPress Plugin This guide helps you decide when an outdated WordPress plugin has become a liability worth replacing, and how to...

WordPress Cookies and Consent: Staying Privacy-Compliant This guide explains what cookies and trackers your WordPress site really sets, how to find them, and how to put a...

WordPress Security Checklist WordPress powers a large share of the web, which makes it a constant target for automated attacks. The checklist...