Category Archives: WordPress Basics

How to backup your blog

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One of the most common technical questions about blogging is “how do I backup my blog?”. Unfortunately, one of the biggest mistakes to make, is not to! So this week, I’m going to show you how to backup your blog. … Continue reading →

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Why you might need to manually edit a permalink

Posted on on by Graham Tappenden

Not everyone blogs in English.  I myself sometimes come across problems when writing posts in German, that English-language bloggers don’t have to cope with.  One of them concerns special characters not appearing in the Permalink. Here is an example.  If … Continue reading →

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Linking pictures to themselves

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By default, when you upload an image to use in a post, WordPress will link this to the image itself. This may appear to be useful, because clicking on a re-scaled image can open the unscaled version.  But then the … Continue reading →

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