Short, honest answer: probably not. If you’re picking colors, fonts, and layouts from the Customizer or Site Editor, you don’t need a child theme for WordPress. The advice you see everywhere – “always use a child theme” – is a holdover from 2014, when the only way to change anything was to crack open a…
If you have a WordPress favicon not updating in Google, you aren’t alone. You uploaded a shiny new icon last week, but the search results still show the old one. You cleared your browser cache. You can see the new icon on every tab when you visit your site. But Google still shows the old…
You edited your homepage and hit Update, but your WordPress changes are not showing up. The dashboard says “saved”, but the live site shows the old version – same stale headline, same old image. Take a breath. You didn’t break anything, and your work isn’t lost. When WordPress changes are not showing up on the…
If you’ve searched everywhere and can’t find where to change your WordPress site title, you’re not alone. A forum user just posted about this with the title “bad site title” – they knew it was wrong, they just couldn’t figure out where to fix it. Here’s the thing. The main setting is in one obvious…
Sometimes a page just works better without your site’s header and navigation menu cluttering the top. Landing pages, sales pages, “Link in Bio” pages – they all benefit from a clean, distraction-free layout. And Kadence makes it surprisingly easy to hide the header on one page without touching a single line of code. The toggle…
You followed a tutorial that said “go to Appearance > Customize” – and the link isn’t there. I’ve been in that exact spot, staring at the Appearance menu wondering if I accidentally broke something. You didn’t. WordPress moved things around, and it catches people off guard all the time. If you’re using a block theme…
Your blog page is empty. The posts you wrote last week are gone. It really looks like someone deleted everything. Take a breath. Your posts are almost certainly still there. I’ve watched this happen to 4 different bloggers in the last year, and not once was anything actually missing. The posts were sitting in Posts…
You hit “update” on a plugin, walked away for coffee, and came back to a site that just says “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” You refresh. Still there. You try /wp-admin. Same message. Your site is locked out – visitors can’t read it, and you can’t fix it from the…
Your homepage loads fine, but every other page throws a “404 Not Found” error. Take a breath – your site isn’t broken, and your posts aren’t gone. The fix takes 30 seconds and doesn’t require any code. Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes. That’s it. Most of the time, that one click…
I’ll show you how to set up a Kadence sticky header in under 2 minutes – plus the one design step most tutorials skip that prevents a broken look.