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” – comes from the days when the only way to change anything was to crack open a .php…
If you have a WordPress favicon not updating in Google, you aren’t alone. You uploaded a shiny new icon, your browser tab shows it, and Google still shows the old one (or a plain globe) next to your search result. Don’t panic. In most cases nothing is broken on your end. Google fetches favicons on…
You changed something in WordPress and hit Save, but your WordPress changes are not showing up. The dashboard says “saved”, but the live site still shows the old version – same old title, same old colors. Take a breath. You didn’t break anything, and your work isn’t lost. When WordPress changes are not showing up…
If you’ve searched everywhere and can’t find where to change your WordPress site title, you’re not alone. A forum user once 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 place….
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 lets you hide the header on one page without touching a single line of code. The toggle is tucked into…
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. In nearly every case, the posts are sitting in Posts > All Posts, right where they always were. The problem is a setting that tells…
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. Here’s the good news, and it’s something most guides leave out. WordPress gives up on maintenance mode…
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 need any code. Go to Settings > Permalinks in your dashboard. Just opening that page rebuilds WordPress’s link rules, and clicking…
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.