A 500 Internal Server Error means your server tried to load your site and gave up. Your posts, pages and settings are still there. Something in the chain between the server and WordPress broke, and the error doesn’t say what. The tricky part is that “500” covers 3 different kinds of problem, and most guides…
You open your site and there’s nothing. No header, no error, no message. Just white. This is the WordPress white screen of death, and it’s scary because the page gives you no clue at all. Most guides were written for older WordPress, when every crash gave a blank page. That changed in WordPress 5.2. So…
If your site just turned into a white box that says “There has been a critical error on this website”, take a breath. Your posts, pages, and settings are fine. One plugin or your theme crashed, and WordPress stopped the page before it could break anything else. To write this guide, I crashed my own…
If you just opened your site and saw a plain white box with one sentence – “Error establishing a database connection” – take a breath. Your site isn’t gone. Your posts, pages, and images are still sitting in the database, exactly where you left them. To write this guide, I broke my own test site…
When I first set up my Kadence site, I spent way too long looking for a social icons plugin. Turns out I didn’t need one. Kadence has a built-in Social element baked right into the footer builder, and it covers 56 networks including Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads. The whole…
Every guide to building a football site starts in the wrong place. They open with themes, show you a nice scoreboard layout, and pick a plugin by the end of the first screen. Then you install it and discover the real job: something has to put 285 NFL games, 32 team records and roughly 17,000…
This is part 7 of seven. It covers the 108 Kadence general settings in the General panel, which is where your content width, the sidebar, the back-to-top button, the performance switches and the social link boxes all live. Every default below was read out of Kadence 1.4.5 itself, not copied from the documentation. The official…
This is part 6 of seven. It covers the 45 Kadence colors and fonts settings – the global colour palette, the type scale, and the three button styles the theme ships with. It’s the smallest part of this reference and the one I’d read first. Almost every colour setting elsewhere in Kadence points back at…
This is part 4 of seven. It covers the 100 Kadence footer settings – the three footer rows, the six widget areas, the footer navigation, the social icons and the copyright line at the bottom of every page. The footer is the header’s mirror image. Same builder, same gears, same General and Design tabs. If…
This is part 5 of seven. It covers the 126 Kadence post and page layout settings that decide what a single post looks like, what a page looks like, what your blog archive looks like, what your search results look like, and what happens on a 404. Five sections, and they don’t all live where…
