You just spent 20 minutes tweaking your colors, fonts, and header layout in the Kadence Customizer. You hit “Publish.” And… nothing happens. Your changes vanish. Or you get a vague “Looks like something’s gone wrong” message that tells you absolutely nothing useful. I’ve been there. For this update I went further than troubleshooting from memory:…
You’ve built your site, everything looks great – and then you scroll to the bottom and see a big strip of white space in or below your footer. You didn’t put it there. There’s nothing in the Customizer that says “add weird gap at the bottom.” And yet, here it is. I’ve hit this exact…
Out of the box, Kadence doesn’t give you a sidebar at all. Posts open on the “Narrow” layout and pages on “Normal” – both single-column. That catches out anyone expecting the classic blog look. Maybe you want one on the right, maybe on the left, or maybe you just need the one you’ve already turned…
When I picked my first WordPress theme, I went in circles for two weeks. I’d find one I liked, install it, hate the colors, uninstall it, find another, install that, hate the header, uninstall it. Every demo looked perfect. None of them looked perfect once I tried to make them mine. The official WordPress theme…
Your WordPress site isn’t slow because of WordPress. It’s slow because of one – or more – of 6 specific things. And most of them take under 10 minutes to fix. I’ve sped up over 30 sites over the years, and the answer is almost never “buy a better host.” It’s usually something simpler. The…
Last month I clicked something called “Editor” inside the Appearance menu of a 4-year-old classic theme. I just wanted to see what it did. 30 seconds later, my header had lost its logo, the sidebar had moved to the bottom of the page, and the Customizer settings I’d spent an afternoon adjusting were no longer…
Google rewrites your meta description about 70% of the time. So why bother writing one at all? Because when Google does use yours, a well-written description can double your click-through rate. And the 30% of searches where Google keeps your original tend to be the ones that matter most – branded queries, long-tail keywords, and…
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…