Wordpress

WordPress powers this very site, and over the years it has proven to be a flexible, capable platform once you learn its quirks. Setting things up the way I wanted was not always smooth, though, and I lost more than a few evenings digging through forums for answers. This area exists so you do not have to repeat that search. Here you will find step-by-step tutorials for fixing common WordPress problems and bending the platform to your will. Several of the guides tackle categories, a classic source of frustration, including how to change the category archives, how to change the category URL, and how to remove the category prefix that WordPress adds by default. When something breaks under the hood, like the dreaded mail() function error that quietly stops your site from sending email, I walk you through the cause and a fix that actually holds.