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Softaculous is the one-click application installer that puts WordPress, Joomla, Drupal,...

Softaculous is the one-click application installer that puts WordPress, Joomla, Drupal,...

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This guide shows you how to find a piece of text, a link, or an image on your WordPress site and...

This guide shows you how to change the password on the database that your WordPress site uses,...

This guide shows you how to clean up a WordPress media library that has quietly grown out of...

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This guide helps you diagnose and fix the errors that most often take a WordPress site offline:...

This guide shows you how to fix the WordPress upload error that reads "Missing a temporary...

You try to add a file to your WordPress site, the upload runs for a moment, and then it stops...

This guide explains why the search box that comes with WordPress often disappoints, and walks you...

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WordPress runs a large share of the web, and almost everything you do with it starts in the admin...

This guide shows you how to manage the categories on your WordPress site properly: creating them,...

This guide walks you through installing WordPress by hand on your Noiz hosting: downloading the...

This guide shows you how to replace the core program files that run WordPress with a clean,...

This guide walks you through moving an existing WordPress site onto Noiz hosting, whether it...

This guide is a plain-language, deliberately honest tour of how to make a WordPress site work...

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If you have lost access to your WordPress admin account, you can reset the password directly in...

This guide shows you how to reset the file and directory permissions of a WordPress site back to...

This guide shows you how to change the look or behaviour of your WordPress theme without risking...

Incorrect permissions on your directories or files will often cause unexpected behaviour, and can...

This guide shows you how to set up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on a WordPress site hosted with Noiz,...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds a second layer of protection to your WordPress login. Even...

This guide shows you how to make a WordPress site load faster, in plain language and in the order...

This guide shows you how to cut comment and form spam on your WordPress site down to a trickle,...

This guide shows you how to get real work done faster in the WordPress block editor, the standard...

WordPress has a set of privacy tools built into every standard installation, and this guide shows...

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Softaculous is the auto-installer built into your hosting control panel. It takes a web...

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A PHP script stops dead and the page goes blank or shows a fatal error like this: Fatal error:...

Removing a post in WordPress is a two-stage job, and most people only ever do the first stage....

Deleting posts one at a time is fine for a handful. When you are clearing out a demo site,...

Categories are how WordPress groups your posts into topics. This guide shows you how to add a new...

Every WordPress site starts with a single post category called Uncategorized, and every post...

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phpMyAdmin is the web-based manager for MySQL and MariaDB databases that ships with every Noiz...

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When you buy a premium theme, download one from a marketplace, or receive a theme built for you...

Every theme installed on your WordPress site is live PHP code sitting in wp-content/themes,...

Plugins are how a WordPress site gains features it does not ship with: contact forms, SEO tools,...

Not every plugin lives in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Premium plugins bought from a...

Plugins you no longer use are not harmless. Every installed plugin is code sitting on your Noiz...

A plugin has started misbehaving, an update stopped halfway, or a file inside the plugin folder...

If you can still log in to your WordPress site, the quickest and safest way to change your...

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