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Moving your WordPress site can be challenging, especially for beginners. Whether you’re switching to a new hosting provider, creating a staging site for development, or simply wanting a backup, exporting your site is the first crucial step. However, exporting your WordPress site is easier than… Read More »

Trying to manage PDFs on your WordPress site can feel like a real headache. You might need to add a PDF viewer to your site, let users download a post as a PDF, or even automatically generate documents from form entries, but finding the right… Read More »

We’re often asked by beginners: what is VoIP and how does VoIP work? If you’re a non-techy user, then you may have heard that you could use VoIP to add a business phone number for your website. VoIP is a more cost-effective way to get… Read More »

We’ve helped lots of entrepreneurs start their own online boutique shops, and we’ve noticed that most struggle with the same challenges. They feel overwhelmed by technical details, worry about choosing the wrong platform, or don’t know how to attract customers. The good news? Starting an… Read More »

If you’re seeing the “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons” error in WordPress, that means WordPress is blocking you from uploading a file type it doesn’t recognize. We’ve had this trouble a couple of times, and we have some ways to… Read More »

You may have noticed that WordPress’s default PHP mail function is unreliable, and often sends your important emails straight to the spam folder, or even nowhere at all. At WPBeginner, we use an SMTP server to make sure our emails are delivered every time. But… Read More »

Building a thriving online community can transform your website, but most chat solutions create more problems than they solve. Many site owners learn this the hard way when they first start experimenting with chat rooms – every option seems to require expensive monthly payments or… Read More »

If you’re seeing the WordPress critical error message right now, take a deep breath 😮‍💨 — we’ve got you covered. As a team that’s managed WordPress sites for over a decade, we can understand how overwhelming it may feel to new users. Through running WPBeginner… Read More »

When building websites, we often encounter the need to display content from external sources without hosting it ourselves. This is where iFrames shine. Whether you’re embedding a video, a map, or a third-party application, iFrames provides a seamless way to integrate external content into your… Read More »

Normally, you can make a WordPress backup of your content and save it on your computer. However, these backups are not readable or easy to share without installing WordPress again. Another simple approach is to save your articles and landing pages on your computer. This… Read More »