Comment sections are often seen as a standard feature for websites and blogs. They can be great for engagement and provide vital feedback about your content, but they also require good management and moderation.

Whether you’ve decided to allow them on your posts or not, it’s essential that you know how to implement, manage, and disable comments in WordPress. To help you become a pro at WordPress comment settings, we’ve put together an extensive guide that covers what comments are, where to find them, how to manage them, and how to prevent comment spam. We also give our top picks for the best WordPress comment plugins.

Videos are a fantastic way to communicate with your visitors and boost engagement, and they’re becoming increasingly common on websites. In fact, Social Media Week reported that videos will soon make up 82 percent of worldwide internet traffic.

Many people decide to use a plugin to add videos to their site, but a quick search of the plugin repository will reveal a huge array of options.

To help you choose the best way to display videos on your website, we’ve examined the best video plugins for WordPress and compared them based on their features, pros and cons, ease of use, and pricing. 

The wp-config.php file is the heart of your WordPress installation, but for many, it’s a source of fear. A single wrong character can bring your site down. Yet, mastering this file is the key to unlocking advanced security, boosting performance, and troubleshooting some of the most frustrating WordPress errors.

This guide is a practical, hands-on manual from years of experience. We’ll show you precisely what to edit, why you should edit it, and how to do it safely without breaking your site.

One of the best parts of using WordPress is that you’re free to choose from thousands of themes. Even better, you can fully customize your chosen option, right down to modifying its code. But if you’re going to make significant changes to a theme, you’ll need to know how WordPress child themes work.

A child theme is a “copy” that you can use to add any customizations to a WordPress theme. Using a child theme prevents you from losing your custom settings if you update the parent theme (which should happen often!).

In this guide, we’ll explain what a WordPress child theme is and when to use it. We’ll then show you how to create a child theme in WordPress step by step, customize it, and more.